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  • Bibliography:
    157 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Full Series List in Order

The Destroyer

1 - Created, the Destroyer (1973)
2 - Death Check (Jan-1972)
3 - Chinese Puzzle (Mar-1972)
4 - Mafia Fix (1978)
5 - Dr. Quake (Sep-1972)
6 - Death Therapy (Dec-1983)
7 - Union Bust (1973)
8 - Summit Chase (1974)
9 - Murder's Shield (Apr-1973)
10 - Terror Squad (1973)
11 - Kill or Cure (Nov-1988)
12 - Slave Safari (1973)
13 - Acid Rock (1973)
14 - Judgment Day (1974)
15 - Murder Ward (1974)
16 - Oil Slick (Aug-1974)
17 - Last War Dance (1974)
18 - Funny Money (Feb-1975)
19 - Holy Terror (1975)
20 - Assassins Play-Off (May-1989)
21 - Deadly Seeds (Nov-1975)
22 - Brain Drain (Jan-1976)
23 - Child's Play (Apr-1976)
24 - King's Curse (Jul-1976)
25 - Sweet Dreams (Oct-1976)
26 - In Enemy Hands (Jan-1977)
27 - The Last Temple (1977)
28 - Ship of Death (May-1977)
29 - The Final Death (Jul-1977)
30 - Mugger Blood (1977)
31 - Head Men (Nov-1977)
32 - Killer Chromosomes (Mar-1978)
33 - Voodoo Die (Jun-1978)
34 - Chained Reaction (Jul-1990)
35 - Last Call (Dec-1978)
36 - Power Play (Mar-1979)
37 - Bottom Line (Jul-1979)
38 - Bay City Blast (1979)
39 - Missing Link (1980)
40 - Dangerous Games (1980)
41 - Firing Line (1980)
42 - Timber Line (1980)
43 - Midnight Man (Feb-1981)
44 - Balance of Power (Jun-1981)
45 - Spoils of War (Aug-1981)
46 - Next of Kin (Nov-1981)
47 - Dying Space (Jan-1982)
48 - Profit Motive (May-1982)
49 - Skin Deep (Jul-1982)
50 - Killing Time (Oct-1982)
51 - Shock Value (Jan-1983)
52 - Fool's Gold (May-1983)
53 - Time Trial (Aug-1983)
54 - Last Drop (Nov-1983)
55 - Master's Challenge (Feb-1984)
56 - Encounter Group (Jun-1984)
57 - Date With Death (Oct-1984)
58 - Total Recall (Dec-1984)
59 - Arms of Kali (Nov-1984)
60 - End of the Game (Feb-1985)
61 - Lords of the Earth (May-1985)
62 - The Seventh Stone (Aug-1985)
63 - The Sky Is Falling (Jan-1986)
64 - The Last Alchemist (Apr-1986)
65 - Lost Yesterday (Jul-1986)
66 - Sue Me (Oct-1986)
67 - Look into My Eyes (Jan-1987)
68 - An Old-Fashioned War (Apr-1987)
69 - Blood Ties (Jul-1987)
70 - The Eleventh Hour (Sep-1987)
71 - Return Engagement (Jan-1988)
72 - Sole Survivor (Apr-1988)
73 - Line of Succession (Jul-1988)
74 - Walking Wounded (Oct-1988)
75 - Rain of Terror (Jan-1989)
76 - The Final Crusade (Apr-1989)
77 - Coin of the Realm (Jul-1989)
78 - Blue Smoke and Mirrors (Oct-1989)
79 - Shooting Schedule (Jan-1990)
80 - Death Sentence (Apr-1990)
81 - Hostile Takeover (Jul-1990)
82 - Survival Course (Oct-1990)
83 - Skull Duggery (Jan-1991)
84 - Ground Zero (Apr-1991)
85 - Blood Lust (Jul-1991)
86 - Arabian Nightmare (Oct-1991)
87 - Mob Psychology (Jan-1992)
88 - The Ultimate Death (Apr-1992)
89 - Dark Horse (Jul-1992)
90 - Ghost in the Machine (Oct-1992)
91 - Cold Warrior (Jan-1993)
92 - The Last Dragon (Apr-1993)
93 - Terminal Transmission (Jul-1993)
94 - Feeding Frenzy (Oct-1993)
95 - High Priestess (Apr-1994)
96 - Infernal Revenue (Sep-1994)
97 - Identity Crisis (Nov-1994)
98 - Target of Opportunity (Jan-1995)
99 - The Color of Fear (Mar-1995)
100 - Last Rites (Jul-1995)
101 - Bidding War (Oct-1995)
102 - Unite and Conquer (Feb-1996)
103 - Engines of Destruction (Jun-1996)
104 - Angry White Mailman (Sep-1996)
105 - Scorched Earth (Nov-1996)
106 - White Water (Feb-1997)
107 - Feast or Famine (Mar-1997)
108 - Bamboo Dragon (Jun-1997)
109 - American Obsession (Sep-1997)
110 - Never Say Die (Jan-1998)
111 - Prophet of Doom (Apr-1998)
112 - Brain Storm (Jul-1998)
113 - The Empire Dreams (Nov-1998)
114 - Failing Marks (Feb-1999)
115 - Misfortune Teller (May-1999)
116 - The Final Reel (Jul-1999)
117 - Deadly Genes (Nov-1999)
118 - Killer Watts (Jan-2000)
119 - Fade to Black (May-2000)
120 - The Last Monarch (Jul-2000)
121 - A Pound of Prevention (Oct-2000)
122 - Syndication Rites (Jan-2001)
123 - Disloyal Opposition (Apr-2001)
124 - By Eminent Domain (Jul-2001)
125 - The Wrong Stuff (Oct-2001)
126 - Air Raid (Jan-2002)
127 - Market Force (Apr-2002)
128 - The End of the Beginning (Jul-2002)
129 - Father to Son (Oct-2002)
130 - Waste Not, Want Not (Jan-2003)
131 - Unnatural Selection (Apr-2003)
132 - Wolf's Bane (Jul-2003)
133 - Troubled Waters (Oct-2003)
134 - Bloody Tourists (Jan-2004)
135 - Political Pressure (Apr-2004)
136 - Unpopular Science (Jul-2004)
137 - Industrial Evolution (Oct-2004)
138 - No Contest (Jan-2005)
139 - Dream Thing (Apr-2005)
140 - Dark Ages (Jul-2005)
141 - Frightening Strikes (Oct-2005)
142 - Mindblower (Jan-2006)
143 - Bad Dog (Apr-2006)
144 - Holy Mother (Jul-2006)
145 - Dragon Bones (Oct-2006)
146 - Choke Hold (Oct-2007)
147 - Guardian Angel (May-2007)
148 - Dead Reckoning (Apr-2008)
149 - Killer Ratings (Jul-2008)
150 - The End of the World (Aug-2019)
151 - Bully Pulpit (Feb-2016)
152 - Continental Divide (Jan-2018)
153 - Monumental Terror (Sep-2019)

