Savant [Paperback]

Rex Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1994

He is 500 pounds of bone-grinding mayhem that walks like a man, drools like a baby, and kills like an animal. Imagine the brilliant, bent mind of an idiot savant of savage death, and the brutal soul that drives an unstoppable butcher. "Miller has created the quintessential killer".--R. Patrick Gates.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Pocket; First Edition edition (July 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671748483
• ISBN-13: 978-0671748487
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,085,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A hero for the hounds!, August 19, 1997

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This review is from: Savant (Paperback)

This is another book review by Wolfie and Kansas, the boonie dogs from Toto, Guam. Rex Miller's novel "Savant" is the third in a series featuring Daniel "Chaingang" Bunkowski. Chaingang is a 450-pound serial killer with a genius IQ, a mastery of explosives, and the ability to use halitosis as a martial art.

In our review of the second Chaingang novel, which was entitled "Chaingang", we noted that Daniel Bunkowski was almost a tragic hero, rather than a villain. He had been an abused child, whose only friend was an equally abused dog. As a result, many of the adult Chaingang's chosen victims were people who had abused dogs. In the book "Chaingang", however, a majority of Chaingang's victims were innocent people who got in his way through random bad luck. In "Savant", Chaingang has become more moral and more focused. The vast majority of the many people that Chaingang blows up, dismembers, chainwhips, shoots, crucifies, and/or eats in "Savant" are abusers of animals. Chaingang takes care of these miscreants while the book builds towards a showdown between him and a mass murdering sniper. (Readers may notice that the sniper utters a line later stolen by Cyrus the Virus in the movie "Con Air".)

Now that Chaingang has done a "face turn" from random serial killer to animal rights vigilante, we wonder why he remains so obscure. Where is "Chaingang: The Movie"? When will Marvel Comics publish a Chaingang/Punisher team-up? When will Disney produce an animated feature, "101 Dalmations, Part 2: Chaingang vs. Cruella DeVille"