Warren Murphy Books In Order

Created The Destroyer (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Death Check (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Chinese Puzzle (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Mafia Fix (With: Richard Sapir)

When ten billion filthy drug dollars’ worth of hero*in 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?

Dr. Quake (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Death Therapy (With: Richard Sapir)

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!

Union Bust (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Summit Chase (With: Richard Sapir)

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 prot g Remo Williams descend on the scene to combat the treacherous plot…
but not without a fight.

Murder’s Shield (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Terror Squad (With: Richard Sapir)

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 prot g 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.

Kill or Cure (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Slave Safari (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Acid Rock (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Judgment Day (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Murder Ward (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Oil Slick (With: Richard Sapir)

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…

Last War Dance (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Funny Money (With: Richard Sapir)

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!

Holy Terror (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Assassin’s Play Off (With: Richard Sapir)

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 the men who dare to even approach the lowest steps of this shrine to violence and sudden death at Sinanju. The masters of Sinanju are the sun source and essence of the martial arts since prehistory. Recent upstart fighting techniques such as Kung Fu, Karate, Ninja, Aikido are but minor variations in the deadly armament of a Master. Only foreplay to the Grand Battle. And now, for the first time, a Westerner, a white man, Remo Williams, is defending the Holy Place against his relentless archenemy, Nuihc. Not since the Mongol invasions and the barbaric Chinese warlords has the land trembled in such anticipation. The scenario begins in New Jersey. The die is cast in a U.S. government submarine. Now Chiun and the Premier of Korea will witness the Grand Battle. And Remo Williams the Destroyer is being allowed but one blow. One split second opportunity to punch, slash, chop, smash or kick…
The ghosts of a thousand warriors dance in the dust as the two men face each other. And Chiun knows.

Deadly Seeds (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Brain Drain (With: Richard Sapir)

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 coming: irresistible force, Sinanju, meeting indestructible object, Mr. Gordons.

Child’s Play (With: Richard Sapir)

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!

King’s Curse (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Sweet Dreams (With: Richard S. Meyers)

When a brilliant professor invents the world’s first fantasy realization device, allowing anyone to watch their own secret fantasies on television, the Mafia are out to steal it, TV executives want to control it, and Remo and Chiun might be the only ones able to prevent it from killing everyone. As the death toll mounts, Remo, the Destroyer, and his teacher Chiun race to decipher the device’s dangerous and deadly effects. But will the secret agents be able to resist the lethal temptation to watch their own secret fantasies?

In Enemy Hands (With: Richard Sapir)

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!

The Last Temple (With: Richard Sapir)

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-Na*zis 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.

Ship of Death (With: Richard Sapir)

Beware Greeks bearing gifts especially when it’s billionaire Demosthenes Skouratis selling the biggest pleasure cruise ship ever built to the United Nations for their headquarters. CHEAP! Over three times the size of the QE II, this huge vessel has everything from high tech offices and communications equipment to luxury spas, casinos, restaurants and palatial apartments. But the deal doesn’t include a dozen dead bodies and a hull full of bombs being rigged to explode the night of the opening gala! And Remo Williams, the Destroyer, plans to crash the party. Tipped off the plot when CURE director Harry Smith is getting beaten up by some tough crew members, Remo and Sinanju master Chiun blast full steam ahead, drowning the sleazy rats and save the UN from a watery grave.

The Final Death (With: Richard Sapir)

The fat’s in the fire when a Texas beef mogul is found skinned and gutted like one of his steers. Soon after, innocent people across the country are dying from eating meat injected with a powerful poison. Fearing a threat to national security, the White House orders Remo Williams, the Destroyer, to find the butchers and stop the killing. The grisly deaths are no mystery to Chiun, Remo’s Sinanju master, but the work of an ancient Chinese vegetarian cult of murderers sworn to kill the meateaters of the West. Now the Destroyer’s got to cut off the fanatics before they slaughter the U.S.!

Mugger Blood (With: Richard Sapir)

Word on the streets is don’t mess with the Lords. The Saxon Lords kill for cigarette money and rule the New York ghettos with fear. Even the cops stay off their turf. But one man can’t stay away when he reads about the brutal beating of an old woman in broad daylight. Remo Williams, the Destroyer, goes hunting for punks. Stalking the slums with Chiun, master Sinanju assassin, Remo starts his own program of urban renewal. The Big Apple will never be the same.

