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Summary: The Four Horsemen?
Review: Death stalks us daily, but never before have our enemies been so well equipt with the tools of our demise.Fellow Law Enforcers beware. Any crank cook with a grudge can easily make enough Nerve Gass to kill you and your family. Be faceless and fear retribution because this resource sit's right alongside his "cookbook". Surveilance of drug making chemicals is distracting us from the chemicals of death. Which is more important? Dope fiends or murder? It's a tough call since many believe they amount to the same thing. Read this book and be very wary-it's instructions are all to clear. It's chemistry is the real thing. Only in America would such a book be legal. Of course it's all in the library, but now lazy morons can make wargasses. So why don't they? Fester is a meth chemist. Our political fanatics are right wing militias. They are unwilling to see Fester as a resource. But they will become open minded someday and then oaklahoma2 will be 2X explosion, a Nerve Gass attack, a botulin attack, mysterious deaths of liberal politicians and meddling law enforcers. The Weathermen combined drug manufacture/chemistry with terrorism to terrifying effect. Soon the Militias will see the conection too-hopefully we will be ready to do them the way we did the Weathermen.
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Summary: Better than "Nasties"
Review: For those considering buying either "Silent Death" or the similar "Assorted Nasties" by David Harbor, I recommend Silent Death as the superior item. It provides greater detail on the chemical procedures for the various projects described, and the author also includes invaluable comments on other authors' work. His remarks and corrections of Kurt Saxon's "Man's James Bond" projects are enough to justify buying Silent Death. By comparison, Assorted Nasties is a list of projects, often with minimal exposition as to make or properly use (for informational purposes only!) them, and some are the same as those in Silent Death. If you can afford to buy both, by all means do; but if you only buy one, then Silent Death should be it!
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Summary: Better than "Nasties"
Review: For those considering buying either "Silent Death" or the similar "Assorted Nasties" by David Harbor, I recommend Silent Death as the superior item. It provides greater detail on the chemical procedures for the various projects described, and the author also includes invaluable comments on other authors' work. His remarks and corrections of Kurt Saxon's "Man's James Bond" projects are enough to justify buying Silent Death. By comparison, Assorted Nasties is a list of projects, often with minimal exposition as to make or properly use (for informational purposes only!) them, and some are the same as those in Silent Death. If you can afford to buy both, by all means do; but if you only buy one, then Silent Death should be it!
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Summary: Silent Death, Second Edition
Review: Got a pest problem? Call Uncle Fester! If you don't have this book, your library ain't complete!
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Summary: It's not as easy as it looks
Review: I agree that this book is pretty comprehensive; it's a good overview for someone beginning to think about poisons for the first time. Just remember if you are not trained in handling hazardous substances you are much more likely to kill yourself than anyone else. It may seem obvious, but it bears repeating: non-professionals should not fool around with poison gas. With the possible exception of some of the vegetable poisons, the dangers far outweigh any possible enlightment or profit or educational value you could hope to gain by working through these procedures. The chapter on autopsies fails to address recent improvements in forensic technology. This is not really Uncle Fester's fault because this field changes so quickly, but readers need to know that it's much harder to avoid detection now than it was even a few years ago when the updated edition was written, which was before the full "mainstreaming" of trace DNA analysis (PCR etc). It is just about impossible, for instance, to plant a poison-gas grenade as described in chapter 3 without leaving DNA, even if you are careful not to leave fingerprints. Just breathing on an object will leave your mark, even if you wear a surgical mask. Commercial interactions are also harder to conceal than Uncle Fester seems to think. If you buy the seeds of toxic plants from any online or mail-order vendor your name will be on a searchable list in a government computer; then it only takes a possible motive to make some investigator's list of possible suspects. And then it's only a matter of time. But the core take-home point of this book still applies: it is way too easy for a motivated undetered sociopath to kill people, individually or in groups. Read it and remember how fragile you are.
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Summary: The best book that I have ever read on the topic of poisons.