The Fatherland Trilogy

1 - Brain Storm (Jul-1998)

Book List in Order: 157 titles



  • TO KNOW IS TO DIE! THE BREWSTER FORUM ... one of America's think-tanks, an innocent-appearing collection of intellectuals and scientists involved in super-cerebral research projects. One of their more interesting secret studies is the drafting of...



  • YES, MR. PRESIDENT The President of the United States sat in the large soft chair, his shoeless feet resting on a green hassock before him, his eyes riveted on predawn Washington. His closest advisor was summing up in his professional manner: "...



  • WHO’S FAULT? It isn't going to be Remo Williams' -- no matter what Dr. Quake or Mother Nature have in store! Out in California there's a crack in the crust of the earth's skin known as the San Andreas Fault. Every once in a while this crack l...



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    ROCK TILL YOU DROP! She was just a gorgeous red headed groupie, shaking her booty backstage at the world's largest rock festival. So what in the name of Elvis was she doing with a one million dollar contract on her pretty head? And now CURE, the "...



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    When you're on death row, minutes from the electric chair, and a hook-handed monk offers to save your life if you'll just swallow a simple little pill... what've you got to lose? You take the pill. Then you wake up, officially dead, in th...



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    SLAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME A bevy of Baltimore society debs have been kidnapped, only to mysteriously reappear in the African nation of Busati doing hard labor in an exclusive, government-supported cathouse. It looks as if Busati's top banana, Pr...



