The Destroyer
Series · 146
books · 1971-2021
Books in series
#0
The Day Remo Died
1982
Remo Williams was a simple beat cop. Nobody special, really, until he came to the attention of a secret government organization. They had him killed. Then they brought him back to life, erased his identity, and trained him to be the perfect assassin. All under the pretext of defending the Constitution.
This is a story that's been told before—in Created, The Destroyer—but never like this. The Day Remo Died revisits the origin of the Destroyer through the eyes of Chiun, the Reigning Master of Sinanju. Chiun, the Teacher. Chiun, who has much to endure if he's to elevate a pale piece of pig's ear to mastery. This is the Day Remo Died. This is where it all begins.
#1
Created, the Destroyer
1971
When ex-New Jersey cop Remo Williams is electrocuted for the murder of a dope-dealing goon, CURE, a super-secret government agency that doesn't really exist, schemes to resurrect Remo as the ultimate killing machine that will carry out most of its dirty plans. Under the direction of expert assassin Master Chiun, Remo is transformed into the Destroyer and launches a series of secret plots to dissolve the underworld.
#2
Death Check
1972
The big brains behind the business usually have many pots boiling on their stove, or running their think engines as the case may be. But when the business motto of the Brewster forum, "Pursuing Research Into Original Thought", leads them to some eccentric affairs that throw them far enough off track, Remo Williams enlists the help of his Master Chiun to solve a harrowing crime.
#3
Chinese Puzzle
1972
A Chinese diplomat is decidedly deceased and the communist chairman's advisor is shanghaied while burrowing in the Bronx. The State Department is seeing red and a sour situation gets spicy. Now Remo Williams and his Korean mentor, Master Chiun, must save the abducted adviser and compromise the conspiracy before the kung fu hits the fan. As the US and China prepare for nuclear battle and an assassin's bullet has The Destroyer's name on it, the fate of the world is as complicated to solve as a Chinese Puzzle.
#3, 12, 20
The Best of the Destroyer
1977
In combination with the launch of The New Destroyer, brand-new novels continuing this bestselling, action-packed series, Forge is publishing this omnibus of three of the definitive Destroyer novels. Hand-picked by co-creator and co-author Warren Murphy, these three novels serve as both a revisit to the golden age of the series and a great introduction to what Remo Williams and his Sinanju master, Chiun, have been up to for the past thirty years. Included
The Chinese Puzzle
The US President calls upon the service of Remo and Chiun to smash an Asian conspiracy that could lead to a US-China confrontation . . . if the superhuman weapon of destruction fails, it could mean the end of the USA.
The Slave Safari
There is a secret only Chiun knows. America has committed a sin against him he cannot pardon—and he will not even share it with Remo Williams, the Destroyer, whom he has taught all his skills and loves as a son. Deep in Africa, countless feuds that have blazed for many centuries are quickly being resolved by death and massacre. A massive conspiracy is unearthed surrounding the centuries-old slave trade, and only Remo can unravel it.
The Assassin's Playoff
After a brutal fight in the streets of New Jersey, Remo and Chiun find themselves in battle after battle. Their arch-enemy and fellow assassin, the Maestro of Mayhem known as Nuihc, is hoping to knock out his competition. It all comes to a boil in Chiun's hometown in North Korea as the Destroyer finds himself in a fight to the death.
#4
Mafia Fix
1972
When ten billion filthy drug dollars' worth of heroin pollutes the Jersey shore and threatens to make the Mafia a second Evil Empire, the president knows there's just one man who can stop a Jersey Kingpin from destroying the country and that's an ex-Jersey cop resurrected and nicknamed the Destroyer. Remo Williams is on a mission to mainline death and destruction into the Cosa Nostra before Main Street gets stuck. But how will Master Chiun's masterpiece of a human killing machine score? Will history's biggest drug score go bust? With Remo on the mission you know he'll sniff out the swine and cover his tracks but when he gets to the top will he find he's gone too high and realize that the Mafia fix is in?
#5
Dr. Quake
1972
Forber isn't a mad scientist, he's a tectonic technician with a touch for terror who goes by the name "Dr. Quake". California's touchy San Andreas Fault is in danger of being professionally provoked. But it's not Dr. Quake's fault, for someone has split with his earthquake machine. If this dastardly deviant doesn't get a million dollars in cold hard cash he is going to shake down Southern California for a whole lot more. Luckily, shakedowns and natural disasters are just what the doctor ordered for Remo Williams, Korean death master Chiun's trained killing machine, because when it comes to finding weapons of mass destruction, it takes one to find one. After our Destroyer sifts through the blackmail and terror it's the pompous perpetrator who won't be left standing.
#6
Death Therapy
1972
Brilliant and dazzlingly beautiful Dr. Lithia Forrester is masterminding an undercover agency that is stealing America's top secrets. The group is infiltrating the highest echelons of the U.S. government and planning to sell the information at an international auction, where every country's ante is a billion in gold - control of the USA going to the highest bidder. What the small army doesn't know is they are subjects of Dr. Forrester's mind control experiments. They are doing themselves in, while the lovely doctor reaps the rewards. That is, until Remo and Chiun crush the plot and save the country - then both buyer and selling may be going . . . going . . . gone!
#7
Union Bust
1972
When a giant transportation union controlling all air, train and truck traffic is born, not only does this conglomerate pose a threat to the local leaders, but the entire country is at risk until Remo Williams moves in to dissolve danger in a deadly game.
#8
Summit Chase
1973
The President of Scambia's life is in danger when one sleezy goon schemes to assassinate not only a leader, but immobilize and destroy the entire country and transform its peaceful society into a thundering safe haven for international hoods. Master Chiun and his protégé Remo Williams descend on the scene to combat the treacherous plot...but not without a fight.
#9
Murder's Shield
1973
An army of renegade cops across the country have been assigned the task of squashing criminal cockroaches under their boots. It's a dirty job and the White House entrusts it to only one man - The Destroyer. Between Master Chiun's exquisite sense of justice and Remo Williams' knack for murder, they are ready to bring justice to town once and for all.
#10
Terror Squad
1973
A wave of global terrorism spreads as a result of one madman's tyrannical powers. Even while the governments of three major world powers are on his trail, CURE, the United States' top secret agency, knows of only one way to solve the problem - The Destroyer. There's little doubt that Master Chiun's protégé Remo Williams is capable of waging any war, but when the mysterious radical assassin is out to kill, everyone runs for cover - except the fearless and most powerful.
#11
Kill or Cure
1973
A plot designed by the United States' top-secret agency, CURE, to dispose of a certain corrupt politician, is revealed in what unravels into a national scandal. The agency must be dismantled before greater suspicions arise and one of the top leaders, The Destroyer, is finally destroyed himself. But Master Chiun's days of work haven't ended, and he's not waiting around for his sidekick Remo to be out of a job either. The two are determined to do whatever possible to keep each other in business and continue to bring justice to society.
#12
Slave Safari
1973
Chiun knows a secret and he isn't even telling Remo, the Destroyer, whom he has taught all his skills and loves as a son, because America has committed a sin against him he cannot pardon. They are in Africa, where feuds that have smoldered over centuries are being resolved by death and massacre. But how many deaths? And why? The facts are bizarre. In a Baltimore cemetery a white woman of aristocratic birth, who had died as a slave in Africa many years ago, is supposed to lie buried. But it is not her body in the coffin - and that can spark an international incident. It's going to get hotter in Africa. America's future seems dark indeed - and only Remo, the Destroyer, can bring back the light.
#13
Acid Rock
1973
The stage is set for murder, mayhem and deafening music. But the music isn't loud enough to drown out the shots aimed at the gorgeous redhead on stage. Not that anybody is paying much attention, not in the screaming chaos of the world's biggest rock festival ever. The girl likes to be near singers, the freakier and more spaced-out the better. Some of them get too close and wind up permanently spaced out. Why? Someone wants to kill the beautiful girl with the long auburn hair. She is under contract for one million dollars. A big bounty is on her beautiful head. She has to be killed, and quick. But Remo and Chiun have other ideas. Their assignment from CURE says protect her at any costs - and that means someone is going to have to pay a very high price.
