Karem went bankrupt trying to sell his concept to the military, but his designs and inventions were saved, and he and his team were hired, by a pair of bold entrepeneur brothers, Neal and Linden Blue, who were also aviators. The dramatis personae begins with Abraham Karem, a genius engineer at Israel Aircraft Industries who quit to build UAVs, emigrated to the United States and then used his Los Angeles garage to design a drone that could stay in the air 10 times longer than any previous unmanned aircraft.
Most were iconoclasts, resisted at nearly every turn by the very institutions that later fell in love with this new technology. They shared their stories with me, in some cases letting me interview them for more hours than a Predator can fly. The Predator was invented and transformed into a world-changing technology by a cast of characters no novelist could conjure up. But as I found out in five years of research and hundreds of interviews, this extraordinary weapon didn’t start out that way, and it wasn’t created by the much-maligned military-industrial complex.
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