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    RADICAL SHRIEK Bloody bombings in Britain! Vicious violence in Venezuela! One single maniacal madman is behind the ever-spreading rash of global terrorism -- and the governments of the three major world powers are just itching to get their hands o...



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    UNITED WE FALL The secret birth of a giant transportation super-union controlling all air, train and truck traffic is about to give the U.S. serious labor pains. A megalomaniacal Local leader plans to take charge and use his awesome new-found migh...



  • ANOTHER CURE? Because of bureaucratic red tape, political pressure and legalistic loopholes, there are many criminals the police are unable to arrest. Out of frustration, they have formed a small, secret army. This clandestine police force, with the...






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    KILLING CURE Remo Williams has just received his first assignment from the new director of CURE: to permanently dispose of the old director of CURE! This particularly sticky setup has death-master Chiun and his prized pupil at odds with each other...



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    ATOMIC POWWOW Radical members of the Apowa Indian tribe have taken over the small western community of Wounded Elk. It seems the captured cowtown borders the nation's largest top-secret nuclear installation. And if their demands aren't met -- and ...



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    "TAKE TWO BULLETS AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING!" The doctors and nurses at the Robler Clinic have a sweet deal going: "losing" important patients for cold hard cash! But too many bigwigs lately have been checking in for a checkup, then checking out....



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    ENGINEER OF EVIL Why were airliners blowing up all over the skies? Why were buildings collapsing and motorcycles going out of control? Why was an entire city in India covered with poisonous gas -- and America's greatest dam about to burst? Beca...



  • IT’S A GAS! For years America has been supplied with oil from the Middle Eastern state of Lobynia. But there's a policy change when Lobynia's king is deposed by army Colonel Baraka in a bloodless coup. Baraka decides that American oil refineries a...



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    HINDU UNTO OTHERS Maharaji Gupta Mahesh Dor -- chubby teenaged guru and video game whiz -- has been collecting an odd assortment of nubile western nymphets and brainwashed Baptist ministers to help bring his divine message of love to the world. Bu...



  • BLACKMAIL The ransom is a computer program developed by NASA for use in unmanned space flights. So complex that it approaches human creativity, the program is virtually useless within a million miles of earth. Who wants it? Why? A mysterious Mr. Go...



  • HUNGER POWER 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....



  • A CREATIVITY GAP? Someone or something is killing artists, poets, composers, and authors. They are being horribly murdered and mutilated. The police are totally baffled. A maniac is on the loose, and has some warped reason for preying on these un...



  • KID STUFF When people associated with the mob decide to testify against their former bosses the government has a policy of providing them with new identities and a new home, safe from discovery by vengeful thugs. But somebody has been systemati...






  • YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART! Civilizations fell when Cortez and his conquistadors landed in the New World. The Mayans, Aztecs, and the Toltec all vanished into the mists of history. But one tribe survived: the Actatl, and what survived with them was their ...



  • FADE IN/FADE OUT An eccentric professor invents the world's greatest entertainment device -- a gadget that will let you watch your own most secret fantasies on your television set, in glorious full color, with stereophonic sound an optional extra. ...



  • AMERICA DEFENSELESS? 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...



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    COUNTDOWN Just when you thought it was safe to visit Israel, the police find a body in the desert outside Tel Aviv, hacked up into a bloody human swastika. It's just another routine violent crime in a land at war, until they discover the victim's...



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    PAY BACK Word on the streets was don't mess with the Lords. The Sdxon Lords killed for cigarette money and ruled the New York ghettos with fear. Even the cops stayed off their turf. But one man couldn't stay away when he read about the brutal beat...



  • FLOATING COFFIN? When the United Nations finally decides to leave New York, a Greek shipping magnate, one of the world's wealthiest men, makes them an offer they can't refuse: their new headquarters will be the biggest ship in the world, a floating ...



  • 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 legionnaires keel over from the effects...



  • 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 detection dev...



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    The Mafia is making a power play on US soil, smuggling in four shipping containers full of the finest Turkish heroin right under the Feds' noses. It's a shipment large enough to turn a generation into addicts and elevate the Cosa Nostra to ne...



  • THE LADY OR THE TIGER? What happens when a lady scientist discovers a "key" to the manipulation of genetic patterns that keep different species from intermingling? The lady becomes a tiger -- of the man-eating variety. She is wild, beautiful, and...