#14
Judgment Day
1974
The new director is ordering the Destroyer and his mentor Chiun to kill Smith, the director of CURE. They are searching for Smith, who is successfully hiding, when immediate trouble begins for the deadly duo, because Chiun doesn't want to agree to the killing. Smith is Chiun's emperor, the man who pays the salary that supports the ancient village of Sinanju. Chiun doesn't know about CURE, just about Smith, and the cash always arrives on time. That's enough. Remo is a company man though, a trained killer who works for CURE, the top-secret agency that doesn't exist, and if they don't want Smith to exist any longer, it is his job to murder him. Orders are orders. But who is the new director? Who hired him and who fired Smith? Could there be another infiltrator? CURE's security has been violated before, and there is always that possibility. There are a lot of questions to be answered before judgment day arrives.
#15
Murder Ward
1974
The Robler Clinic is getting a reputation for too many deaths during routine operations. A gorgeous female administrator, Ms. Kathy Hahl, is discovering a profitable little racket, and her tame anaesthetist, Dan Demmet, is playing along nicely. When timid mother-dominated Nathan David Wilberforce - a subject of special interest to CURE - comes to a premature death at the clinic, Remo and Chiun decide it is time to infiltrate... And it is Remo who books in as the 'patient' - exposing him to the rare and deadly ageing drug.
#16
Oil Slick
1974
The Middle Eastern state of Lobynia had been supplying oil to the U.S.A. for years, but when Colonel Baraka takes over from the king after a coup, there is a change of policy - and the cut-off of oil threatens the whole American economy. Baraka has big plans - but they bring him big trouble. First there is Remo, whose brief is to get the oil flowing again before American industry grinds to a halt. And then there is Chiun, Remo's Korean friend and teacher. Chiun's family holds a centuries-old contract to protect the kings of Lobynia - and Chiun takes his responsibilities very seriously...
#17
Last War Dance
1974
The rebels from the Revolutionary Indian Party plan on capturing the small midwestern town of Wounded Elk, intent on a final showdown against the white man. But only CURE knows that just outside the city limits is the Cassandra - the United States' most secret nuclear installation, an atomic doomsday machine big enough to blow up the world. Remo and Chiun are needed - to divert the Indian attack on the monument where the Cassandra is hidden. And to stop a ruthless KGB agent from finding the deadly weapon.
#18
Funny Money
1975
The San Diego branch of the Secret Service is receiving some absolutely perfect counterfeit U.S. currency in the mail, and getting nervous. A flood of these bogus bucks could cripple the economy. But plans for using the funny money are more devious than that - and it's all the work of an utterly gorgeous impossible brilliant female scientist and her not-quite-human associate, Mr. Gordons. She's holding the world's monetary system, as ransom for a NASA space-age computer program so advanced its use on earth is limited. In space? That's another matter - a matter for Remo Williams, the Destroyer, to settle before the future of America—and the world—becomes the property of a beautiful, diabolical creature and her unstoppable sidekick!
#19
Holy Terror
1975
The Divine Bliss Mission in India is just another money hustle - till its leader begins using his disciples to penetrate the higher U.S. echelons. The Blissful Master, alias whiz-kid Dom, has a nice line in drug-induced bliss for the converted and a sideline in painful death for unbelievers that have cost CURE four Agents. Remo and Chiun hit India, Dom flees, but curvaceous follower Joleen is prepared to embrace a new master - the outraged Chiun. Leaving behind them a trail of blissful dead, the three head for home - and more trouble.
#20
Assassin's Play Off
1975
Assassins Play-Off (The Destroyer, No. 20) [Mass Market Paperback] [Jan 01, 1975] Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy
#21
Deadly Seeds
1975
James Orayo Fielding is a multimillionaire. He hates people. Considers them little more than bugs . . . to be controlled or eradicated. Fielding also has a new way to solve the famine that is escalating in many overpopulated countries. It is a secret grain treatment that matures seeds in just one month. News of this spectacular process sweeps across the world. Starving nations of India, Asia, Africa, and South America literally ransom their treasures to be given the formula for this key to survival. Ecologists and world leaders are proclaiming Fielding as a hero to mankind. All this adulation merely bugs the wily old man. He'll do as he pleases, when he damn well chooses to do so, and harvest all the profits himself. Foreign agents attempt to steal the formula. Even the Mafia attempts to get into the picture. Naturally, CURE is also involved. Is it really possible to feed the world at discount prices? Why would a millionaire delay the chance to make billions of dollars? Remo and Chiun discover a triple-cross so sinister that even they are impressed, and decide that the world is worth saving after all. For a bowl of rice with a side order of raw bean sprouts to go.
#22
Brain Drain
1976
Artists, composers, and writers are being mutilated and destroyed in the bloodiest murders in police history. This maniac is taking one thing - their brains! The chief of CURE nearly ends up as the next corpse . . . Remo and Chiun are acting fast, and discovering the killer's an old enemy, stockpiling brains to extract the creativity he's lacking . . . They are tracking him to Hollywood - top brain center - where work can be fun! A sexy agent wants Remo for a new career . . . Chiun meets his soap opera idol . . . and there's a great spectacle irresistible force, Sinanju, meeting indestructible object, Mr. Gordons.
#23
Child's Play
1976
The government's Witness Protection Program has been hitting a bit of a snag lately. Despite their brand new secret identities, certain loose-lipped mob stoolies are getting blown away by a group of gun-toting adolescents. And in an effort to save face, a big-mouth Army bigwig's been pointing the accusing finger at the wrong assassins - Remo Williams and his mentor, Sinanju master Chiun! There's a new kind of baby boom going around. And before he plays dead for a bunch of homicidal half-pints, the Destroyer is going to nip the poisonous peewee pandemonium in the bud!
#24
King's Curse
1976
New York graffiti artists are leaving their marks everywhere. Even on museum exhibit Uctut, the massive stone idol of the Actatl tribe, who had secretly survived since Cortes and his conquistadors. They are avenging the insult by killing museum trustees and a congressman - by the ancient ritual of cutting out their hearts! Remo and Chiun are entering the fray with ancient Sinanju, and Actatls biting the dust as the tribe musters to do battle with CURE. Meanwhile, Remo is acquiring two camp followers. One can't keep her mouth shut, the other can't keep her clothes on . . . the odds are sure loaded against CURE.
#25
Sweet Dreams
1976
Fiction, Men's Adventure, Spy, Intrigue
Richard Meyers (ghostwriter) is the main author of this book, with Warren Murphy (the series creator) as co-author, while Richard Sapir, who had nothing to do with the writing of this book, has his name on the cover as series co-creator.
#26
In Enemy Hands
1976
A congressional committee investigates abuses by America's spy network and winds up gutting our nation's intelligence system. Suddenly the Russians are having a field day; their special killer teams roam Europe at will. American spies turn up dead. In capitals around the world, meetings are held to plan the next anti-American escapade. American is defenseless before the rest of the world . . . Well, not quite defenseless. America's two secret weapons, Remo Williams, the Destroyer, and his incredible Korean teacher, Chiun, a master assassin, are being thrown into the breach. They are being sent overseas to start restoring some sense of safety and sanity to the world's balance of power. But the Soviets don't give up that easily. They have a secret weapon too, and when they unleash it, Remo and Chiun find themselves poised for a battle to the death . . . With each other!
#27
The Last Temple
1977
The bodies of two murdered Israelis have turned up, hacked to bits and the pieces arranged in a bloody swastika - and Remo and Chiun are on their way to meet the leaders of an Israeli doomsday group, Zeher Lahurban. In the event of Israel losing the war with the Arabs, secretly stored atom bombs will drop on Arab territory. But a group of ex-Nazis discover the plan, and see a way to destroy the Jewish nation once and for all - without any help from the Arabs. Remo and Chiun are up against fanatics with long memories, who are keeping Hitler's schemes alive in their twisted minds.
