The Genius of Caleb Donovan: The Untouchable Drone - Softcover

Smith, Jackie L.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798996054336

Verlag: Jackiie L. Smith, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Caleb Donovan is fifteen years old. He lives on Sycamore Street in Rusk Falls, Ohio, a town that used to make steel and doesn’t make much of anything anymore. He builds things in his garage at night, alone, because he can’t stop thinking about the problem in front of him.
The problem is simple. Every machine that flies and dodges works by reacting — it sees the threat and moves. But reacting is always too slow. Caleb wants to build something that doesn’t have to react at all--something that reads the intention before the hand moves--something that is never where you’re going to be.
In seven weeks, in a cold garage, with parts ordered online, he figures it out.
He calls it the Somersault. He takes it to the regional science fair. Three hundred people try to catch it. Nobody can. Four cell phones are filming. By the next morning, eleven million people have watched the video, and the most valuable idea on earth is loose in the world.
Caleb’s father, Jonathon, watches the video alone in a basement. He spent nine years in Washington as a national security lawyer. He knows exactly what his son has built. He drives home too fast.
What follows is eleven days that will change everything. A foreign intelligence operative who works for the highest bidder. A young woman sent by a country at war, with a sister growing up in the sound of artillery. A corporate fixer who never breaks any laws and never takes any risks. The FBI, building a wall around a boy who is too smart to hide and too important to lose. And Jonathon Donovan, building a different kind of wall — the lawyer’s wall, brick by brick, late at night, while his family sleeps.
Caleb carries the secret. He goes to school. He eats lunch with Buggs. He walks Barbara partway home. He doesn’t tell anyone. He laughs for all of them anyway, because that is who he is, and stopping would have been a flag.
The Genius of Caleb Donovan: The Untouchable Drone is a story about a boy who built something extraordinary, and a family that decided what to do about it.

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Jackie L. Smith - known to most as Jack - is a retired United States Navy veteran whose service spanned two decades, from 1959 to 1979. He went to sea aboard aircraft carriers, crossed the Atlantic for hunter-killer training with the Sixth Fleet, served with helicopter squadrons, and traveled to ports from Boston to Quebec City to the Mediterranean. While on active duty he earned a bachelor's degree from Chaminade University in Honolulu and later a master's degree from Central Michigan University. After retiring from the Navy he spent eight years running a specialized hospital for the State of Oklahoma, then served another twenty years as a civilian with the United States Air Force, retiring in 2009 after more than four decades of public service.He began writing novels in his eighties.What started as a single book has become ten - thrillers, family crime stories, time-travel adventures, and portal fantasies. His novels draw on the institutional life he knew firsthand: the chains of command, the loyalty between brothers in arms, the quiet weight of doing the right thing when it costs you something. He writes about ordinary people who get pulled into extraordinary trouble, and the kind of stubborn integrity that gets a man through it.Jack lives in Staffordsville, Kentucky. He collects stamps, repairs computers, plays a lot of FreeCell, and believes every good story needs a dog in it.

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• Verlag: Jackiie L. Smith
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798996054336
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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