Not worth the hefty price

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	• Created, the Destroyer (Destroyer, 1) Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir e-reads.com, 2002 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not worth the hefty price

It was a good read but the price vs the meat didn't seem worth it. I read Asimovs Foundation series for less and enjoyed it just as much. You can finish this book in less than a few hours and for $15 it didn't seem worth the investment.

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A cop that has gone a little off the rails ends up killing a perp. He gets severely shafted and executed for it. Only not quite, this is used as a cover to train a secret agent, basically, in all sorts of things, including superhuman karate, and point him at the 'bad guys'.

The first of whom are a well established bunch of mafioso.

Hero as vigilante who kills with his bare hands, in other words.

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Its a beginning

Created the Destroyer is a good read. It lacks the charactor that the later books bring, but it still has all the elements. I think you'd have to read the Destroyer 1 just to see the roots.

Satire, Humor & Action

I purchased this book in the early 70's and have been hooked ever since. There is much satire in the series along with much humor. However, the main focus is Remo learning from Chium to become the next Master of Sinanju as well as saving the US and other countries as well. The series is - overall - very well written. The relationship between Remo and Chiun is fascinating. This series, which has about 150 stories now, is perhaps my favorite along with the Perry Rhodan series.

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THE BEGINNING OF A LEGEND

I will agree with the other reviewers that the first two books in the DEstroyer series almost do not even count and the series would really not find its way and unique style until the third book in the series. Still...this is the beginning as we learn how the NJ cop Remo Williams gets the chair for murder and is then resuscitated and recruited by a super secret agency Known as CURE. Remo is trained in the deadly Korean martial art known as Sinanju by Chiun, master assasin, and uses his new skills to battle evil under the guidance of CURE's director, Smith.

The first book really doesn't develop any of the characters with the personalities that they would come to have once the series took off but it is still notable as THE first and as such deserves a place of honor. It's rather slow moving but historical still.

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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.

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