#28
Ship of Death
1977
Remo and Chiun learn that the huge ship sold to the U.N. as a new headquarters is rigged to explode on the night of the opening gala
#29
The Final Death
1977
Chinese Take-Out
Death to the meat eaters of America!
That's the plan of a team of Chinese terrorists who arrive in the United States to fulfill the primary prophecy of their cult. And when a hotel full of legionaries keel over from the effects of tainted meat, the government institutes an anti-toxin plan, under the guise of flu shots, so as not to panic everyone. But the Chinese learn of the cover and arrange it to look as if it's the flu shots that kill!
Enter Remo Williams, the Destroyer, and his teacher, Chiun, Korean master assassin, to take care of business and do some killing of their own.
But there's a problem. These are no ordinary terrorists. They are vegetarians. More than that, they are also members of a secret vampire society! Then Chiun discovers that the vampire creed is as old as Sinanju itself when the vampires decide to break their vegetarian tradition—with Remo as the main course!
Richard Meyers (ghostwriter) is the main author of this book. It was coauthored by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, the series creators.
#30
Mugger Blood
1977
When an old woman is murdered in broad daylight, Remo Williams and Chiun try to shut down the Saxon Lords, the street gang responsible
#31
The Head Men
1977
Fiction, Men s Adventure, Action, Destroyer
Washington Menu
When an honored and respected business executive is blown up into liver pâté as a warning to the president, will the head man become the main course?
The president thinks he's safe. With the White House electronic devices, the secret service, and the most elaborate security system that money can buy, he is—isn't he?
The opinion of the men from CURE, Remo and Chiun: The president is "Dead meat."
With assassins lurking behind every corner and the secret service servicing their own secrets only Remo and Chiun stand between the killers getting their just desserts and a young president become a grisly leftover...ready to be swept into a plastic bag.
#32
Killer Chromosomes
1978
1990 PINNACLE BOOKS SOFTCOVER
#33
Voodoo Die
1978
Under the Communist President-for-Life, a voodoo priest named Generalissimo Sacrist Corazon, the natives of the Caribbean Isle Baqia aren't complaining, thanks to a delicious drug they call "mung." When shot through with radiation, however, mung becomes a powerful weapon: it literally liquefies the opposition, and Generalissimo Corazon has no qualms about using it. After an innocent missionary becomes the latest victim of Corazon's mung machine, the world is alarmed, and deadly forces are inspired. The Chinese, the Russians, and the CIA all vie to control the mung machine, while CURE's own powerful weapons, Remo and Chiun, make their way to Baqia and further discover nuclear warheads aimed at the United States. Sacrist Corazon must be stopped, but has the Destroyer met his deadly voodoo match?
#34
Chained Reaction
1978
BLACK...
Black is not only beautiful, it's Ruby Gonzalez... the wild CIA lady with a sure cure for what ails Remo and Chiun.
AND WHITE
Remo Williams just can't seem to forget he was once a Newark cop. But when you're the Destroyer you do need a little humility.
AND YELLOW
The worth of gold, the texture of parchment, the color of the sun source itself... and, in the inscrutable, insuperable, Chiun, a veritable galaxy of wisdom and power. And fun at a riot.
...AND ALL OVER!
Which is what it is when Southern idiots with whips and chains, and Northern madmen with money attempt to reduce business costs by raising slavery to new levels of efficiency. The Destroyer, with a little help from his two friends, proves that billions of dollars and armies of thugs just aren't enough. Ten bucks and Ruby will do....
#35
Last Call
1978
Red Riot
During a CIA budget war, a group of assassins mistakenly triggers an ingenious CIA plot originally planned in the 1950s - and a world-wide killing spree of top-level Russian officials begins....
Only the Destroyer, with the all-wise Chiun and the ever-wild Ruby, can stop them from reaching their primary target - the Russian premier!
However, in the midst of all this carnage, Chiun still wants Remo and Ruby to create a super baby as heir to Sinanju, before the government's budget cuts wipe out welfare funds!
How will The Destroyer cope with life and death, love and procreation, all at once?
Warren Murphy wrote this book by himself; Richard Sapir's name is on it as co-creator of the series.
#36
Power Play
1979
Wesley Pruiss is a misunderstood and misled publishing entrepreneur. The dirtier his little magazine gets, the more money he makes. There seems to be no limit to the dirt of the money. His full-color monthly, called Gross, soon spawns a chain of raunchy nightclubs ("Grossouts") and now a spectacular motion picture was being planned. Disgusting. UnAmerican, even. Enter Remo and Chiun. Not to destroy, but the protect! Disgusting, but very American. Who'd want to kill a dirty publisher? Why worry about the rottenest, most depraved publication in history? Because of the oil industry and their concern over the growth of solar energy, obviously. Oil makes the world go'round. It'd be perverse to think otherwise... as you'll quickly learn in this thirty-sixth volume in the violent chronicle of the Destroyer, the invincible shatterer of worlds from Sinanju.
Warren Murphy wrote this book by himself; Richard Sapir's name is on it as co-creator of the series.
#37
Bottom Line
1979
The president is calling. Dr. Harold W. Smith, head of the secret agency known as CURE, took the phone from the bottom left drawer of his desk and answered with a sigh, "Yes, sir." The President of the United States could not directly assign CURE to do anything, he could only suggest. The one and only order any president could give CURE would be for its immediate dissolution. And five presidents now hadn't quite done that. Though all five were often tempted. "What do you know about the Lippincott case?" the Southern voice asked. Smith regurgitated a two-page, single-spaced capsule of hard information. "Uh, huh. Well, I hear there's a plot to kill all the Lippincotts, and it has something to do with animals. Weird experiments, like," "I see," Smith gagged. "Yeah, and I think it involves my having the Lippincotts use their clout to open up new trading markets in China." The hint was clear. The White House would like the Destroyer to take a look at the situation. "You'll be using those two, I suppose?" Smith rolled his eyes upward, "I imagine so." "Whatever you say," he drawled, "just, er, um, tell them to keep the deaths down.
#38
Bay City Blast
1979
vg+ paperback
#39
Missing Link
1980
Beer for Breakfast
That's how the brother-in-law of the President of the United States started his day. Beer was his food, his fuel, and his future, if not his finale.
His sudsy philosophy immersed him in continuing controversy, embarrassed the White House, and made him a media personality. It also got him some very lucrative consulting jobs for foreign governments.
Like the Libyans. They wanted his help in obtaining plutonium...For peaceful purposes, of course...a Holy War against Israel being the furthest thing from their minds.
Suddenly good old Buddy-Jack is missing. And the list of suspects seems endless. America's number-one beer drinker is finally muzzled. But by whom? The Bad Guys or the Good Guys? Terrorists or patriots? The Libyans or the Israelis? The Secret Service of the Mafia? The Destroyer?
#40
Dangerous Games
1980
The Olympics promise to be a rare relaxation in the tensions between the States and Russia, until a racial purist decides to punish America's multi-racial track-and-field team. The Americans, Russians, and Germans are confident that they can stop this racial terrorism until a bomb explodes in the super-secure Olympic village, killing two Russian security guards just before the torch is lit. As the threats come racing in, CURE's agents Remo and Chiun put on their running shoes.and join the U.S.'s Olympic team. Enlisting the aid of a beautiful and flexible Indian gymnast, Remo and Chiun race to track down the terrorists who vow to permanently disqualify America's track-and-field squad. But when the terrorists turn on Remo and Chiun, it's a sprint to the finish for CURE's agents to keep the Olympic torch aflame.
Warren Murphy is the main author of this book. It was coauthored by Robert J. Randisi (ghostwriter).
