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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. . . .
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The dashing band of mavericks introduced in The Ransom of Black Stealth One must hunt down and destroy an even deadlier aircraft this time: an unmanned, laser-armed vehicle with the ability to target an individual victim. To combat this threat, the U.S. government secretly engages pilot Kyle Corbett, aging, ill and still on the run from the law. He is accompanied by Petra Leigh, quite possibly the world's most beautiful stress analyst, and the two of them are assisted by mechanic-pilot buddy Raoul (Speedy) Medina. Opposing them is the wonderfully villainous scientist, Roland Clement, who loses no time in demonstrating that his deadly airship is a masterfully designed assassination tool. From the first pages, readers will be caught up in a suspenseful, romantic and gloriously improbable story in which the airships are the technical stars while the humans provide derring-do that Indiana Jones would envy. Corbett's confrontations with his own mortality and the extremely implausible climax are minor setbacks. A more serious deterrent to new readers is the assumption that readers will be familiar with the characters and their dilemmas. However, since these are among the liveliest aero-adventures around, readers may want to lay in a supply of the earlier books as well. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
High-tech thriller--sequel to the paperbacks The Ransom of Black Stealth One and The Nemesis Mission--featuring deadly, whisper-quiet, virtually undetectable UFO-like Stealth aircraft. Here, the French scientist and aircraft expert Roland Clement has invented a tiny robot plane, equipped with killer lasers, capable of seeking out and assassinating any previously identified target; he has sold his services to the Syrians, who call his plane a ``djinni'' and regard it with superstitious dread. Having perfected the device, Clement decides to make lots of money by selling his service to Colombian drug barons. For his first contract, he smuggles into the USA a nuclear-powered djinni fitted with a powerful UV laser. Fortunately, the NSA and researcher Ben Ullmer are aware of the djinni. By sheer luck, Clement runs into one of the NSA's operatives. But how to stop Clement, or even identify his targets? A cat-and-mouse game develops while the NSA try to catch up with the elusive Clement--still backed by his bemused Syrian sponsors--and the megalomaniac Clement grows ever more unpredictable and dangerous. Credible and entertaining, especially for fans of the previous books, and a definite improvement over The Big Lifters (1988).
Library Journal Review
This follow-up to Ing's earlier novel, The Ransom of Black Stealth One ( LJ 8/89), features many of the same contrived characters. It also resembles its predecessor in its use of a technologically improbable vehicle in an implausible plot--which, unfortunately, is nearly identical to the earlier novel as well. Both books deal with the theft of top-secret stealth aircraft, which are then set loose in the United States. Recommended only for libraries with a large number of fans of The Ransom of Black Stealth One ; presumably, they might be interested in a sequel as silly as the original.-- Jim Cunningham, Illinois Mathe matics & Science Acad., Aurora (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.