What no one could have imagined was that mankind would conceive of the simplest weapon ever deployed - one with extinction power - to launch from space. The military named this weapon "Rods from God." And yet, it's not nuclear, biological, or chemical.
Two women drone pilots battle in outer space to defend their country. One is a former fighter pilot who, after a crash, now flies from a wheelchair.
This dynamic female drone crew from Nashville, Tennessee, now based in Florida, is drafted to defend the United States from a rogue military element threatening to use force to overthrow the government. Their weapons are twenty-foot tungsten rods. A single rod dropped from orbit would strike Earth at ten times the speed of sound with the impact of a nuclear weapon. As weapons are readied, our heroines find they are Beyond Visual Range.
M. Thomas (Tom) Collins is one of the pioneer entrepreneurs of the information technology industry. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ALM publication Law Technology News for his contribution to the use of technology in the legal services community. Citytech, a London-based publication, called him an "outstanding individual and visionary" when he was named as one of the Top 100 Global Tech Leaders.
Although retired from the commercial world, he continues to write and speak on leadership and management as well as pen his series of Mark Rollins adventure mysteries.
Tom Collins writes from his home in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Music City, Nashville, where his characters come to life and frequent familiar places in the bucolic middle Tennessee landscape. Beyond Visual Range is the sixth book in his Mark Rollins series of mysteries.