#41
Firing Line
1980
Ruby is too hot to handle, and Remo is being ordered to play fireman. But friendship comes first, even to a Master of Sinanju, and Remo is steaming mad. Mad enough, in fact, to walk out. It's out of the frying pan and into the fire because Chiun, deferring to tradition, refuses to quit CURE. And they both know that soon he could be hot on Remo's tail. But the heat's really on when Remo meets up with Sparky, a walking Molotov cocktail. New York firefighters are walking off the job, and an arson gang, with Sparky in tow, has decided to strike while the iron's hot. Unless they receive the ransom they demand, they'll turn the city into the biggest backyard barbecue in history.
#42
Timber Line
1980
Book by Murphy, Warren
#43
Midnight Man
1981
Now You See Him...
Law-enforcement officials think they've seen everything until they bump into Elmo Wimpler, the inventor of a substance that can make anything invisible. Wimpler's found his niche in life by dropping out of sight - literally - and killing with a device that crushes skulls.
His victims are multiplying, there are no clues in sight, and authorities are groping in the dark. Under suspicion themselves, Remo and Chiun set out to play blindman's bluff with the killer no one can see, but they, too, draw a blank.
As they stalk their quarry sight unseen, the assassin's ultimate target materializes: a deposed Middle Eastern sovereign with a $25 million price tag on his head. The United states has granted him asylum, and it's up to Remo and Chiun to bring the curtain down on Wimpler's organization before he sends the monarch to Kingdom Come....
Now You Don't!
Some evidence points to William "Ted" Joy as the main, uncredited, ghost-author of this book with Warren Murphy and Robert J. Randisi (another uncredited ghostwriter) as coauthors.
#44
Balance of Power
1981
Remo and Chiun must focus on the dizzy series of event connecting the banana republic of Hispania, the Peaches of Mecca, and a luscious blonde named Gloria X. The missing link lies in the tequila-soaked brain of Barney Daniels, an ex-CIA agent who is spirited away to a mental hospital when he tips a few wild stories to the press. Under the influence of an intoxicating woman, the groggy sot becomes a hired assassin and gets into some tight situations. Every cutthroat in New York City is plying him with drinks to find out what he knows, and Daniels is having a high time ... until someone slips him a mickey. It all comes back to his staggering memory in a dream: it's not the U.S. but the Russkies who are pouring missiles into the lush jungles of Hispania. Unless Remo and Chiun act fast, Washington, D.C. is likely to get blasted.
#45
Spoils of War
1981
Remo and Chiun, agents of the secret organization, CURE, investigate a bogus preacher responsible for the disappearance of soldiers from American army bases
#46
Next of Kin
1981
On the plush island of St. Maarten, Remo and Chiun encounter the mysterious and dangerous Dutchman—a man set on destroying the two men who possess the secret of the Korean martial art of Sinanju
#47
Dying Space
1982
Remo and Chiun, agents for CURE, are assigned to protect Dr. Frances Payton-Holmes, who has developed a computer that can seize control of any satellite in space
#48
Profit Motive
1982
It seems like a good idea at first—a bacterium developed to consume oil spills at sea. But when the bug mutates, threatening to convert all the petroleum in the world into wax, Western civilization is suddenly up for grabs. And a lot of slimy characters are determined not to let it slip through their fingers. Which is where Remo and Chiun come in—that is, until the Master of Sinanju cuts out ... joining the opposition. It seems that black gold generates a lot of the yellow kind and someone's offering to send a little something extra to a certain Korean village ... Remo's left in a real bind. And with his mentor bent on wiping out all that the ex-cop stands for, now, more than ever, it looks as if the Destroyer and CURE are nearing the end of the road ...
#49
Skin Deep
1982
Someone has made off with a nuclear-armed jet bomber just as world leaders are meeting in New York to discuss peace, requiring Chiun and Remo to come to the rescue
#50
Killing Time
1982
America's beautiful people are playing follow-the-leader with their latest guru, diet doctor Felix Foxx. As Foxx's disciples are dropping pounds, however, U.S. military leaders are dropping like flies. Coincidence? Maybe. But CURE's been counting casualties, and Remo and Chiun are dispatched to muscle in and settle the score. They arrive too late at Foxx's fat farm - a fool's paradise where the wealthy go to buy time. And where, it appears, the smart set have been losing a lot more than cellulite...Our heroes have stumbled onto an insidious plot - one that's eating away at the very core of Western civilization. And even racing against time, they've got a slim chance of stopping it...
#51
Shock Value
1983
It's a news wrinkle in A haberdashery clerk suddenly leaves his home in Ohio, flies to Italy, and kills a Red terrorist. Everyone figures the guy's just coming apart at the seams - until it happens again . . . and again . . .
A pattern's emerging, and the international powers are getting hot under the collar. Remo and Chiun are investigating before the U.S. is caught with its pants down. But then Harold W. Smith vanishes, along with the best brains in the world, and all at once CURE's less than a memory . . .
Remo and Chiun follow the thread of evidence to a tropical island and a man with a message - a man with trouble up his sleeve. And, they find it's just a matter of time before he takes the entire world to the cleaner's . . .
#52
Fool's Gold
1983
Remo and Chiun are sent to South America to safeguard a hidden cache of gold recently revealed by an ancient inscription on an archaeological find
#53
Time Trial
1983
Remo and Chiun are sent to Guatemala to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a team of American archaeologists
#54
Last Drop
1983
The High and the MightyIt's enough to give a drug pusher nightmares: thousands upon thousands of sober citizens are suddenly turning on and dropping out—for free—and the illicit narcotics business has ground to a halt.Under other circumstances, the pushers' plight would be cause for official celebration. But this time Washington's good and worried. And when the rock-ribbed Harold W. Smith, head of the supersecret agency CURE, knuckles under to the first buzz of his life, it's clearly time for Remo and Chiun to take matters into their own hands. Trouble is, Remo's suffering from a midlife career crisis, and he's flirting with retirement....With the backbone of America melting into Silly Putty, will the land of the free be transformed into the land of the Lotus-Easters? It;s a loaded question, and the answer lies with an 80-year-old Korean assassin and his rebellious pupil....
#55
Master's Challenge
1984
Remo Williams, a special agent for CURE, faces ritual combat with fighters from around the world, while Harold W. Smith, his boss, encounters a deadly new threat to national security
#56
Encounter Group
1984
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#57
Date with Death
1984
The heat's on. Bodies are strewn across the Sunbelt. Who they are and where they came from is shrouded in mystery. The casualties are still mounting when Remo and Chiun come to cool things off—unprepared for the discoveries that await them there, like the impregnable mountain fortress where 242 beautiful senoritas are being imprisoned. And the insisdious plot that has them earmarked as gifts for America's most powerful men. And the blackmail that's sure to follow... Rescue operations begin at once, with Remo's job—and life—on the line, as he and his mentor tackle a new Old West that's wilder than the shootout at the O.K. Corral!
#58
Total Recall
1984
Remo and Chiun investigate a far-out church whose leader may run a drug scam that uses juveniles as agents and eliminates them when their usefulness has ended
#59
The Arms of Kali
1984
1st edition Signet 1984 paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
#60
The End of the Game
1981
Remo Williams, the Destroyer, and his Oriental mentor, Chiun, match wits with world video-game champion Abner Buell, who has come up with a diabolical plan to control the world by turning men and women into electronic pawns
#61
Lords of the Earth
1985
Remo and Chium risk their lives to stop an insane millionaire's plot to unleash an army of killer insects
#62
The Seventh Stone
1985
Two thousand years is a long time to hold a grudge, but as long as the ancient Wo family’s bloodline flows, the memory of a long-ago slight will never be laid to rest. Passing their secrets from father to son, father to son, countless generations of Wos have built a global network with a single goal: killing the Master of Sinanju.
Remo Williams is The Destroyer, an all-American cop recruited—through highly unorthodox methods—into a secret government law-enforcement organization. Trained in the esoteric martial art of Sinanju by his aged Korean mentor, Chiun, Remo is America's last line of defense against mad scientists, organized crime, ancient undead gods, and anything else that threatens the Constitution. An action-adventure series leavened with social and political satire, the Destroyer novels have been thrilling readers worldwide for decades.
