Chaingang

by Rex Miller

Book Overview

The man is a hulk of angry, flabby, flesh, housing a genius intelligence that is ever inventing new and twisted ways to inflict pain on others. Torturing and killing innumerable victims with impunity, he still wasn't clever enough to keep himself out of prison forever. They drugged him, beat and muzzled him, then restrained him within the tight walls of a maximum-security solitary confinement cell. All that meant for Bunkowski is time to seethe in...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671748475
• ISBN13: 9780671748470
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Danny boy is one bad dude!

Could someone please tell me where Rex Miller went? I have the whole series, and I am impatiently waiting for another Chaingang book!If you haven't already read this book, drop everything your doing and buy it. Rex Miller creates an excellent bad guy who grows on you as each book passes.By the time you get to Butcher, your actually rooting for danny boy!These are clearly my favorite books

fascinating character, interesting story, good writing

Rex Miller has created a very interesting and unusual character. CHAINGANG is an extremely strong, highly intelligent serial killer who happens to love puppies, so he can't be all bad. Two parallel stories come together nicely with lots of action and evil deeds, not necessarily done by our anti-hero. If you liked the Silence of the Lambs then you'll love this author.

A tragic near-hero

This is another book review by Wolfie and Kansas, the boonie dogs from Toto, Guam. Rex Miller's novel "Chaingang" features one of the most interesting human characters we have come across in our reading. Daniel Edward Flowers "Chaingang" Bunkowski has the body of King Kong Bundy--and the personality of Ted Bundy, with both the intellect and some of the personality of Hannibal Lecter and a Terminator robot thrown in. He also has the combat skills of "Rogue Warrior" Richard Marcinko, combined with the ability to use halitosis as a martial art.Bunkowski is treated as a monster and serial killer. However, if one looks at the motivation for his homicidal behavior, it becomes tragically clear how close he came to becoming a great hero.Bunkowski was an abused child whose closest friend was an abused dog. Bunkowski and the dog were often locked in the closet together. As a result, when Chaingang grew up and developed his strength, intellect and assasination skills, he sought out and killed dog abusers. If Chaingang only killed dog abusers, he would be a heroic vigilante, an inspiration equal to other fictional heroes such as Tarzan, Doc Savage, Lamont Cranston and Gilgamesh. However, Chaingang has a tendency to get carried away and kill a dozen or so innocent humans for every dog abuser he rightfully punishes.The book "Chaingang" is a fun read, with lots of action, a good mystery, and a couple other interesting human characters besides Bunkowski. While this book is an excellent thriller, if Chaingang Bunkowski had been a little more selective in this targets, "Chaingang" could have been a classic of heroic literature