The Head Men (With: Richard Sapir)

Remo Williams, aka The Destroyer, is being summoned to the nation’s capital by the White House to expose a vicious plot to assassinate the President. The FBI and CIA are coming up empty in their investigation of a string of murderers of top executives around the country and now they need the special talents only The Destroyer can provide. Cutting to the core of the deadly conspiracy, Remo discovers a security leak on Capitol Hill itself and tightens his lethal noose. But, can he and Chiun, his Sinanju mentor, stop the killers before the President becomes the last corpse in the long line of The Head Men?

Killer Chromosomes (With: Richard Sapir)

What happens when an insane female scientist discovers a genetic link between species and experiments on herself? She transforms into a tiger the man eating kind. Wild, beautiful and deadly, Dr. Sheila Feinberg tests her new savage nature and leaves a trail of mangled male corpses behind. Insatiable, she stalks the only man worthy of her hunger for power, Remo Williams, the Destroyer. Ordered to stop the menace, Remo becomes both hunter and bait for this she devil and winds up her prisoner, the stud she needs to create a new race. As Remo fights her bloodlust, master assassin Chiun circles in for the final kill to end the threat to humankind!

Voodoo Die (With: Richard Sapir)

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?

Chained Reaction (With: Richard Sapir)

Black is not only beautiful, it’s Ruby Gonzalez…
the wild CIA lady with a sure cure for what ails Remo and Chiun. 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. 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. It will be all over 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. Then bucks and Ruby will do…

Last Call (With: Richard Sapir)

During a CIA budget war, a group of assassins mistakenly triggers an ingenious CIA plot originally planned in the 1950s and a worldwide 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?

Power Play (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Bottom Line (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Bay City Blast (With: Richard Sapir)

‘Yes,’ Smith said, ‘he is taking over the city. He is giving an open invitation to organized crime to move its operations into Bay City. He’s opening the piers so that contraband can move in and out easily, so drugs can flow freely. Mob interests are coming from all over the country…
setting up cutting rooms and jewelry factories for stolen diamonds…
printing facilities for counterfeit stock certificates and securities…
major counting rooms for what may become the nation’s biggest illegal gambling operations. It’ll be the crime capital of the U.S. within a few months!’ ‘Well, there’s capitalism at work again. Proving that our system works best,’ Remo said. ‘…
And we want you and Chiun to keep him alive. Of course, he won’t know who you are or who you work for,’ Smith said. ‘Or why. Which includes us, as usual. But that’s OK, if we can’t kill him with kindness, then we’ll CURE him,’ Remo said. ‘Let’s not get into that,’ Smith gasped.

Missing Link

Beer for breakfast, that’s how the brother in law of the President of the United States starts his day. Beer is his food, his fuel, and his future, if not his finale. His sudsy philosophy immersed him in a continuing controversy, embarrassing the White House, and making him a media personality. It is also giving him some very lucrative consulting jobs for foreign governments. Like the Libyans. They want 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 Bobby 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 or the Mafia? The Destroyer?

Dangerous Games (With: Robert J. Randisi)

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.

Firing Line (With: Richard Sapir)

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.

Timber Line (With: Richard Sapir)

Tulsa Torrent, America’s biggest lumber company, is stumped when a couple of its key scientists are axed. Seems the deceased were part of a team developing an oil producing tree, and a lot of interested parties have been looking to grease their palms. Before anyone else is pulped, Remo and Chiun are planted to see the project out of the woods. But danger sprouts at every turn, and when the environmentalist High Sierra Society enters the picture, determined to make Tulsa Torrent take a hike, the project rests on pines and needles. Somebody’s barking up the wrong tree, and Remo and Chiun must get to the root of the matter before the unknown hatchet man mulches America’s energy future into one big compost heap…

Midnight Man (With: Robert J. Randisi)

Now you see him, now you don’t! Law-enforcement officials think they’ve see 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 buff 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 operation before he sends the monarch to Kingdom Come…

Balance of Power (With: Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

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.

Spoils of War (With: Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

The entire U.S. army is being forced to wage war on its own people by a pontificating ten preacher and the blonde Venus traveling as his wife. But, saints be praised, Remo and Chiun are of a different persuasion, and their unorthodox tactics leave many a zombie eyed Christian soldier prostrate on the ground. Chaplains are dying left and right…
an army base appears out of nowhere those answers to a higher authority than even the Pentagon. Agents of CURE postulate that a Mideast power may have created these apocalyptic events, but the facts are cloistered in secrecy. When Remo and Chiun look for answers, there’s no room for sacred cows and that’s the gospel truth!