Review: I found this book to be very readable considering that it is written by a chemist. A real eyebrow raiser. Get a copy, you'll love it.
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Summary: The book that tells all on the making of Chem-Bio Weapons
Review: On it's Revised and Expanded Second Edition, this most fascinating book tells it all. I'm a former special-operations officer with 16 years of service in my country's intelligence agency (something like a "mix" of CIA/FBI/Secret Service, now defunct), and I have done years of overseas "contractor" work... I've been in five major guerrilla wars (Angola, Mozambique, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Lebanon), and alt. I had previous experience with all kinds of land-warfare weapons, I once or twice wish to have some nasty Chem-Bio weapon to get rid . Old warriors never die (they only go to Hell to regroup), and I even ask some "insiders" on contrating me to work in Iraq, earlier this year, as a "security advisor", but they find me too fat & unfit to be of use in there... a close friend, former Royal Marine and veteran of Northern Ireland and Malvinas/Falklands, who lived in another big town here, go there, and now is doing what he was trained for... and alt. in all wars we once fought we can get any ammount of firearms, ammo, support weapons, you name it, there was a lack of high-explosives to we "Soldiers-of-Fortune". If I had this amazing book with me on "my wars" back in the '80's, I could do things in a better, faster, more funny way, if you can get what I'm talking about. I do not love these terrible weapons the way I love conventional ones, but they are the most capable weapons ever and they are at anyone's reach - of course with some experience in this field. If you want real weapons, this is the book for you. This book tells the most secret knowledge in a way it CAN be put into practice. Let me mention one George Magazine article (that can be viewed at www.unclefesterbooks.com, where a Dr. Patrick was quoted as saying that the publication of this book may constitute a threat to national security... and I must say that, if at anytime you must face conventional forces and you are outnumbered & outgunned, with the knowledge you can get from this book, if you put it into practice, you can WIN. Guess where that nut Japanese fanaticals get the recipe for Sarin used in the Tokyo attacks... yes, you can bet... Uncle Fester knows what he writes about - and knows a LOT. Thank you for this amazing book, Dr. Gozilla, the Tokyo-buster, as your friends call you!!!
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Summary: Okay, but not great
Review: SILENT DEATH does have some interesting stuff in it, but there also parts that I found a bit ridiculous.
The corrections to bad information in "The Poormans James Bond" are much appreciated, as are the little anecdotes that appear from time to time. However, some info is really off the wall. For example, one chapter includes instructions for delivering a poison from 1,000 feet above: Uncle Fester tells you that all you have to do is buy an issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, get the instructions for building a small airplane (using a VW Beetle engine), build it, join a club of pilots and learn how to fly the thing, find a location (not an airport) where you can take off and land without being noticed, build the little gas bomb, and drop it on your intended target! Why don't I just build a nuclear submarine while I'm at it?
Then there is another poison that he states is "really terrific, one of my favorites and very easy to make with all the ingredients readily available...EXCEPT ONE". Well, if one ingredient is unavailable, what good does the rest of the info do me?
There is also a short but interesting chapter on using hydrogen peroxide as a fire starter. Uncle Fester acknowledges that the drug store stuff is only 3% potent and you need more like 30% to do the job, but there is no info on how to distill it or whatever. Frustrating.
Pick this book up if you find a used one at a low price. Don't pay $20 for it.
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Summary: silent death writen by uncle fester
Review: This book is good for the technical information avalable within it. But no one yet! has tryed to write a book of this type for countrys such as the united kingdom or any country in europe, which have extreemley strong security around buying chemicals to make such things as that are included in uncles fester books. Its a shame no one looks beyond the USA when writing such good books as thease.
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Summary: Very thorough book
Review: This book is very detailed on the subject of poisons and such as well as ways to get away with it (poisoning). It does take some chemical knowledge, but Uncle Fester explains things in the simplest terms, so that anyone can at least somewhat know what he's talking about. If you are interested in poisoning (punk, >:-) ) then get this book!
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