#63
The Sky Is Falling
1981
One spine line. A few brown spots at the bottom of pages 5-6-7. Printing 1986. Some page tanning. We ship first class mail immediately. Satisfaction guaranteed.
#64
The Last Alchemist
1986
Book by Murphy, Warren, Sapir, Richard
#65
Lost Yesterday
1986
Remo and his mentor Chuin match wits with the wealthy and evil Rubin Dolomo, director of POWERESSENCE, a cult that aims to use the ultimate brainwashing weapon to take control of the U.S. government.
#66
Sue Me
1986
All lawyers know the best way to make money is to take it from someone else – no one more so than the barristers at Palmer, Rizzutto & Schwartz. But waiting to find a nice, juicy lawsuit is so frustrating and those alimony checks wouldn’t write themselves, so they came up with a simple plan that would guarantee the firm’s financial security forever.
When a factory suffers a breakdown and an entire city is flooded with poison gas, Remo and Chiun are sent to investigate. Little do they know the genius who’s causing the “accidents” has a new target, something else he wants to break, and if the country is destroyed in the process, so be it.
After all, no one wants to be bored…
#67
Look into My Eyes
1987
The Destroyer Facing Destruction
Beautiful and brainy Russian operative Anna Chutesov had very little use for men—whether they were her Soviet superiors or her American adversaries.
But then again, she had never met a man like Remo. She had already found out what he could do in the sphere of sex.
Now she watched as he handled the two guards who wanted to take her back to Russia. Remo lifted his arms. Unfortunately he had two throats in his hands as he did so.
"That was amazing," Anna said. "I never even saw your hands move."
"What are you happy about? Now I've got to face the man who taught me," said Remo. "No one's better than him."
Remo and Chiun were on a collision course—and the world could end not with a bang but with their crash....
#68
An Old-Fashioned War
1987
Remo and Chiun find themselves divided when the whole world is open for conquest as an ancient evil spawns terror all over the globe
#69
Blood Ties
1987
Lyle Lavellete's revolutionary new car runs on cubes of compressed garbage, but every demonstration that he arranges with the Big Three automakers turns into an assassin's trap. CURE's number one agent, Remo Williams is blamed, and CURE sends Sinanju master Chiun out to stop Remo's double - only Remo is there to do the same thing.
#70
The Eleventh Hour
1987
This might be the end. Gravely injured in a collapsing inferno, Chiun isn’t recovering, and asks Remo to take him back to the village of Sinanju so he can live out his final days in peace. This may be the moment Remo has been training for, yet becoming the Master of Sinanju will mean giving up the country he has loved. Then again, it seems that America has sold Sinaju’s contract to the Russians… strange things are afoot in the Eleventh Hour.
Remo Williams is The Destroyer, an all-American cop recruited—through highly unorthodox methods—to serve in CURE, a covert government organization. Trained in the esoteric martial art of Sinanju by his aged Korean mentor, Chiun, Remo is America's last line of defense against mad scientists, organized crime, ancient undead gods, and anything else that threatens the Constitution. An action-adventure series leavened with social and political satire, the Destroyer novels have been thrilling readers worldwide for decades.
#71
Return Engagement
1988
Jack-booted stormtroopers. Mobs howling for racial purity. And on the podium, a man ranting and raving and holding his followers spellbound as swastika flags waved above them. Out of what hellish depth of the past had the hideously scarred man who called himself Herr Lutsturz emerged...with his artificial limbs that gave him superhuman strength...with his voluptuous blonde assistant Ilsa who seduced what he couldn't destroy...and with his burning desire to kill Dr. Harold W. Smith, head of the top-secret U.S. Agency CURE, even if he had to rip America into bloody shreds to do it...? Remo and Chiun had to find the answer to this monstrous mystery and the antidote to this irresistible evil.
#72
Sole Survivor
1988
The Russians who invented it called it the Sword of Damocles-a device that silently sterilized men and women alike. And now the Sword was in the worst possible hands-the out of whack android named Mr Gordons that had returned from outer space to wreak revenge on those who had sent it there. Remo. Chiun. And the entire U S population. America was heading for a fate worse than death unless Remo, Chium and an untrustworthy, supersexy Soviet superspy could defeat this cybernaut chameleon that could destroy and attack with ease.
#73
Line of Succession
1988
Remo's and Chiun's jobs at CURE are in danger, when a mysterious stranger saves two presidential candidates from assassination
#74
Walking Wounded
1988
IT DIDN'T TAKE TWO TO RAMBO—It didn't matter to Remo that his mentor Chiun told him he was acting like a child to want to go back to Vietnam on a mission of rescue and revenge. — It didn't matter to Remo that his superior Smith ordered him to abandon a plan that could upset the delicate balance of world peace. — Remo was out of his skull with remembered rage, and out of control of anyone who wanted to stop him from trying to spring a wartime buddy from a jungle hell. And the Destroyer plunged back into the past to fight a one-man war against an old enemy that would not die but could still kill without mercy and vanish like a ghoulish ghost....
#75
Rain of Terror
1989
fine paperback 1st edition
#76
The Final Crusade
1989
A greedy TV Evangelist has started an unholy war against Middle Eastern powers, using his crusade for a religious relic as an excuse. The Iranians have responded with terror attacks that threaten the U.S. CURE must intervene, but keep a low profile. An Ayatollah, oil company and fanatics all make a deadly and not so politically correct mix as Chiun must convince Remo that Sinanju still has all the answers—and power.
#77
Coin of the Realm
1989
Moo wasn't exactly your
typical island paradise
Its fat-cat master made his subjects slaves to his freed. Its beautiful princess was motivated by lust—for money or whatever. Its people were far deeper into digging their ruler's grave than his mines. And its only tourists were a dollar-demented psychic charlatan named Shane Billiken and a crew of money-mad murderers from the back pages of Soldier of Fortune.
In short, Moo was a bubbling caldron of every cardinal sin...and Remo and Chiun had to sweat blood to keep the lid on...as Chiun ran into an evil with too many tentacles even for him...and Remo found how dangerous a royal female could be when it came to attacking his principles—or whatever....
#78
Blue Smoke and Mirrors
1989
Remo must tear himself away from a luscious beauty and Chiun from a fascination with the supernatural in order to track the robber of radioactive secrets who manages to make entrance into a top-secret nuclear missile facility a piece of cake
#79
Shooting Schedule
1990
America is the target and Remo the fall guy in a terror plot made in Japan
#80
Death Sentence
1990
Remo Williams, his memory gone, finds himself in Florida State Prison on death row, while his partner Chiun, believing Williams is undercover and knows what he's doing, takes a vacation in Korea
#81
Hostile Takeover
2015
Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
#82
Survival Course
1990
Air Force One is down in South America with no apparent survivors. Mr. Gordons—aka the Vice Prez—is in full rescue mode and leaves a swath of destruction all the way to the Aztec pyramids. China and Remo must use their Sinanju powers against this unstoppable force, rescue the president and keep the mission a secret from the world.
ABOUT THE 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.
#83
Skull Duggery
1991
Destroyer 083: Skull Duggery [Mass Market Paperback]
#84
Ground Zero
1991
Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
#85
Blood Lust
1991
When an Iraiti ambassador disappears in the US, dictator Maddas Hinsein wants revenge. CURE sends Remo into danger as he falls under the spell of the goddess Kali, the Devourer of Life. Without Chiun, Remo may be lost and if he is, then so is the world.
#86
Arabian Nightmare
1991
Remo and Chiun face a diabolical dictator and a female fiend in a middle eastern hell.
#87
Mob Psychology
1992
The Destroyer series has more than 20 million copies in print, and has been providing quality action, adventure, and intrigue for over two decades. The 87th incredible volume finds our hero, Remo Williams, and his pal Chiun playing the Mafia in a deadly computer game—and it's not Pac-Man! Original.