Next of Kin (With: Molly Cochran)

Remo and Chiun arrive at the vacation paradise of St. Maarten, only to find they’re deep in Dutch. The beautiful island is a very ugly scene. A lot of corpses have been showing up, each one bearing the unmistakable stamp of Sinanju, the ancient Korean martial art known only to the two men. The trail of bodies leads to a strange castle…
and a young Dutchman a man, it turns out, who’s taken a blood vow to send both disciple and mentor to their deaths. A man who knows all their secrets…
and has a few of his own. It’s up to Remo and Chiun to stop him, but this time they’re skating on thin ice. And if they slip, the whole world may go under.

Profit Motive (With: Richard Sapir)

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…

Skin Deep (With: Molly Cochran)

Just as world leaders are flocking to New York to discuss world peace, someone takes off with the U.S. Navy’s latest super weapon a top secret, atom armed jet bomber that can escape radar detection. Remo and Chiun launch an investigation, but they’re just winging it…
until unexpected turbulence forces them to an uncharted island off the Florida Keys. Then all at once peril is hovering over their heads, in the form of an ex Na*zi with BLITZKRIEG on his mind. His flights of fancy have the free world taxing toward disaster, with Remo and Chiun going along for the ride. Under constant attack, our heroes are flying by the seat of their pants. And this time it looks as if even the secrets of Sinanju won’t help them land on their feet!

Killing Time (With: Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

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 causalities, and Remo and Chiun are being 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 are losing a lot more than cellulite…
Our heroes stumble 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…

Dying Space (With: Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

When a garbageman in California is found skinned alive, Remo and Chiun figure it’s a dirty business. When the same man starts showing up in the company of a tipsy lady scientist, they know something’s really rotten. But finding out the new face belongs to an old foe a deadly enemy they killed themselves they know trouble’s heading right for their laps, and they’ve got to move fast to keep from landing down in the dumps…
for good. Hot on a trail littered with peril, Remo and Chiun head for Moscow where the KGB, the scientist, and the once dead enemy of Sinanju teach them just who’s going to bury whom? As they waste away in a Soviet prison, America’s future is coming to a head a warhead. And with Remo and Chiun incarcerated, the U.S. is going to be incinerated…
unless, somehow, the odds shift to give the good guys a fighting chance…

Fool’s Gold (With: Richard Sapir)

It’s a routine archaeological find, on a routine archaeological dig until the strange inscription on a buried plaque is translated. Then all at once the entire world is prospecting for gold a whole mountain of it hidden centuries before by an ancient Latin American people. The U.S. is determined to stake a claim because that much gold, in the wrong hands, could destroy the free world’s economy. But nothing’s panning out, and the only person who can decipher the clues to the gold’s location might not live long enough to complete the task. It seems everyone’s trying to kill her…
There’s only one CURE for gold fever Remo and Chiun. But unless they strike it rich, this gold rush is bound to be a bust, and the free market along with it. Unfortunately, our heroes’ luck is about played out…

Last Drop (With: Richard Sapir,Molly Cochran)

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…
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Dark Horse (With: Will Murray,Richard Sapir)

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.

Feeding Frenzy (With: Will Murray)

While searching for the lethal ingredient in a popular snack food, Remo and Chiun encounter an exotic beauty determined to make Chiun her instant enemy and Remo her love slave.

High Priestess (With: Will Murray,Richard Sapir)

New Age diva Squirrelly Chicane the hottest channeler the side of Atlantis has made millions getting high on the afterlife. So when a delegation of Himalayan holy men convince a very stoned Squirrelly that she’s an incarnation of the Bunji Lama, she figures ruling their little country would be a kick. But big bad China is playing a game of turf war and Tibet is the unlucky first contestant. The holy underdogs hoped that an American national on the throne even one as nuts as Squirrelly would keep the bullies away. Not! Now, the U.S. is sitting on a powder keg. Solution: send in Remo and Chiun with some free tickets to paradise.