  • BLACK MAGIC When Reverend Prescott Plumber goes to the island of Baqia in the Caribbean to save souls and bodies, he discovers a fantastic happy drug the natives call "mung." However, when it's shot with radiation, it turns people into puddles. It's...



  • RED RIOT 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 ...



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    THE MAYOR; "Yes," Smith said, "he's taken over the city. He has given 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 i...



  • A GROSS BUSINESS Wesley Pruiss was just a misunderstood and misled publishing entrepreneur. The dirtier his little magazine got,the more money he made. There seemed to be no limit to the dirt or the money. His full-color monthly, called Gross. soo...



  • RATS! The President was 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 assi...



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    NO SWEAT ... Once again it is the White House calling. Some racist idiot is upset about America's athletes mixing together in sports. The threat to kill our track-and-field champions seems real. The Russians are scared. The Americans are scared, and...



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    THE FIRE NEXT TIME Ruby is too hot to handle, and Remo is 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...



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    Bobby-Jack Billings is a beer-guzzling, gut-bulging slipshod. He's a drunk, a racist and a buffoon. He's also the President's brother-in-law. And he's missing.

    The list of suspects seems endless. America's number-one be...



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    Tulsa Torrent, America's biggest lumber company, is stunned and horrified when two of its key scientists are brutally murdered. It seems the deceased were part of a team developing an oil-producing tree, and a lot of interested parties were looki...



  • 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 -- ...






  • THROWN FOR A LOOP 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 ...



  • HOLY MOSES! 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 tac...



  • DUTCH TREAT 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, th...



  • When a garbage man in California is found skinned alive, secret agents Remo and Chiun figure it's dirty business. When the same man starts showing up in the company of a prominent female scientist, they know something's really rotten.



  • OIL GLUT OR OIL GLUTTONS? 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...



  • AIR RAID 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...



  • REDUCED TO STATISTICS 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 C...



  • TAILOR-MADE FOR TERROR! It's a new wrinkle in murder: 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....



  • ALL THAT GLITTERS... 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...



  • JUNGLE ROT Strange goings-on in the Guatemalan jungles threaten to explode into an international incident when a team of American archaeologists disappears--after spotting secret weapons in the hands of barefoot natives. Remo and Chiun are sent i...






  • THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY It'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 circumstance...



  • FOR SALE: THE U.S.A.! Brain-dead mind-slaves in the U.S government have been stealing America's top secrets to sell to the top bidder. It's all the work of the sexy and sinister Dr. Lithia Forrester, whose brilliant mind control experiments have c...



  • Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time....



  • Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time....



  • Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time....



  • DEATH WAS IN THE AIR All over America the airline travelers were dying, ' seduced by lovely young women and strangled by silken scarves in savage hands. The security of the nation hung over an open grave -- and Remo Williams, the Destroyer, and hi...



  • Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time....



  • PERIL POINTS With voluptuous Pamela Thrushwell at his side, Remo punched out 242 on the machine, and saw the numbers replaced by letters: "PLEASE TELL ME HOW WELL YOU DID." "We killed the man and the woman," said Remo. "YOU LIE. I CAN SEE YO...



  • SUPERFLY He's big. He's black. He's bad. And he ain't afraid of no DDT. The Lord of the Killer Flies was a buggy billionaire, out to liberate oppressed vermin everywhere. He didn't include people in that category. The Destroyer did. Still, he t...



  • THE DEADLIEST STONE OF ALL A bigger chill than snow. Harder to kick than heroin. The Destroyer was stoned on star lust. Remo was losing it...and loving it...in the highly-trained arms of Kim Kiley, Hollywood sex specialist...and the hottest wea...





  • When a street-smart NYPD cop regains consciousness after a bizarre mugging, he has a new face and a new identity! Now he's Remo Williams, the #1 recruit of a top-secret organization, and he's toppling evil at every turn - even atop the Statue of Libe...



  • THE MURDEROUS MONEY MACHINE It was honer than sex. It packed a bigger punch than the H-bomb. And best of all, it was worth a sky-high pile of blue chips for the company that could make and market the machine that could tap the full energy of the ...



  • THE STONED GOLD BOG The Philosophers Stone. The key to turning base metals into gold. Everyone knew it didn't exist. Except it did. And now the last of the alchemists, Harrison Caldwell, had his hands on it and was reaching out to grab the nuclear...



  • COUNTDOWN TO ZERO POWERESSENCE -- the answer to all of humanity's questions. POWERESSENCE -- the cult that was sweeping the nation under the direction of filthy rich ex-science-fiction writer Rubin Dolomo and his sex-tiger wife. POWERESSENCE -- wh...



  • Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time....



  • 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 ...



  • SOMETHING STRANGE WAS HAPPENING -- AND ONLY CHIUN KNEW WHAT IT WAS In America, the Indian tribes had united and were delivering crushing blows to the U.S. Army. In the Middle East, the Arabs had regained their martial mastery and were demolishing ...



  • THE GURU OF GARBAGE Lyle Lavellette was known to some as Detroit's maverick genius, and to others as the biggest gasbag the auto city had ever seen. But now this golden-tongued tycoon had proved his critics wrong by producing a car that could.free...



  • IT'S ALWAYS DARKEST BEFORE THE END Things weren't exactly looking bright for Remo and Chiun. Not to mention for the entire world. From an evil inferno the ancient almighty god of destruction had risen to possess the Destroyer body and soul. Meanwh...



  • WHAT WAS NAZISM DOING IN AMERICA IN THE 1980s? A LOT. 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 he...



  • WAS THIS THE WAY AMERICA ENDED -- NOT WITH A BANG BUT A FIZZLE? 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 ...



  • ANYTHING REMO COULD DO, EVIL COULD DO BETTER Remo and Chiun were in shock, and their jobs with CURE in jeopardy, as a mysterious rival beat them to the punch again and again by saving the two Presidential candidates from assassination. Even worse,...



  • 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 aba...



  • REMOGATE When a blabber-mouth bureaucrat reveals CURE's plot to covertly dispose of Florida's corrupt political dead wood. the free press has a field day. The biggest national scandal since the Nixon nastiness is about to necessitate the dismantli...



  • CHICKEN LITTLE WAS RIGHT! Well, maybe the sky wasn't falling -- but something was falling from the sky. Something that stunned America's scientists, stupefied America's security forces, and sent the new U.S. President miles underground to dodge th...



  • THE DESTROYER WAS BORN AGAIN -- AND WAS AS HELPLESS AS A BABY Eldon Sluggard, the TV evangelist whose god was greed, had converted Remo to his renegade religion and enlisted him in his unholy war of conquest. Victoria Hoar, the curvacious creat...



  • 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 ...



  • MOO WASN'T EXACTLY YOUR TYPICAL ISLAND PARADISE Its fat-cat master made his subjects slaves to his greed. Its beautiful princess was motivated by lust -- for money or whatever. Its people were far deeper into digging their ruler's grave than his m...



  • NOW YOU SEE IT... Someone-or something-is walking right through the walls of America's top nuclear missile facility, and walking off with some of the world's deadliest secrets. Someone has mastered an unholy power that makes Chiun believe in gh...



  • AND NOW, FROM THE GREAT FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU PEARL HARBOR... Nemuro Nishitsu remembered Pearl Harbor. He also remembered the rest of World War II and Japan's humiliating defeat. Nishitsu had been a humble soldier then. He was Japan's number one i...



  • A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE Remo still had a mind -- but it was totally wasted. Someone had ripped his memory out by the roots, and had him by the short hairs. As far as Remo and everyone else was concerned, he was a cop killer locked in a...



  • BATMAN, MOVE OVER! Who was the weird creature wreaking havoc in the closed ranks and secret banks of Wall Street insiders? Why did the money masters who were playing the market like a yo-yo suddenly fear they had more to fear than fear itself? And...



  • BLACK Black is not only beautiful, it's Ruby Gonzalez...the wild CIA lady with a sure cure for what ails Remo and Chinn. 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 litt...



  • MEXICAN SLAYRIDE The bad news was that the U.S. President was shot down over Mexico. The good news was that he survived. The bad news was he was captured by drug thugs. The good news was he was rescued by his courageous Vice-President. But the wor...



  • CHINESE RIDDLE What was in the Chinese box that a student survivor of Tiananmen Square smuggled into the States? What fiend in human form left footprints pointed backward in the snow? Remo and Chiun found every answer led to a bizarre new riddle. ...



