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A Crazed
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A Crazed
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| Meet the Boss Camelus-Whitus, affectionately known as BBQ to
the genetic engineers at Boston Bio, Brainchild of the beautiful but
sociopathic Dr. Judith White, this homely, sad-eyed creature is a
bio-masterpiece of gene splicing, and billed as the world's most promising
new food source. A bungled kidnapping of the BBQ by animal rights activists results in the unfortunate discovery that these slow, silly-looking creatures might actually be bloodthirsty killers. Vicious man-eaters or docile darlings? Chiun wants one for a pet and Remo's getting real bad vibes about the sinister secrets behind the whole BBQ thing, especially he's been selected as the prime stud material in a madwoman's brilliant plot to send the human race out to lunch...permanently.
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My comments....
A follow-up on Killer Chromosomes , this story brings a new twist to Remo - some hidden fears relating to an earlier exploit. Overall I liked the story. It tied in well to earlier books (the Chromosome thing, the fish tanks in the basement), but I missed the interplay, ie, humor between Remo and Chiun. I miss the good old days where Remo explained baseball to Chiun (and that the prize was not the "baseball diamond" - as in jewel).
My biggest complaint - Remo is too damn smart. 100 books took care in pointing out - or taking advantage of the fact - that he was not the brightest bulb in the chandelier! When Remo makes comments like "That's a tortured exercise in semantics" I wonder what's going on! When he looks at a computer screen and recognizes a couple of the formulas from high school chemistry, I stare in horror at the page.
Plus, if Remo has such a deep fear of his near fatal brush with the previous DNA types, how could he - and Chiun - miss the connection here. Chiun rarely misses anything - while Remo may be slow, I can't see him missing the obvious for so long - especially since it almost killed him years earlier.
Sure, as time marches on, Remo should gain some gray matter - but not overnight. Smith even made a "mental comment" to himself in an earlier book, basically stating that the pill used to simulate Remo's death at the fake execution caused some brain damage - and that he hoped Chiun never discovered the fact! OK, so Sinanju can cure brain damage - but give Remo training in symantecs - especially Western symantecs??
Bottom line - A good read, but the old Remo and Chiun are fading away.
Note the new cover design - no more "created by":
Now it's just a footnote on the bottom of the page:
