Voodoo Die — Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

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 deadly. And so is pro-Communist Generalissimo Sacrist Corazon -- President for Life of the island -- when he gets his hands on the Mung Machine and aims it at innocent Reverend Plumber.

Suddenly, the world is beating a path to Corazon's palace door. They've heard about the mung device and everyone wants to have at it -- the Chinese, the Russians, the CIA.

That's where Remo Williams, the Destroyer, and his teacher, Chiun, come in. But even they are stumped when Comrade Corazon not only manipulates Russia and China into building competing missile bases on Baqia -- he also starts casting spells, as chief priest of voodoo, their way.

As a last-ditch equal opportunity gesture, the CIA sends in lovely and black Ruby Gonzalez, quite capable of casting her own spells. But even her black magic may not be able to save Remo and Chiun from Corazon's deadly tar pits and the United States from total nuclear extinction!