Silent Death – Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition

NBBDev — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:49:02 +0000

Softcover | 5.5 x 8.5 | 136 pages 9BB Comments: Nothing spices up a book catalog like a good old-fashioned poisoner’s handbook, and this is still the best one. It’s accurate, irreverent, occasionally shocking, and very funny. For informational and entertainment purposes, as they used to say… From the Publisher: Poisons and the art of killing with stealth are part of humanity’s folklore and heritage, and in the homicidal manifesto, master chemist Uncle Fester has turned his attention to the venomousness that Homo sapiens has wrought — and how these toxic substances are gathered synthesized, and put to use. Tracing the roots of mankind’s knowledge of poisons and their usage back to the shamans who once crafted tribal remedies and administered fatal potions, Fester’s fascinating study includes:

What makes a good poison? Five general rules.
Inorganic poisons: fluorides, heavy metals, oxalates, arsenic, carbon monoxide.
War gases: phosgene, arsine, phosphine.
Nerve gas: the poor man’s atom bomb. How Sarin, Tabun, DPF, Soman and V-gas are synthesized and used in guerrilla war, including aerosol delivery methods.
Natural poisons: digitalis, rapeseed oil, jequirity beans.
CIA shellfish toxin: how saxitoxin is made.
Trembles: how tremetol is extracted from common weeds.
Time-delay poisons: carcinogens that kill over a long period of time.
Botulism: an easily made poison suitable for large- or small-scale attacks.
Ricin: kitchen-improvised devastation. How one of the world’s deadliest substances is derived from castor beans.
Delivery to the target: basic poisoning tenets.
Time-delay fire: untraceable arson by using hydrogen peroxide.
Autopsy! What the medical examiner will look for in cases of suspicious death.
And more, including a list of the chemicals mentioned in the book and how they are used in industry.

Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture

NBBDev — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 19:47:52 +0000

From Uncle Fester’s 2005 Loompanics interview: When I was in college I was an avid reader of “the underground press.” There were books by guys going under the name of “Dr. Atomic” and other pseudonyms, which fascinated me to no end, but I was always disappointed in the depth and accuracy of the presentation. “I can do better than this,” I told myself… Some years later I fell into the hands of Johnny Law because I had been brewing meth for too long and had made too easy a target of myself. Doing time was mostly a very boring and wasteful experience, but one day Barbara Walters came onto my jailhouse TV screen wailing and spitting into the camera about what she termed “terrorist publishers.” She was all worked up about those underground press books I used to read in college. I knew it was my duty to twist her panties even tighter, so I had a guy down the cellblock pass me his typewriter, and in the next few months cranked out the first edition of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture. I sent the manuscript to Loompanics, and the rest is history. Now in its eighth edition, Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture is a classic of underground chemistry, and a rollicking good read to boot. If the government had the power to ban books, this would be at the top of the list. Order your copy today!

Uncle Fester – Nine-Banded Books

Silent Death – Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition

Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture