Savant

Rating:
Summary: A hero for the hounds!
Review: 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"

Rating:
Summary: A hero for the hounds!
Review: 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"