And the courts that were made to punish genocide are going to be making it happen. From concentration camps to gas chambers. Looking into that brutal, bestial face, his heart sank, because how could this thing ever be seen as anything other than a threat? They’re going to exterminate them, Aslan knew then. I work for the International Criminal Court.” After all, nobody would have thought it was very important.

Some clerk had mixed up the records, Aslan guessed. Murray only had the one Multiform pack, and the names of the rest checked out.

“My squad was Honey, Dragon and Bees, but I was leader.”īack to the notes. “I was leader.” It spoke carefully, stressing the words strangely. Now the International Court of Justice has to decide whether Rex is a dangerous weapon to be decommissioned, or a living being with the right to life and liberty. When the world uncovers the heinous details of the genocide, Murray is tried as a war criminal. Indeed, Rex and his multiform assault unit-Dragon, Honey and Bees-have been at the forefront of a dirty war in Campeche, south-eastern Mexico he has indiscriminately killed men, women and children because Murray said that they were “enemies.” Rex couldn’t decide for himself, or sever his feedback implants and override encoded hierarchies. Rex is an armed and bulletproof bioform engineered to be a good dog, and follow Master’s commands. The days of Doctor Moreau’s pure research are long past, and a new scientist, Murray, has found a commercial use for the advances in vivisection and bioengineering. Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Dogs of War is an action-packed science fiction novel featuring genetically engineered creatures bred for war.

Dogs of war by adrian tchaikovsky