#88
The Ultimate Death
1992
As people begin dropping dead after consuming Chicken King poultry, the Destroyer and his omnipotent Asian mentor begin to suspect that a vegetarian vigilante is on the loose.
#89
Dark Horse
1992
An ordinary California political campaign turns into a thriller when someone begins killing off the candidates, and it is up to Remo and Chiun to stop him.
#90
Ghost in the Machine
1992
Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
#92
The Last Dragon
1993
With more than 20 million copies in print, The Destroyer is one of the most successful adventure series ever. The Last Dragon takes readers to the heart of darkest Africa, where a shocking discovery is made when explorers find a living, breathing Brontosaurus. It's up to Remo and Chuin to kick into high gear to stop the terrorists and poachers who go after the gentle giant.
#93
Terminal Transmission
1993
When Captain Audion holds America hostage by jamming all television transmission and star news anchor Cheeta Ching is kidnapped, Remo must save the country by defeating Captain Audion and rescuing Cheeta.
#94
Feeding Frenzy
1993
MMMM, MMMM, BAD!
It was a dish to make fast-food freaks eat their hearts out and their heads off. You could cook it quick or swallow it raw. It was cost free, fat free, and fabulously yummy. Of course, some said you had to be bugs to try it, but one taste made you a believer. The trouble was, believers began turning into corpses. That's when Remo and Chiun came in to hunt down the evil ingredient in the murderous munchies, only to run into a famous U.S. Senator whose appetite ran to liquor and ladies, and an exotic beauty who made Chiun her instant enemy and Remo her erotic slave. The Destroyer was in a sexual stranglehold, his Oriental mentor in a huff, and unless they found a way out of the soup, they were both dead meat...
#95
High Priestess
1994
When an American national ascends the throne in China and begins a territorial war, Remo Williams and his martial arts master, Chiun, rush in to restore peace. Original.
#96
Infernal Revenue
1994
Remo and Chiun join forces with Harold Smith and his crime-fighting organization in their battle against an artificial intelligence computer chip called Friend that hijacks CURE's computer system and holds the world hostage to technoterrorism.
#97
Identity Crisis
1994
Learning that Harold Smith might be his biological father, Remo Williams rebels against the doctor, who does not want his son to remain with CURE, until an archenemy decides to use the strained relationship to his advantage. Original.
#98
Target of Opportunity
1994
Investigating a series of incidents involving actor impersonations of famous celebrities, Remo discovers that the First Lady has been kidnapped and replaced by a Hollywood double who seems to be targeting the president.
#99
The Color Of Fear
1995
A diabolical villain gets ahold of a laser that can cause wild mood swings, forcing Remo and Chiun to do battle in the dark with only their super-sharp sensory skills to lead them to the enemy.
#100
Last Rites
1995
Preparing for the Sinanju Rite of Attainment, Remo Williams finds his warrior skills pushed to their limits as he travels throughout the world, especially when he discovers that the only prize may be death. Original.
#101
Bidding War
1995
When CURE suffers budget cuts, the fabled assassin team of Chiun and Remo announce that their services can be bought by the highest bidder, and Dr. Smith fights panic while his competitors begin to destroy one another.
#102
Unite and Conquer
1996
Investigating demonic activities in South America, Remo and Chiun find themselves battling a guerrilla army of Aztec Indians and inhuman demons led by the god-figures of ancient Mexico, with only the avatar of Shiva the Destroyer to protect them.
#103
Engines of Destruction
1996
Somebody is playing the railroads like a giant train set, causing high-speed derailments that strew the rails the headless victims from coast to coast. As the carnage continues unchecked and the body count mounts, Dr. Harold Smith suspects the train terror is merely a decoy for the real target. Original.
#104
Angry White Mailmen
1996
When disgruntled postal employees launch a series of federal bombings and random massacres, Remo and Chiun are sent to root out the cause and learn that a deadly master plan that targets middle America is already in the works. Original.
#105
Scorched Earth
1996
As the White House and Pentagon cover up with reflective tinfoil to ward off deadly superheated rays from an invisible object in space that vaporized biobubble habitat scientists, Remo and Chiun are sent to Russia to stop the attacks before World War III breaks out. Original.
#106
White Water
1997
When fish begin to disappear from the coastal United States, the source of the problem is discovered in Canada and threatens relations between the neighboring countries, until the Destroyer starts trawling for answers. Original.
#107
Feast or Famine
1997
When a swarm of invisible, lethal insects invades America, the pesticide-immune creatures begin to devastate the entire nation's farms, and Remo and the Master of Sinaju confront both the insects and the Iowa Disorganized Militia. Original.
#108
Bamboo Dragon
1997
HOT, MOIST, DANGEROUS
Deep in the Malaysian jungle, a group of scientists gets a lethal surprise, and a lone survivor rants about a prehistoric monster who eats men alive.
The survivor dies with bizarre symptoms - and CURE's Dr. Harold Smith wants answers. So Remo, his favorite problem solver, finds himself armed with a brand-new doctorate and joining an international expedition to look for the next Jurassic park.
But things heat up even more in the jungle. Who's to tell what the adventure will be, what with a sexy lady professor, the hidden agenda of expedition members, and the hot breath of something big, dangerous and undreamed of deep in the rain forst's heart.
#109
American Obsession
1997
An expensive hormone treatment that transforms body fat to muscle overnight has unexpectedly deadly side effects, and Remo and Chiun take on a greedy corporation and an army of killer clients to stop the deaths. Original.
#110
Never Say Die
1998
Discovering bizarre genetic links between a series of killings, CURE's Dr. Harold Smith puts Remo and Chiun on a decades-old trail that eventually leads to a shadowy global security corporation. Original.
#111
The Prophet of Doom
1998
A rash of missing women in the American West has the police spooked. The only clues point to Prophetess Esther Seer-Clear and her Church of the Absolute and Incontrovertible Truth. The Church's large, fortified compound in the rural West is secure for good reason: most of its congregation is comprised of politicians, senators and high-powered executives, anxious to get a glimpse into the future. Remo and Chiun are sent in to investigate—and find the Church is a more horrible and dangerous place than they ever could have imagined.
#113
The Empire Dreams
1998
Remo takes on an evil visionary leader of a neo-Nazi brotherhood with a secret, high-tech agenda for seizing control of the world. Original.
#117
Deadly Genes
1999
Whe a series of gruesome murders occur after the introduction of a new genetically engineered animal meant as a cure for world hunger, Remo and Chiun find themselves matching wits with a mad geneticist and his terrifying creations. Original.
#118
Killer Watts
2000
Transformed into a bionic monster by a military experiment gone badly wrong, psychotic exsoldier Elizu Roote uses his newfound powers to kill innocent civilians, and, with Remo in a coma, it is up to Chium and Dr. Smith, to find a way to stop his lethal rampage. Original.
#119
Fade to Black
2000
Art imitates life in Tinsel Town as real-life events are mirrored in small independent films, a situation that leads to the United States president's life being placed in jeopardy. Original.
#125
The Wrong Stuff
2001
A mechanical killer space spider goes on the rampage in Florida. This, however, is no simple angry arachnid robbing armored cars and supermarkets. It's the adopted new brainchild of the reality-challenged head of NASA and his elite cadre of Space Cadets.
But not even Captain Kirk is aware of the nightmare that's been unleashed in the name of interplanetary exploration. An old enemy is back in action and, with a click and a whir, can morph from titanium spider into his ugly old android self. And with NASA and America's favorite horror writer in his steel-plated back pocket, he's got a leg—or eight—up on his true mission: destroy the Destroyer.
This time, failure is not an option.
#126
Air Raid
2002
Don't Breathe the Air
They are tiny, genetically engineered blue seeds that mature quickly into trees that literally suck all the oxygen out of the air. They're the twisted experiment of the earth-friendly but highly secretive Congress of Concerned Scientists, and now they've been snatched by its head, Dr. Hubert St. Clair.