  • WHERE HAD ALL THE FLOWER CHILDREN GONE? What was nifty in the '60s was nasty in the '90s. Hippies were crazed eco-freaks out to save the earth by destroying the square world. And the image of a Haight-Ashbury angel named Sky Bluel played with atom...



  • ARMS RACE TO THE FINISH LINE Normally Remo didn't care how his evil enemies were armed. The Destroyer could take on everything from brass knuckles to H-bombs. But now he faced a foe equipped with arms that even he couldn't overcome. For the man...



  • THE MADDAS TOUCH Everything that Maddas Hinsein touched turned to blood as the mad-dog dictator of outlaw Trait pursued his plans of conquest by taking over tiny oil-rich Kuran. Only Remo and Chiun could stop this man who was up to his mustache i...



  • ZAP! YOU'RE DEAD! The Mafia had entered the computer age with a vengeance. The game they were playing went way beyond Pac-Man. They didn't make images vanish from a screen -- they made human beings vanish from the earth. With the world's biggest c...



  • WARNING: DEATH IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH The great health-food movement in America was a victim of fowl play. Folks who had switched from prime beef to pure poultry were winding up dead meat. The country's Chicken King was squawking at the top of hi...



  • RUNNING AMOK It was your ordinary California campaign. Rona I Ripper promised to snuff out smokers. Barry Black, Jr., fresh from his latest mystical experience, had the flake vote cornered. And newcomer Enrique Esperanza offered hope to the hop...



  • THE ART OF THE STEAL Randal T. Rumpp was the most unbashful billionaire of the 1980s. But the greed decade was dead, and Rumpp was buried in debt. He would wheel-and-deal with the devil to get back on top -- but he had to go even lower than that. ...



  • REMO AND CHIUN HAD TO CRY "UNCLE" For twisted nostalgia buffs, it was a chance to revel again in the bad old days. A new Bay of Pigs invasion had ended in a fresh fiasco. Castro had turned from a bearded buffoon back into a maximum leader -- and h...



  • ENDANGERED SPECIES The good news was that a huge dinosaur was alive in darkest Africa, and a beautiful female cryptozoologist was looking after it. The bad news was that a fast-food king saw it as a mouthwatering chance to make quick cash -- and a...



  • TV OR NO TV? THAT WAS THE QUESTION America had been dealt a blow that made Pearl Harbor look like a love tap. Someone had jammed all TV transmission -- and unless the networks coughed up a mind-boggling fortune to the monstrously mysterious Capta...



  • 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 ...



  • 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....



  • WITH FRIENDS LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES? 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 trou...



  • BLOODLINES 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 parked the volatile relationship between Remo, a very jealous Chiun, and Smith -- who can't ...



  • FREE AGENT 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 w...



  • RED ALERT 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 see...



  • 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....



  • THE ART OF THE DEAL Budget cuts are every administrator's nightmare, but CURE's own Dr. Harold Smith has a real whopper. A battle over bullion prompts Chiun to seek better pastures, and he's dragging Remo along. Word spreads like wildfire: the ...



  • START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT THEM... Not that things were so hot before, but when a huge earthquake guts Mexico, nobody wants to hang around, especially with all sorts of demonic doings by the barbaric gods of old Mexico, released from hell when t...



  • RIDDLE OF THE PSYCHO SAMURAI It's become the fastest -- and surest -- way to get from here to eternity. Somebody is playing the railroads like a giant train set, causing high-speed derailments that strew the rails with headless victims from coast...



  • GOING POSTAL Hell is being hand-delivered in a rash of federal bombings and random massacres by postal employees across the nation. And CURE's Dr. Harold Smith sends Remo and Chiun to root out the cause. The mail carriers, who'd complained they...



  • FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE A single superheated zap from an invisible object in space literally vaporizes the Biobubble habitat scientists. More sizzling attacks are followed by eyewitness sightings of giant Cyrillic letters in the sky. As the White...



  • GONE FISHING... Fish are mysteriously disappearing from the coastal waters of the United States, and it's anybody's guess what the problem is. Red tide, pollution? But soon angry fingers point north, to Canada, and the two countries trade threats ...



  • THEY'RE TINY AND LETHAL -- AND THEY'RE BITING BACK Invisible swarms of insects are on the rampage, heading toward America's heartland. Immune to pesticides, the creatures are consuming farms, leveling wheat and cornfields. On the frontlines, Remo ...



