Book Review By Chris Bunton
Back in the 80s, I started reading action book series of various kinds. I read Conan. I read The Executioner, and later the Mack Bolan series. I read a series called the Survivalist and The Destroyer.
Recently I started rereading some of those series from my high school days.
Why?
I guess I was seeking some familiarity. Maybe rekindle the joy of reading for simple pleasure.
It’s one of the reasons I always like older or classic books. There’s not a feeling of being force-fed an ideology.
Of course, there probably is an ideology in those older books, but it is an escape into the past.
In this review I’m talking about the Destroyer series.
It was first written by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir but they had a falling out and Murphy took over.
The series spans over 150 volumes, from 1971 to 2013.
The Destroyer occurs in a time when crime in the world is rampant and uncontrolled.
So, the government creates a top secret organization called CURE, which has free reign to go after criminals of all kinds, and dispose of them by any means necessary.
To this end, the organization only has a few people who know it’s true purpose and even fewer operatives.
It boils down to one actually. Remo Williams. The Destroyer.
Being trained in modern killing tactics and ancient assassination skills by his Korean trainer Chiun. He wages a secret war on crime.
In this first book, “Created The Destroyer” Remo is recruited by CURE in a way that renders him dead to the world as far as his past is concerned.
He meets Chiun who is the world’s top assassin from a Korean village of assassins, who have served kings and leaders for millenia.
Thus begins the training and missions of The Destroyer.
The books are action packed, humorous and very entertaining. If you like martial arts, action and crime fiction. This series is for you.
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That’s a fair assessment of the basics. Diving deeper, the master of Sinanju (if I recall right) is the greatest martial artist alive. He teaches Remo near superhuman abilities. The stories were often a satirical critique of our culture.
So true. Thanks for your comment.