Bye Bye The Destroyer
And so my obsession with the destroyer novels has come to an end. A great series of novels originally written by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir about an ex-cop trained as an assassin to work for a secret US government sponsored agency. 149 books in total - although I only read 135.
I loved the first 107 books.
Collecting Destroyer novels provided endless excitement. Trawling through cardboard boxes of old paperbacks looking for those elusive missing numbers - and the excitement of finding a missing book. ebay has put an end to all of that now.
The publisher managed to ruin it for my by changing the writer although some of the later writers seemed OK, but my enthusiasm for the series had waned.
But I have finally finished all the Destroyers that I own and I don’t think I’ll buy any more.
The new Destroyer series never really took off for me - despite having Jim Mullaney as writer (Jim, Murphy, Sapir and Murray wrote the best destroyers).
So bye bye Remo and Chiun - I’ll miss you.
… until of course I learn to read French and then start collecting l’implacable.
