Fiction

Butcher Bird

Name: Butcher Bird
Author: Dean Ing
ISBN: 9780812522419

by Dean Ing

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Overview

An Iraqi garrison commander in Mosul collapses, dying in convulsions. A Kurd leader dies the same way a week later in Al Qimishli, Syria. A Sunni leader in Aleppo, Syria and a Shiite near Damascus follow suit. One by one, the opponents of Syria's Assad are biting the dust. Their killer? A nuclear-powered terminator flying high and swift, a tiny stealthy bird that carries death behind its eyes. You can't see it. You can't hear it. But it knows you. And now the bird's creator has an agenda of his own. He is bringing his killer to America and starting it off on his own enemies list. Only Ben Ullmer, an aerosystems engineer contacted by the NSA, can uncover the destroyer's design, capabilities, and maker. But first he must enlist the man who stole Black Stealth One in the battle to stop the world's most devastating aircraft.

A novel of international intrigue--the sequel to Ing's New York Times bestselling The Ransom of Black Stealth One. A Butcher Bird is loose in the United States. It flies silent. It is too small to be detected by radar. It flies too high to be seen with the naked eye. And it carries a laser generator that can fire a beam precisely enough to boil a specific human brain in seconds. . . .

About the Author, Dean Ing

Dean Ing has worked as a USAF interceptor crew chief, a senior research engineer in the aerospace industry, a builder and driver of sports-racing cars, and a university professor. He has a doctorate in communications theory. Ing is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Ransom of Black Stealth One, The Nemesis Mission, and The Skins of Dead Men. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.