Infernal Revenue (With: Will Murray)

When a smooth talking artificial intelligence computer chip known as Friend covertly hijacks the new computer system at CURE, Harold Smith and his supersecret crime fighting organization log on to turbo trouble. Friend’s fiendish strategy screws up the data base so efficiently that both Remo and Chiun quit bad timing now that Friend has released a stealth virus that will attack systems everywhere, holding the world hostage to techno terrorism. With CURE’s intelligence network rendered useless and the IRS at his door, Smith’s only option looks like a suicide pill. But Friend overplays his hand, and now a reluctant Remo and determined Chiun are back on the payroll powered up to foil the greatest threat CURE has ever faced

Identity Crisis (With: Will Murray,Richard Sapir)

Could Dr. Harold Smith be Remo Williams’s biological father? Not only is Remo a few decades behind in Father’s Day cards, but the discovery has sparked the volatile relationship between Remo, and a very jealous Chiun, and Smith who can’t let his own son remain CURE’s expendable enforcement arm. But in his padded cell, one of CURE’s archenemies has been quietly regaining his extraordinary mental powers. His evil mind is culling gray matter and projecting diabolical illusions, putting a dizzying spin on real world events. The whole family ties freak out at CURE is his brainstorm…
and it may be enough to destroy the secret crime fighting organization forever.

Target of Opportunity (With: Richard Sapir)

Remo is set to teach a few lessons in hospitality at Florida’s top tourist attraction, but his mind is made up. He is a free agent. No more CURE, no more trying to solve America’s problems. But the nation goes into a state of shock when a Lee Harvey Oswald look alike is nailed trying to shoot the President, and Remo can’t ignore the call of duty and a sense of d j vu. Soon, a meddling television anchorwoman and strange transformations at the White House leave him feeling that he has landed a role in a bizarre Hollywood thriller. With the direct line to the President still dead, and Chiun trying to give away the secret of CURE, Remo and Smith are hard pressed to protect the Man who threatened to shut down CURE for good…

The Color Of Fear (With: Richard Sapir)

When a diabolical superfoe acquires a superlaser that uses hypercolor to control emotion, he throws the world into a kaleidoscope of deadly mood swings. CURE goes on red alert. And if things aren’t black enough, a rival nation has seen the mind blowing potential of beaming mood altering color form satellites…
and rendering entire nations defenseless. Color them crazy, but Remo and Chiun know they’ve got to thwart this bizarre color scheme. More than ever before they must rely on their sensory skills honed to a razor sharpness because the Destroyer is going to catch the enemy blindfolded.

Last Rites (With: Richard Sapir)

The Sinanju Rite of Attainment sounds like a nightmare for Remo Williams. But as the disciple of the last Korean Master, he can’t play hooky. Bounced around the world to perform the Labors of Hercules, Remo finds the days no joy and the nights sheer hell that stretch his warrior skills to the limit. And when the final challenge comes, Remo relizes that somebody’s dying is the only prize to be won..

Trace

Trace Series Book 1 Trace aka Devlin Tracy. He operates out of Las Vegas as a very private investigator. The giant insurance company that employs him is willing to overlook his drinking, his gambling and his womanizing for one reason: No matter how dirty and dangerous the job, he gets it done. Now his part time hooker girlfriend is off on an out of town trick, his alimony bills are piling up, and his assignment is to find out if an idealistic doctor is dedicated to killing his patients rather than curing them. What he is about to discover is that ordinary people often have the most perverse secrets, that one unsolved death can mean open season for someone aspiring to become a career beneficiary, and that unless he comes up with some answers fast someone might put a permanent end to him and his investigation in this dirty game of dollars and death…

And 47 Miles of Rope

Trace Series Book 2 The giant insurance company that hired Trace didn’t do it because of his sobriety, loyalty or high moral principles. They paid him for cases that no other investigator could come close to cracking and this one, here in sin city, Las Vegas, was right up Trace’s shadowy alley. It involved a collection of Beautiful People with ugly secrets that included the Countess Felicia Fallaci who couldn’t count her own lovers, a blond po*rn bombshell over endowed with everything but brains, an Italian pretty boy who dedicated his idle life to drugs, a German baron with bizarre appetites, and a private eye pimp with a string of Vegas sex machines. And right in the center of that circle of sophisticated sickies was a murdered man of mystery, a missing million in jewels, and a killer bent on teasing Trace to death…

Grandmaster (With: Molly Cochran)

Otto Penzler and the Mystery Writers of America present Grandmaster by Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original in 1985. Two men, born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, driven to oppose each other for only one man may be the Grandmaster. Justin Gilead and Alexander Zharkov, two men driven by powerful forces they can neither understand nor deny driven to fight each other in a battle for power that only one of them may win. Gilead, a magnificent athlete, an American, a genius, and a spy. Zharkov, a master strategist, head of the feared secret service agency, Nichevo, a determined, ambitious man. They first meet as ten year old chess prodigies both lonely, both meaning to win, both born under the magical sign of the gold coiled serpent. They will come to know the uses of pleasure, the secrets of pain, the impact of evil turned upon itself. They will understand the deadly forces that grip the world in swift violence, sudden death. And they will finally know that only one man may be the Grandmaster. Grandmaster is an extraordinary tale of spymasters and assassins, murder and intrigue played against a background of Far Eastern mysticism from Moscow to Washington, from Havana to Tibet.