  • 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. Harild Smith w...



  • FATTED CALVES The new body culture is finally bringing its rewards thanks to a hormone treatment that rapidly restructures body fat to muscle -- all overnight, during a true beauty snooze. But it's way-out expensive, and only the rich and f...



  • HOW TO RAISE PERFECT KILLERS Forensic evidence in a couple of assassinations reveals a curious link between the killers: identical fingerprints and genetic code. Could it be twins? But when the next killer's traces show the same result, law enforc...



  • WHERE THERE'S SMOKE... Everybody with a spare million is lining up at the gates of Ranch Ragnarok, home to Esther Clear Seer's Church of the Absolute and Incontrovertible Truth. Here an evil yellow smoke shrouds an ancient oracle that offers glimp...



  • NO ESCAPE KEY The computer world is always evolving, but now it logs on trouble for CURE. Dr. Harold Smith's own meticulously organized neural files are covertly copied, analyzed and downloaded by an amazing new interface system. Soon all of CU...



  • A THOUSAND-YEAR NIGHTMARE A vacationing Harold Smith finds himself in the middle of a war zone when World War II planes bomb London and Nazi-attired skinheads goose-step through the streets. To complete the weird déjà vu, the guy responsible ...



  • GOLDEN MIRAGE The losers of World War II and their descendants have carved out their own little slice of heaven in the mountains of Argentina. this staging area to the Fourth Reich, the promise of the dream reborn dawned is bright as a new German...



  • EASTERN PROPAGANDA When Chiun watches an infomercial produced by Man Hyung Sun and his cult of Loonies, he revels in the leader's sales pitch about the Sun Source and upcoming conversion of all humanity into Koreans. After all, what could be more...



  • LIGHTS! CAMERA! ARMAGEDDON! Sultan Omay of Ebla is dying -- and he plans to take the Great Satan with him by hitting America right in its nerve center: Hollywood. So he buys a failing movie studio and dispatches the Mideast's top lethal terro...



  • HOLD THE PICKLE Meet the Bos Camelus-Whitus, affectionately known as BBQ to the genetic engineers at BostonBio. Brainchild of the beautiful but sociopathic Dr. Judith White, this homely, sad-eyed creature is a biomasterpiece of gene splicing, and ...



  • KILLING MACHINE What do you get when you cross a maniac with a microwave? An army experiment gone wrong -- and a walking power plant with a compulsion to kill. Complete with optical targeting sensors, capacitors and rechargeable batteries, Eliz...



  • NOW PLAYING Something smells at Cabbagehead Productions. Ticket sales for the indie company's slasher movies are skyrocketing, thanks to the publicity of some real-life murders. Remo draws the short straw to dump whoever is behind these stunts on th...



  • CURED Thanks to Chiun's "emptying sin" technique, past U.S. presidents remember nothing about CURE, America's most secret defense organization. Now a former head of state believed to have lost his mind suddenly finds it -- and calls Dr. Harold Smi...



  • IT AIN'T CLUB MED... Something funny is going on in the East African nation of Luzuland...and it's more than just the usual civil unrest or military coup. Organized crime lords are converging for what looks Ilk:, an underworld summit -- and Dr. H...



  • When a DEA drug raid on a New Jersey warehouse goes fatally wrong it shouldn't be that big a deal. But who's pulling the strings behind the scenes and what is the connection to "Raffair," a mysterious company that's just gone public? As Raffair's sto...



  • PEACE, LOVE AND DESTRUCTION. JUST ANOTHER DAY IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA. Barkley, California, has always been a counterculture kind of a place, but now, its local historical society has decided they've had enough of Washington's politically incorrect...



  • THOSE CRAZY KREMLIN GUYS ARE AT IT AGAIN... Things are changing for the supersecret organization known as CURE. Dr. Harold Smith has a protege, Remo is thinking about apprentice shopping and Chiun is fantasizing about his retirement from the heada...



  • KILL, CRUSH, DESTROY... 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 h...



  • 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 Concerne...



  • STAY TUNED FOR MORE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. Somebody is using television as a mind control vehicle, sending subliminal messages to hollow-eyed viewers, and turning ordinary couch potatoes into raging mobs programmed to kill. A secret enemy dares to...