Having killed off all but one of his scientific team, he's leading Remo and Chiun on a chase through the proverbial forest. He's got enough seeds to choke off the world's oxygen supply, and the ability to create environmental disasters at will. Battling everything from acid rain to blistering heat to frigid cold, the Destroyer races to thwart double disaster in the Amazon rainforest: St. Clair is planting seeds like a maniac and a U.S. President prepares to nuke Brazil into oblivion.
#127
Market Force
2002
Seeking to take over the world, a secret enemy is controlling America's great natural resource—the boob tube Using television to hypnotize and control with subliminal messages, ordinary couch potatoes are quickly becoming raging mobs programmed to kill. Even worse, it appears that whoever is behind the TV conspiracy also knows about Cure and their plans to protect the world. Will Remo and Chiun be victims of bad programming, and kill each other? Readers will want to tune in to Market Force for all the action
#128
The End of the Beginning
2002
A secret crime-fighting organization called Cure chooses Remo Williams, a Newark beat cop, to become America's secret weapon against evil. But first, Remo is framed for murder and sentenced to death. After a fake execution, Remo is secretly handed over to an extremely put-out Korean killing machine named Chiun. Chiun, the reigning master of Sinanju, is in charge of Remo's training...and it is there that the adventures begin
Master's Line is a two-book story arc that revisits the early days of Remo Williams' training as Master of Sinanju—fans will be drawn back to the rack for the exciting conclusion, Father to Son, in October 2002.
#129
Father to Son
2002
There's some nasty sibling rivalry in the family assassination business . . .
For Remo, Sinanju's Holiest tradition is "cash up front"
But as his long road to the rank of Reigning Master of the venerable house of assassins nears its end, the Time of Succession ritual begins. For the enforcement arm of CURE, this means making his way around the globe, killing the best assassins money can buy—and proving to kings and presidents alike that Sinanju is the primo strategic weapon around.
For a reasonable fee, of course.
But there is a storm cloud on the horizon of Chiun's retirement and Remo's promotion: a dark nemesis has been reborn from the fires of evil and has unleashed his plot for vengeance. He starts by looting Chiun's treasure-filled basement in Sinanju. But he won't stop until he has fulfilled a prophecy of doom that even Chiun may not be able to thwart: the death of the Destroyer.
#130
Waste Not, Want Not
1998
When the South American country of Mayana discovers a brilliant new device that can bring relief to their poverty-stricken nation by turning actual trash into cash, Dr. Harold Smith, wary of this turn of events, sends Remo and Chiun to Mayana where they uncover a maniacal plan for world domination. Original.
#131
Unnatural Selection
2003
Sexy—and totally insane—scientist Dr. Judith White returns with yet another plan for achieving world domination. She's putting her formula into a brand of bottled water that's all the rage in Manhattan's boardrooms and cocktail parties. When one of CURE's own falls prey to Dr. White's diabolical scheme, his secrets may give the doctor the extra bite she needs to eat The Destroyer for lunch.
#132
Wolf's Bane
2003
Fast-paced action. Mind-twisting irony. Page-turning excitement. Look no further than The Destroyer(R) to attract a large audience of action-adventure book buyers. A wild child of the bayous, Leon Grosvenor is a two-legged freak show of shaggy hair and talons with an insatiable hunger for raw flesh. These unique abilities make him the perfect contract killer for Cajun mafia boss Armand "Big Crawdaddy" Fortier. Their current target: Remo Williams. As Leon and his pack circle closer to The Destroyer, the question remains: Who is the hunter...and who is dog meat?
#133
Troubled Waters
2003
Complete with skull and crossbones fluttering in the wind, Thomas "Captain" Kidd is the new scourge of the Caribbean, raiding unsuspecting pleasure craft and pursuing the great piratical tradition of looting, pillaging and plank walking. When he kidnaps the daughter of a senator, CURE sets out to kick some serious pirate booty, determined to dispatch the sea raiders to an afterlife between the devil and the deep blue sea.
#135
Political Pressure
2004
One by one, America's most corrupt public servants are dying violent deaths. It seems the Morals and Ethics Behavior Establishment—MAEBE—is cleaning up the political menu so that their own candidate, Orville Flicker, will succeed in his manipulative campaign to win the Oval Office. Can Remo and Chiun stop the bad guys from getting whacked? MAEBE
#136
Unpopular Science
2004
Awry and technological adventure in which a tenacious enemy is using an ingenious battle-bot named Ironhand to steal top-secret information and use it to destroy CURE. Remo and Chiun must outwit this machine that is nastier and more dangerous than any other—and one capable of short-circuiting CURE beyond repair
#137
Industrial Evolution
2004
A couple of techno-geniuses on the wrong side of the law, a corrupt politician and a secret civilization of freaky-looking subterranean dwellers who haven't seen the light of day in a long time all add up to one big pain for Remo in this newest Destroyer episode.
#138
No Contest
2005
\- New York Times bestselling author Warren Murphy has over 30 million copies of his books in print.
#139
Dream Thing
2005
Sa Mangsang, a strange seismic disturbance in the south Pacific, has put the world in a fighting mood and Remo is ready to face it head-on.
#141
Frightening Strikes
2005
\- The Destroyer series is a unique blend of mind-twisting irony and hard-hitting action adventure that entertains with each new episode.
#142
Mindblower
2006
When an engineering genius with a deadly vendetta begins destroying things with his supersonic air cannon, Remo and CURE must find a way to stop him before the whole world is blown away.
Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
#143
Bad Dog
2006
HEY, THEY WERE GOING TO DIE ANYWAY...
Lou MacMayor, president of the Institute of Nationalized Humane Health Care, has the solution to America's health insurance problems. He's figured out how to take a huge bite out of costs by using brilliantly trained Swedish Elkhounds to sniff out, then snuff out, those costly, disease-carrying people who send premiums skyrocketing.
Though the cost benefit of culling the herd of humanity looks great on paper, in reality it's fairly messy business, and the dog attacks plaguing the U.S. have come to the attention of CURE. Harold Smith wants to know who let the dogs out, and why they are attacking the elderly and infirm. Remo's happy to turn MacMayor and his Scandinavian breeder into hamburger - but it's the elusive, mysterious dog handler known as The Foreman whose extraordinary skills give new meaning to the phrase "dog eat dog."
#144
Holy Mother
2006
Breaking up is hard to do...especially if you're Kali, an ancient Hindu goddess with unfinished business and a desire to rule the world through the immutable powers of her old boyfriend, Shiva the Destroyer. She's found the perfect vassal, a woman named Dawn Summens, who bounced back from the dead with everything intact except her sanity. Now she's the high priestess of a wild new cult called "Remo" on the voodoo-friendly island of Haiti, where all hell is breaking loose.Before Remo can sort out sex-crazed cultists from the purely evil deities, he's lured into the lair of the lovely Dawn, losing a battle with self-control that could be the beginning of the end. Chiun, too, is losing her own battle against an old enemy with the power to challenge, perhaps even defeat, Sinanju. Can anything stop Remo from becoming the Destroyer of old, with all the power—channeled through his ancient lover, Kali—to destroy the world?
#145
Dragon Bones
2006
Dragon Bones by Murphy & Sapir released on Oct 10, 2006 is available now for purchase.
#146
Choke Hold
2007
Pity poor tobacco tycoon Edgar Rawly. Thanks to lawsuits, government meddling and the inexplicable deaths of many of his best customers, his megabucks industry is gasping its last breath. That is, until the introduction of the Cheyenne Smooths, Rawly's latest product. Not quite tobacco, not quite legal, more addictive than crystal meth. Suddenly customers are once more beating a path to his door. That's when the bodies start piling up. Seems people are not only dying to taste the flavor of a Cheyenne Smooth, they're killing for it.
Enter Remo Williams, the Destroyer, and Chiun, the deadly Master of Sinanju. They've been sent to kick some butt, but wind up in danger of being snuffed out themselves.
Turns out Edgar Rawly is not the only shady character to recognize the value of the Cheyenne Smooths, and things really start to heat up when Remo bumps into a cult of ancient Chinese assassins, an Asian crime lord, and a worldwide addiction that just might send civilization up in smoke...and dump the Destroyer on the ash heap of history.