The Forever King (With: Molly Cochran)

In a darkened house not far from the place where Camelot may once have stood, a madman schemes, plotting toward the day when he will wrest the cup that men call the Holy Grail from the boy who is its guardian. Arthur Blessing is no ordinary ten year old. The Grail is his by chance, this time, but the power to keep it a power as ancient as time itself is his by right. Now he must stay alive battling foul sorcery and indefatigable assassins long enough to use that power.

The Broken Sword (With: Molly Cochran)

Camelot in New York?Not long ago, Arthur was an ordinary boy. Now he knows that he is the legendary King Arthur, returned to lead not just Britain but all mankind into a new era of justice, peace, and freedom. Accompanied by the wizard Merlin; Hal, an ex FBI agent who is now Arthur’s bodyguard; and a young girl who holds the powers of the ancient Druids, Arthur seeks the tools of his great work the Holy Grail and the sword Excalibur. The Grail’s magic has attracted the attention of a powerful sorcerer who will do anything and kill anyone to claim its power. To protect Arthur, Hal summons the Knights of the Round Table from their enchanted slumber in the mists of Camelot. The Knights now New York City’s newest motorcycle club find the 20th century a confusing time, but they know their mission fight evil and save the King. In the final battle, Arthur learns that having right on your side is not always enough. Sometimes there are sacrifices to be made. Will the Round Table never rise again? Will this Camelot, like the last, fade too soon into memory?

The Third Magic (By:Molly Cochran)

Eight years ago, a young red haired boy discovered that he was the reincarnation of Arthur, once High King of Britain, master of the Round Table, wielder of Excalibur and the Holy Grail, fated to one day reclaim his throne and lead the world into a new golden age.

Almost immediately, people started trying to kill him. Arthur has been on the run or in hiding since he was ten years old.

Four years ago, after a climactic battle between the resurrected Knights of the Round Table and a dark magician determined to warp the powers of the Grail to his own evil purpose, Arthur Blessing spoke to television cameras, and therefore the world. He told them the time for hatred and fear was over and that a new time of peace was at hand.

Pursued as a new messiah, Arthur disappeared to a small farm in the American Midwest, surrounded by his Knights, protected most of all by Hal, most recently an FBI agent, but, long ago, Sir Galahad.

Now Arthur is eighteen, and Merlin has come to bring him to his destiny. There’s just one small problem.

Arthur. What is he going to do as High King? How can he unite and heal such a deeply wounded world? No one believes in all that chivalry stuff anymore, and besides, he’s not sure mankind is worthy of the powers of the Sword and the Grail.

Yet those powers are needed, now most of all. Now, with a master terrorist preparing to strike Cheyenne Mountain, to blow up the heart of America’s nuclear arsenal and spread radioactive death across the planet. Now, with a psychopathic killer on the loose, a man determined to personally slaughter the Knights and Arthur himself. Now, with a chance to find Guinevere again, to put right their love that was spoiled and betrayed centuries ago.

Arthur Blessing. The Once and Future King. Now he must choose his fate.

Choke Hold

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.

Guardian Angel

THE DESTROYER NEVER DIES…
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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 ma ana. 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…

Dead Reckoning

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.

Killer Ratings

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.

Honor Among Thieves

The FBI sends a New York mobster turned informant to Russia, where the Moscow police use him to penetrate the Russian mob, setting off a chain of murders and leading to a threat against the entire free world.

World Without End (With: Molly Cochran)

Sam Smith is targeted by an international network of conspirators because of his discovery of clues to the lost continent of Atlantis, and when he is mysteriously transported to the past, Sam becomes the key to the island’s survival. PW.

Murder in Manhattan

This suspense filled collection includes Mary Higgins Clark’s ‘Lucky Day,’ Whitley Strieber’s ‘Vaudeville,’ Dorothy Salisbury Davis’ ‘Till Death Do Us Part,’ and Thomas Chastain’s ‘Directed Verdict.’ 4 cassettes.