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help me find a book please

Overheal · 2012-04-10 15:26:34

my teacher had looked for this and failed and so have i. he said it was a book about a guy who raced pigeons. he eventually trains them to each carry a small nuclear payload and send them all to the top of the empire state building to reach critical mass and blew up new york. its old fiction likely 50 years old. can anyone…

10-04-2012 3:26pm

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my teacher had looked for this and failed and so have i. he said it was a book about a guy who raced pigeons. he eventually trains them to each carry a small nuclear payload and send them all to the top of the empire state building to reach critical mass and blew up new york. its old fiction likely 50 years old. can anyone help find it?

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#2 11-04-2012 4:33am

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The Fifth Horseman, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (1980).

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#3 11-04-2012 10:45pm

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close enough. Im wondering if he didn't superimpose the critical mass scenario based on his own musings. Ill run this by him.

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#4 12-04-2012 7:12am

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Was he plotting a coo?

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