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An ancient Mayan god has risen from millennia of slumber to bring about the prophesied end of the world. Skeletal and reeking of putrefaction, Cizin the Stinking One creeps into his victims’ dreams, bending their minds to his apocalyptic ends, with the United States’ nuclear stockpile as his ultimate target.
How do you defeat an enemy that's been dead for over 2500 years? Certainly not with conventional weapons. No, when America confronts an eldritch adversary, it turns to Remo Williams, who must once again put it all on the line in the service of his country and the world.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, ex-cop Remo Williams is rescued from the electric chair and recruited by a secret government organization as an assassin, targeting criminals who are beyond the law. Remo's trainer is a curmudgeonly old Korean named Chiun, whose mastery of the terrifyingly powerful martial art of Sinanju makes him the deadliest man alive.
The winning combination of action, humor, and mysticism has made the Destroyer one of the best-selling series of all time. With more than 150 books and over 50 million copies sold worldwide, the Destroyer has been praised by the LA Times as "flights of hilarious satire," and gave birth to the mythology of the brash young Westerner taught by an ancient, inscrutable master.
- Sales Rank: #849231 in Books
- Published on: 2013-08-15
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .44" w x 5.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
About the Author
WARREN MURPHY was born in Jersey City, where he worked in journalism and politics until launching the Destroyer series with Richard Sapir in 1971. A screenwriter (Lethal Weapon II, The Eiger Sanction) as well as a novelist, Murphy’s work has won a dozen national awards, including multiple Edgars and Shamuses. He has lectured at many colleges and universities, and is currently offering writing lessons at his website, warrenmurphy.com. A Korean War veteran, some of Murphy’s hobbies include golf, mathematics, opera, and investing. He has served on the board of the Mystery Writers of America, and has been a member of the Screenwriters Guild, the Private Eye Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, and the American Crime Writers League. He has five children: Deirdre, Megan, Brian, Ardath, and Devin.
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GOD IS IN THE DETAILS.....
By PALADIN
As a long-time fan (since 1975) I was quite intrigued to read a new Destroyer entry--the last published book being some years ago....
But something just does not quite come off as it should here.
Frankly, I have a difficult time believing that Warren Murphy actually wrote this book.
Yes...His name is on the cover...
Yes, there is ample blurbage inside that identifies 'Warren Murphy' as the author.....
The trouble is that there are numerous errors and glitches in the narrative that just do not make sense as coming from Warren Murphy`s writing style.
Others have pointed out the inconsistencies with prior established Destroyer elements; Remo`s military service, Chiun`s behaving in a repetitively UN-Chiun-Like manner, etc....
What immediately struck me are some of the tiny things the author blows entirely....
The standard sleeping mats Chiun always favored have been discarded in favor of hotel beds with ...'magic fingers'...as the mode of choice for slumber by our traveling Sinanju duo..... (SERIOUSLY???) and that at one point, Chiun buys --(FOR INTENDED USE, not as a joke, mind you)-- "an assortment of daggers, swords, axes, iron stars and other weapons" (from a nearby 'Chuck Norris exhibition', no less!)....This goes against so much established-over-four-decades detail as to come across as flatly absurd when you read it. (In dire need, I could conceive of Chiun perhaps having a long, rectangular heavy package shipped in, containing the 7 Foot Long Fabled Sword Of Sinanju, but that is apparently only of use for book cover art these days... The assortment of cheap martial arts weapons Chiun goes to the trouble to obtain is never used, or even mentioned again other than that one sentence, which makes me wonder what the point was of having them there at all...If Chiun saw a threat that would make him resort to weapons that he has patently disdained in every other book, then you would think that they would be at least used....somehow...how they could be of use fighting an ancient Mayan God is another question, left entirely unanswered)
I genuinely have a difficult time believing that the author who partially created the long-standing elements of this series --from the beginning-- would be so forgetful of the details of his own creation, or so readily discard or ammend them after 40 YEARS of established mythos.
Further incongruity is displayed in Chapter 12, when--after rumninating on his 'Air Force' background while zipping throught the air at a stated Mach 1 in a NextGen version of the SR-71 Blackbird--Remo decides to just jump out of the plane! Oh--he does request that the altitude be dropped to 'about 1500 ft'....but apparently the speed is undiminished. As the bird is now (for that type of craft) traveling just off the deck-- this is a blatant bit of waay-too implausible BS.