  • HOW DOES A BEAT COP BECOME AMERICA'S SECRET WEAPON AGAINST EVIL? It isn't easy. Especially after being nearly fried in the electric chair, plunged into a secret crime-fighting organization called CURE, then handed over to a Korean killing machine ...



  • 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 Ti...



  • Something's rotten in the garbage business -- and CURE is ready to take out the trash . . . IF IT LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE AND SMELLS LIKE TROUBLE . . . Mayana -- a South American country known only for a mass cult suicide -- is poised to become the ...



  • A hungry enemy comes back for seconds . . . Man Eater Sexy scientist Dr. Judith White, who first attempted to repopulate the earth with mutant, man-eating tiger people, has bounced back from extinction with a new and improved plan for world dom...



  • EAT THIS... 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. His unique abilities as a bona fide loup-garou have earned him gainful employment as a contract ki...



  • Not So Jolly Roger . . . Complete with skull and crossbones fluttering in the wind, "Captain" Thomas Kidd is the new scourge of the Caribbean, raiding unsuspecting pleasure craft and pursuing the great piratical tradition of looting, pillaging and...



  • A-KICKIN' AND A-GRINNIN' The tiny Caribbean tourist trap of Union Island wants to declare its independence from the U.S. And while baby-faced island leader Greg Grom's "Free Union Island" movement is taken about as seriously as a summer day, good ...



  • SMEAR CAMPAIGN One by one, America's most corrupt public servants are dying violent deaths. Call it coincidence, cal it a spontaneous clamor for a cleaner, brighter America, call it years of clever plotting by a brilliant mastermind, or simply cal...



  • Repulsive force A rash of perfectly executed thefts from military research facilities puts CURE in the hot seat. Bad enough someone is stealing top secret technology that can seriously disable the superiority of the U.S. military. Worse, whoever i...



  • With a couple of techno-geniuses and a corrupt politician wreaking havoc on the House of Sinanju, Remo, with the help of Chiun and CURE, must stop a maniacal father-son team of inventors who have created an undergound civilization filled with Mole Pe...



  • The thrill of victory and the humiliation of defeat The Extreme Sports Network is the cash cow feeding off America's lust for blood, guts and sex disguised as competitive athletics. From Extreme Nude Luge to the excruciatingly gory Extreme Outback...



  • As violence erupts due to a bizarre seismic disturbance, Chiun discovers that the cause is Sa Mangsang, the Dream Thing, that has awakened from his slumber and will destroy the Earth, unleashing volcanoes, typhoons, and heatwaves, unless Remo can sto...



  • When Sir James and his Knights Temporary unleash deadly nanobots to reclaim former British colonies throughout Africa, Jamaica, and now New Jersey, Remo, who is outraged that his home state is being invaded, joins in the fray to stop the madness and ...



  • A giant squid rescued in a bizarre oceanic maelstrom dies in a Chicago aquarium, but its eggs burst with megavolts of killer electricity that zap human flesh into bite-size pieces. When one of the squid’s unlucky entrees turns into an evil, see...



  • 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 ...



  • When the president of the Institute of Nationalized Humane Health Care, in an effort to save money, trains Swedish Elkhounds to kill disease-carrying people who send premiums skyrocketing, Harold Smith and CURE send Remo in destroy a sadistic dog han...



  • 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 woma...



  • WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ON THE PLANET! Few scientists actually believed the strange-looking animal touted to be a real-live dinosaur was a bona fide apatosaurus. Frankly, Punkin's species looked too damn cute to have survi...







  • 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 Murp...



  • 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...



  • A bungling terrorist group is making a mess in Europe. It's up to Remo to track them down and clean them out before the brainless bombers strike their next target: a summit of world leaders!

    As earthquakes rock the planet, Smith scramb...



  • With the Presidential election in full swing, "crumbling infrastructure" has become far more than a political talking point: bridges are falling apart all across America, leaving CURE baffled. Is a bloom of renegade algae eating away the brid...




  • The USA has been anything but United lately. From protests to counter-protests, from red hats to black masks, political tensions in America have reached a breaking point. After a demonstration in Little Rock turns deadly, it seems America is only day...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir has published 157 books.

Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Monumental Terror, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir, Death Check, was published in January 1972.

Yes. Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir has 2 series.