The Tin Man is a 1998 novel by best-selling American writer Dale Brown. In the novel, Patrick McLanahan, a recurring character in Brown's books, returns from overseas conflict to his hometown, Sacramento, California. There he encounters an old enemy whose evil plot forces McLanahan to take a terrible chance as he employs experimental technology to make himself a human weapon. Using BERP armor, and (chiefly) nonlethal weapons, he attacks Methamphetamine-producing Biker gangs, after his brother (a rookie cop) is severely injured.