Over the years, the Sinanju abilities of Remo & Chiun have been shown to be incredible of course... but niether Murphy, nor Sapir (R.I.P.) EVER made this sort of bad juxtaposition of Fact and outrageous Fantasy-to-the-level-of-Ludicrous BS. The reader gets a toss-off line that ends the chapter as Remo "tumbled out of the hatch"...of A PLANE TRAVELING AT MACH 1??? (I`m guessing the pilot was expendable, as opening 'a hatch' would tend to compromise the integrity of the airframe and totally screw the avionics...just a thought, mind you...one the author apparently did not have....)
(OVERLY) Repetitive emphasis is placed upon a Sinanju technique called 'The Flying Hawk', which allows Sinanju practitioners to effectively glide vast distances by utilizing thermals and air pockets...Okkkeefine, I can go with the (air)flow as much as any series fan can....BUT.... when The Flying Hawk is availed upon for the third time on page 161 by simply jumping off of a water tower...well, it doesn`t take an aeronautical engineer to wonder just how many 'air pockets' can be relied upon from at best a hundred feet up. When 'a few minutes later' Remo and Chiun glide down to earth some miles distant, it just sort of blows any suspension of disbelief with the realisation that the Sinanju duo can now FLY, apparently. The Flying Hawk gets yet a fourth useage (which means that roughly every 45 pages of this 181 page tale, The Flying Hawk is applied) and the technique even closes out the book, as Our Heroes glide off into the future together.....(hopefully towards a better book)
In all my prior readings--(and I have `em ALL)--niether Sapir nor Murphy have ever, ever written anything this STUPID.
The plotline is only so-so, and far, far inferior to Destroyer tales past. Yet another earth-threatening Old God has arisen to bring about World Destruction, and only You-Know-Who can stop it. (Personally, I was hoping that Sinanju was done tackling such Lovecraft -esque cut-rate Cthulhu fantasy frights after that disasterous Squid-Thing mess some years back)
What ever happened to the clever, witty and genuine BAD GUYS with plots that actually made SENSE instead of Mysticism ?
There are a battery of chapters detailing Remo`s heretofore unrevealed past as a plucky, good-hearted teenager living in the boonies with trailer trash-type relatives, but a nice doggy and a sweet coulda-loved-him gal-friend that he encounters again in the here-n-now of the narrative. Amazingly, I found that you can actually skip the flash-back chapters ENTIRELY after the first one, and the story remains un-altered! It`s as if the author (whomever it was) decided to make a nod to one of Chiun`s soaps and add in chapters of useless, time-consuming, fluff material. It does pad-out the page count....But that is all the Teen-Remo chapters accomplish as far as the storyline goes.
It is enjoyable to see Remo & Chiun back in action...but those nagging, repetitous fractured details are a constant distraction, and the weak plotline barely holds interest.
It has been said that; 'God Is In The Details'......
Well, between the menace of The Mayan God 'Cizin The Stinking One' and The God Of Fractured Details running rampant through this story, Remo, Chiun AND the Destroyer fans have quite a challenge to overcome here.
Of course, Remo & Chiun do overcome 'The Stinking One', but I still have the stink of this book in my mind, so....I`m re-reading the original series from #3 onward.......(I won`t hit anything worse than this new one until #109 ; American Obsession....at least that one I know a clueless hack named Alan Philipson was responsible for)
There are so many, many wonderfully enjoyable Destroyer tales from some talented authors...Sapir & Murphy`s start-up run...Molly Cochran...Will Murray...Jim Mullaney....so much wit, style and fun.
At least those books I KNOW I can count on being a good read.
I began this one with high hopes of enjoyment...I ended with sad disappointment.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The Odd Couple
By Amazon Customer
Always excited for any new Destroyer material although this book is an odd duck.
Remo is Remo is Remo, Chiun is out of character more silly and obnoxious that awesome his subtext becomes burdensome and does nothing to add to the story. Hate to see Chiun presented with little or no dignity.
Not the best of the series but New material none-the-less, something feels sloppy about the execution of this story.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Who is this kvetch impersonating Chiun?
By John Dilley
Very disappointing. The writer apparently hasn't done his homework. Chiun naked eating grapes posing for a painting? Someone spills cocoa on Chiun's robe? Assuming that Chiun's reflexes have slowed so much that he allows this to happen, the culprit survives? Chiun interacts with a bunch of old women and doesn't act like a Jewish mother himself? Everybody survives Chiun having his soap opera interrupted? The characters are so out of character that it might as well be a different novel.
The only reason it isn't one star is I admit reading the whole thing, not because it was good, but because I wanted to find out how many other ways it mess up the character portrayals.
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