Kill dinosaurs, make $. Also, zombies are a great business plan - The Flock

Chalk one up for the League of Stupid Fictional Business Villains. Guys, guys, I know many of you don't like corporations, but this is not how greed-driven evil works unless you're a complete moron.

I've just found out about an upcoming book called The Flock and have procured a copy for review from my place of business. I grabbed it because hey! Dinosaurs! Awesome, right?

But read the summary:

"A population of prehistoric, predatory, highly intelligent giant proto-birds who've roamed for thousands of years in the trackless savanna of what's now a government military reservation in central Florida....the Berg Brothers, a Disney-style entertainment conglomerate, crave the land as residential real estate. When a right-wing militia is hired to destroy the flock, a naïve young Fish and Wildlife officer and his girlfriend find themselves caught in the resulting melee."

Yes, that's right. Evil Not!Disney hires mercenaries to kill the only dinosaurs on Earth.

You can't attribute every single behavior you hate to corporations - pure evil alone does not = cash $. They don't get an allowance from Satan. That's just bad business sense!

Evil Not!Disney would not hire mercs to kill the only dinosaurs on Earth. They would lock them behind bulletproof glass and charge people thousands of dollars to see Dino Fun Land! And immediately trademark a cute cartoon character based on them. Get it right.

But maybe I am totally wrong. Maybe this book makes more sense than the blurb. I'll report back after I read it.

ETA: In conversation online with a friend, a moment ago, she asked me to explain how one funds evil if Satan does not give an allowance, and I did. To wit - evil is not, in itself, a business plan. Evil is generally either a hobby or a side-benefit of your actual profession. If you want to be evil professionally, you need to come up with a way to monetize it in order to quit your dayjob. For example, blowing up a peaceful alien planet does not, actually, make you richer. In fact, I'm pretty sure the explosives would set you back quite a bit. However, blowing up a peaceful planet and having a fleet of ore ships ready to cart the mineral-rich remains away could very well be a cost effective money making proposition. You see where I'm going with this?