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Butcher Bird

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The Butcher Bird weaves an intriguing mystery tale that holds the reader's attention until the plot is revealed. The story is not for the "faint at heart" as it reveals the shadow side of human nature. However, for those who want to hunker down with a mind-tingling search to solve a strange murder, the Butcher Bird captures the imagination. A good backpacking book to carry along and absorb your thoughts away from the hum-drum workaday world. nancydale@yahoo.com

In the Butcher Bird, a group of foreign nationals, led by a brilliant but frustrated Aerospace Design Genius, and a talented Software Engineer develop an incredible weapon. This weapon, designed to loiter in an area, searching for a target, and instantly dispatching the target, without detection. When the CIA finds out about the scheme, they call upon a high tech aerospace thinktank to design a similar weapon, and find it's weakness's. Using beyond state of the art tactics, the team develop a profile to prevent a national disaster

Dean Ing is a competent writer, but for some reason fell short with this novel. Butcher Bird is about an embittered aerospace engineer with an inflated ego and his Syrian funded creation, a technological marvel for assassins, using "Black" stealth technology and a miniature nuclear power source. The villain uses his "Butcher Bird" to knock off top aerospace researchers he feels have slighted him in some way in the past. The hero of the book, a nearly-flawless, middle-aged man with a practically teen-aged lover, single handedly tries to rescue the world from this mad scientist. I found Butcher Bird to be an entertaining, but, in the end, disappointing story. It starts with a bang and goes out with an unrealistic, overly contrived fizzle