#147
The New Destroyer
Guardian Angel
2007
THE DESTROYER NEVER DIES ...
VIVA LA REVOLUCION!
When a dozen border patrol volunteers are murdered in New Mexico, apparent victims of Mexican nationals, Dr. Harold W. Smith of the super-secret agency CURE worries the first salvo in a new border dispute has been fired. His worst fears are realized with the appearance of the charismatic Santa Ana, a uniformed, would-be despot with a silver tongue and a thirst for bloody revolution.
General Santa Anna has redrawn the border between the U.S. and Mexico to fit his own twisted version of reality, and thousands of illegal aliens are drawn to his message of liberation. The Southwest is on fire, and as the revolution explodes the entire nation is at risk. It seems the brazen general has planned for every eventuality. Except one...
Mostly MIA for the past four years, Remo Williams, CURE's one man enforcement arm, has returned to the U.S. just in time to prevent Armageddon. With his Korean mentor Chiun, the Master of Sinanju, at his side, America just might live to see mañana.
But it turns out Santa Anna is not the only threat to The Destroyer. Remo not only must save the United States from civil war, he must square off against the only woman who ever killed him...
#148
Dead Reckoning
2008
Death takes no holidays.
So small it can't be seen with the naked eye.
So deadly it can wipe out millions in minutes.
If you breathe it, you're already dead...
A daring daylight prison break at a top security federal penitentiary frees the infamous "20th hijacker," the only 9/11 terrorist to miss his flight that September morning. It seems Mustafa Mohammed's been hiding a toxic secret right under the noses of federal authorities. Soon, hundreds start dying throughout the country; the CDC classifies the virus responsible as "UNKNOWN."
Luckily, Dr. Harold W. Smith always knows the most effective treatment for what ails America, and dispatches Remo Williams and his mentor, the magnificent Chiun, to administer the cure. But this time, the usual prescription might not be strong enough.
Remo wants to destroy the bio-weapon. The antiwar crowd wants to steal it, the Iranians want to duplicate it, and poor little Mustafa just wants to use it to obliterate an American city and please his supernatural boss: a sinister figure with a skull-like face hell-bent on eliminating mankind.
With millions of lives in the balance, this is one day the Destroyer can't call in sick.
#149
Killer Ratings
2008
Don't Touch That Dial!
In the cutthroat world of evening news, where "if it bleeds it leads" is the industry’s lifeblood, the dead-last BCN network is hemorrhaging viewers. On the chopping block is million-dollar anchor Kitty Coughlin, who is one ratings point away from early termination. But when a group of armed men hijack her plane and stage a spectacular near-miss of one of America's most famous landmarks, Kitty's eyewitness account helps BCN achieve a remarkable ratings rally.
Kitty is riding high...until the ratings bubble bursts and her career goes back on life support. Then the next catastrophe strikes.
Wherever Kitty Coughlin goes, disaster—and ratings gold—follows. Is Kitty's uncanny ability to be at the center of the news storm sheer dumb luck or very bad news?
Harold W. Smith of the supersecret agency CURE knows a thing or two about disaster management. He sends in Remo Williams and the remarkable Chiun to tune in, turn off, and pull the plug on whoever is putting Americans at risk.
#150
The End of the World
2012
An ancient God awakens, Remo and Chiun must face 'The End of the World'.
#151
Bully Pulpit
2017
An upstart and inept terrorist group is causing havoc as their bombs explode seemingly at random. Earthquakes also rock the planet and there seems to be a link–could the prayerful preacher be in on the mayhem? A beautiful foreign agent and Remo must somehow keep their secrets but work together as Chiun’s life hangs by a thread and the world hangs in the balance.
#152
Continental Divide
2018
With the Presidential election in full swing, “crumbling infrastructure” has become far more than a political talking bridges are falling apart all across America, leaving CURE baffled. Is a bloom of renegade algae eating away the bridge supports? If so, why is the water still safe? Are the bridges being targeted by terrorists? If so, why are the targets deserted? This would normally be a job for the Department of Transportation, not the assassin’s art of Sinanju—but after a great scientist is abducted by aliens, and a team of amateur detectives and their dog start nosing around for clues, the mystery suddenly gets deeper, weirder, and much more dangerous than Remo and Chiun ever expected. With America’s roadways on the verge of the greatest traffic jam in history, and the moon wreaking havoc on Remo’s behavior, Remo and Chiun run into an old friend they had hoped never to see again. Remo had better get his head in the game, and fast, or his years of Sinanju training will be nothing more than water under the bridge!
#154
Blood Brotherhood
2021
Fiends from an ancient Chinese death cult bring forth a deadly virus that defies time and science. Their evil plan is to divide, conquer, and destroy the House of Sinanju once and for all…even if that means the death of every person on the planet. Talk about overkill!
This won’t be an easy task for Remo and Chiun, who have faced the ancient vampires before, and barely lived to tell the tale. Remo is hurt; while he clings to life, Chiun must face the terrifying, ghostly Leader, and his legions of acolytes, alone. But this fight may be too much for one man—even if that one man is the Master of Sinanju.
Will Remo and Chiun be able to reunite in time to stop the Chinese plague in its tracks? Or will it be something that even CURE can’t cure, and the Destroyer can’t destroy?
As the number of infected people continues to swell, the end of days keeps coming closer and closer…
#157
Savage Song
2012
She is the world's greatest entertainer; in a few brief years, she has changed show business forever and tens of millions of people follow her every move. Now it looks like someone is trying to end her career for good. She's not the kind to roll over and play dead for anybody.
The red phone in the White House is lifted for the first time in years and a request is made to "Keep her safe"—in the interest of national security, of course.
Enter Remo Williams, the Destroyer, and Chiun, the Master of Sinanju and the world's greatest assassin. They're ordered to keep the music world's brightest star safe by CURE at the behest of the President.
Move over, Barbra. Watch out, Cheeta Ching. Sorry, Judge Jenny. Chiun has gone gaga over a new lady. Killers, stand back. You're messing with the wrong girl and you ain't seen nothing yet.
#161
Destroyer World
The Way of the Assassin
2003
Destroyer The Way Of The Assassin Words of love, life and death from Chiun, Master of Sinanju. The Premiere assassin of this or any age, Chiun, reigning Master of Sinanju, offers you his wisdom and words to live by. Enjoy this glimpse into the mind of the world's greatest and funniest assassin ~ the creation of Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy.
#163
Destroyer World
The Movie That Never Was
2004
Originally titled "Created The Destroyer," this is the original screenplay written by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir. It's refreshing to see their name together in print again, and it's great to see their unique style applied to the screen adaptation of their works.
Who how to do a Destroyer movie better than the creators?
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.
Authors
James Mullaney
Author · 11 books
I'm the ghostwriter, author or co-author of 26 novels, including the "New" Destroyers Guardian Angel, Choke Hold. Dead Reckoning and Killer Ratings. I've written for Marvel Comics, co-authored The Destroyer series guide The Assassin's Handbook 2 and I have a short story in the upcoming Green Hornet Casefiles anthology.
Michael Newton
Author · 18 books
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. From Wikipedia: "Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Newton first began work on the Executioner series by co-writing "The Executioner's War Book" with Don Pendleton in 1977. Since then he has been a steady writer for the series with almost 90 entries to his credit, which triples the amount written by creator Don Pendleton. His skills and knowledge of the series have allowed him to be picked by the publishers to write the milestone novels such as #100, #200, and #300. Writing under the pseudonym Lyle Brandt, Michael Newton has also become a popular writer of Western novels. He has written a number of successful non-fiction titles as well, including a book on genre writing (How to Write Action Adventure Novels). His book Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida won the Florida Historical Society's 2002 Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History. Newton's "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology" won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006." Pen names: Lyle Brandt, Don Pendleton, Jack Buchanan Bibiliography available here.
