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Acid Rock [The Destroyer: 13]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 contra... more info>> (Published: 1973)
Words: 47736 - Reading Time: 136-190 min.
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The Lords of Discipline
by Pat Conroy
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Years before it became a center of controversy for its traditional exclusion of women, South Carolina's venerable military academy The Citadel inspired novelist Pat Conroy (who is one of its graduates) to craft a powerful and vivid story he called The Lords of Discipline. The novel takes place at the fictional Carolina Military Institute, and the author specifically notes that he based his story in details drawn from the experiences of cadets at many other such schools. The burden of tradition a... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Judgment Day [The Destroyer: 14]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 traine... more info>> (Published: 1974)
Words: 46179 - Reading Time: 131-184 min.
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Murder Ward [The Destroyer: 15]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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... more info>> (Published: 1974)
Words: 46615 - Reading Time: 133-186 min.
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Oil Slick [The Destroyer: 16]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 ground to a halt. And then there is Chiun, Remo's Korean friend and teacher. Chiun's family holds a centuries-old contr... more info>> (Published: 1974)
Words: 47859 - Reading Time: 136-191 min.
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Last War Dance [The Destroyer: 17]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 finding the deadly weap... more info>> (Published: 1974)
Words: 41183 - Reading Time: 117-164 min.
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Funny Money [The Destroyer: 18]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 its 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 ... more info>> (Published: 1975)
Words: 47975 - Reading Time: 137-191 min.
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Holy Terror [The Destroyer: 19]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 lost 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 t... more info>> (Published: 1975)
Words: 47405 - Reading Time: 135-189 min.
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Assassins Play-Off [The Destroyer: 20]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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For centuries, the ancient House of Sinanju is recognized as the center of learning for all the martial arts. From the ancestral nucleus of Oriental power and prestige have come the world's deadliest assassins and killers, also man's greatest protectors and warriors. To become a Master of Sinanju, however, is to totally perfect one's mental, spiritual, and physical powers. Very few mortals possess even a fraction of the necessary skills. Mere muscle or brains do not matter. Rarer still have been... more info>> (Published: 1975)
Words: 44219 - Reading Time: 126-176 min.
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Deadly Seeds [The Destroyer: 21]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 surviva... more info>> (Published: 1975)
Words: 44863 - Reading Time: 128-179 min.
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Brain Drain [The Destroyer: 22]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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Artists, composers, and writers are being mutilated and destroyed in the bloodiest murders in police history. The workings of a maniac are 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 hi... more info>> (Published: 1976)
Words: 42296 - Reading Time: 120-169 min.
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Child's Play [The Destroyer: 23]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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, ... more info>> (Published: 1976)
Words: 42282 - Reading Time: 120-169 min.
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King's Curse [The Destroyer: 24]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 follow... more info>> (Published: 1976)
Words: 40574 - Reading Time: 115-162 min.
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Moonlight Gardener
by Robert Fish
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What is Charley Crompton hiding? The police in a small town aren't sure, but when he is reported digging in his garden in the middle of the night soon after his wife disappears, it seems like something is up. This is the intriguing premise for Robert L. Fish's enigmatic, Edgar-award-winning short story "Moonlight Gardener." When we meet him, Charley seems both crazy and evasive. Why does he answer the door holding a bloodstained hatchet? And do we believe him when he claims that he was only digg... more info>> Edgar Award Winner
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Death Check [The Destroyer: 2 ]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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. (Palm Formats Exclusively at Fictionwise) (Published: 1972)
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Kill or Cure [The Destroyer: 11]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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A plot designed by the United State's 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 an... more info>> (Published: 1973)
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Slave Safari [The Destroyer: 12]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 no... more info>> (Published: 1973)
Words: 46444 - Reading Time: 132-185 min.
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The Singing Marine
by Kit Reed
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When you have been dead and buried, many things worry you but nothing frightens you. A marine, recently back from the dead, faces a mysterious test. (A retelling of the fable "The Juniper Tree".) (Published: 1995) World Fantasy Award Nominee
Words: 5285 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
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Some Safe Place
by Kit Reed
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Hoping to utilize his latent hypnotic skills ... and bypass the horrors of the 9 to 5 world ... Ben Messinger enrolls in a hypnotherapy institute where he excels quickly enough to be entrusted with the psychic care of a wealthy and beautiful agoraphobic. Success in the early sessions with his new patient brings him confidence that she will be able to re-enter the world outside her small house in the Hollywood Hills, but as he uncovers the dormant underlayers of her past, Ben is embroiled in a fa... more info>> (Published: 1999)
Words: 94368 - Reading Time: 269-377 min.
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Created, the Destroyer [The Destroyer: 1]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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When ex-New Jersey cop Remo Williams is fried for the murder of a dope-dealing lousy 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 is about to begin a series of secret plots to dissolve the underworld. (Palm Formats Exclusively at Fictionwise) (Published: 1972)
Words: 51644 - Reading Time: 147-206 min.
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Screams Are Not Enough
by Chuck Rothman
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Thanks to sensicubes, audiences can experience the feelings of an actor in a film. Carol finds she's being stalked by a killer. But the killer may not be real. And Carol might not be, either. She has to find out. (Published: 1993)
Words: 4021 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
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Calendar Girl
by John F. D. Taff
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There are people who can't live without their date books. Josh is one of them. But his new wife wonders if he sets the dateBook or if the dateBook sets him ... literally. And even once she thinks she's gained control over him, has she really? (Published: 2002)
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Sharp Edges
by John F. D. Taff
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What goes on in the mind of a serial killer? Is it detailed planning of his crimes, the confident selection of victims, careful disposal of the evidence? Or is it something more amorphous, alternating between memories and secrets kept even from himself? (Published: 2002)
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Summit Chase [The Destroyer: 8]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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The President of Scambia's life is in danger when one sleezy goon schemes to assassinate not only a leader, but immobilize and destroy an entire country and transform its peaceful society into a thundering safe haven for international hoods. Remo Williams and his protege Chiun descend on the scene to combat the treacherous plot ... but not without a fight. (Published: 1973)
Words: 45278 - Reading Time: 129-181 min.
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Union Bust [The Destroyer: 7]
by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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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 of being threatened until Remo Williams moves in to dissolve danger in a deadly game. (Published: 1973)
Words: 53905 - Reading Time: 154-215 min.
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