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The Destroyer #145
Dragon Bones
Dragon Bones by Murphy & Sapir released on Oct 10, 2006 is available now for purchase.
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 10, 2006
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Warren Murphy
295 books124 followersWarren Murphy was an American author, most famous as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. He worked as a reporter and editor and after service during the Korean War, he drifted into politics.
Murphy also wrote the screenplay for Lethal Weapon 2. He is the author of the Trace and Digger series. With Molly Cochran, he completed two books of a planned trilogy revolving around the character The Grandmaster, The Grandmaster (1984) and High Priest (1989). Murphy also shares writing credits with Cochran on The Forever King and several novels under the name Dev Stryker. The first Grandmaster book earned Murphy and Cochran a 1985 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, and Murphy's Pigs Get Fat took the same honor the following year.
His solo novels include Jericho Day, The Red Moon, The Ceiling of Hell, The Sure Thing and Honor Among Thieves. Over his career, Murphy sold over 60 million books.
He started his own publishing house, Ballybunion, to have a vehicle to start The Destroyer spin-off books. Ballybunion has reprinted The Assassin's Handbook, as well as the original works Assassin's Handbook 2, The Movie That Never Was (a screenplay he and Richard Sapir wrote for a Destroyer movie that was never optioned), The Way of the Assassin (the wisdom of Chiun), and New Blood, a collection of short stories written by fans of the series.
He served on the board of the Mystery Writers of America, and was a member of the Private Eye Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, the American Crime Writers League and the Screenwriters Guild.
Murphy also wrote the screenplay for Lethal Weapon 2. He is the author of the Trace and Digger series. With Molly Cochran, he completed two books of a planned trilogy revolving around the character The Grandmaster, The Grandmaster (1984) and High Priest (1989). Murphy also shares writing credits with Cochran on The Forever King and several novels under the name Dev Stryker. The first Grandmaster book earned Murphy and Cochran a 1985 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, and Murphy's Pigs Get Fat took the same honor the following year.
His solo novels include Jericho Day, The Red Moon, The Ceiling of Hell, The Sure Thing and Honor Among Thieves. Over his career, Murphy sold over 60 million books.
He started his own publishing house, Ballybunion, to have a vehicle to start The Destroyer spin-off books. Ballybunion has reprinted The Assassin's Handbook, as well as the original works Assassin's Handbook 2, The Movie That Never Was (a screenplay he and Richard Sapir wrote for a Destroyer movie that was never optioned), The Way of the Assassin (the wisdom of Chiun), and New Blood, a collection of short stories written by fans of the series.
He served on the board of the Mystery Writers of America, and was a member of the Private Eye Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, the American Crime Writers League and the Screenwriters Guild.
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May 21, 2024Book #: 44
Title: Dragon Bones
Author: Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
Series: The Destroyer #145
Format: Paperback, 349pages, own
Pub Date: October 2006
Started: 5/17/24 Finished: 5/19/24
Awards: none
Categories:
PS23 A book that features dragons; PS27 A book where someone dies in the first chapter; GR14 A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (Chiun is Oriental); GR25 A book involving a crime other than a murder (industrial espionage); GR37 A book that is part of a series (The Destroyer #145); GR49 A book with a senior citizen character (Chiun claims to be 120 years old); CCLS42 A Book with more than 200 Pages; CCLS50 A Book You Can Finish Fairly Quickly;
Rating: *** three out of five stars
"Punkin" is an apatsauras, a dinosaur that should have been extinct, ages ago. Dr. Nancy Derringer has been studying Punkin as her life's work. Remo Williams and Chiun are responsible for Punkin's capture. There's an unspoken agreement that Dr. Derringer can study the animal for as long as it lives, Chiun gets the body after death because there's an ancient Sinanju legend that the bones of a dragon can confer immortality. Someone pharmaceutical companies have also learned of this legend and will stop at nothing to possess the dinosaur, or its corpse. It's up to Remo and Chiun to save Chiun's dragon.
I was going camping this weekend, and rain was predicted, so I left the library books at home and grabbed a cheap paperback from my collection. The Destroyer novels are formulaic and a fast read. Normally, the series can be read in any order, but this novel actually references things that have happened in previous novels. It was not a barrier to the novel as the sequences were explained in sufficient detail.
Title: Dragon Bones
Author: Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
Series: The Destroyer #145
Format: Paperback, 349pages, own
Pub Date: October 2006
Started: 5/17/24 Finished: 5/19/24
Awards: none
Categories:
PS23 A book that features dragons; PS27 A book where someone dies in the first chapter; GR14 A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (Chiun is Oriental); GR25 A book involving a crime other than a murder (industrial espionage); GR37 A book that is part of a series (The Destroyer #145); GR49 A book with a senior citizen character (Chiun claims to be 120 years old); CCLS42 A Book with more than 200 Pages; CCLS50 A Book You Can Finish Fairly Quickly;
Rating: *** three out of five stars
"Punkin" is an apatsauras, a dinosaur that should have been extinct, ages ago. Dr. Nancy Derringer has been studying Punkin as her life's work. Remo Williams and Chiun are responsible for Punkin's capture. There's an unspoken agreement that Dr. Derringer can study the animal for as long as it lives, Chiun gets the body after death because there's an ancient Sinanju legend that the bones of a dragon can confer immortality. Someone pharmaceutical companies have also learned of this legend and will stop at nothing to possess the dinosaur, or its corpse. It's up to Remo and Chiun to save Chiun's dragon.
I was going camping this weekend, and rain was predicted, so I left the library books at home and grabbed a cheap paperback from my collection. The Destroyer novels are formulaic and a fast read. Normally, the series can be read in any order, but this novel actually references things that have happened in previous novels. It was not a barrier to the novel as the sequences were explained in sufficient detail.
March 29, 2021
Big Pharma
Big Pharma are chasing a dragon, they will kill for it, but it’s Chiuns. Remo to the rescue, a son honours his father, His little Father.
Big Pharma are chasing a dragon, they will kill for it, but it’s Chiuns. Remo to the rescue, a son honours his father, His little Father.
December 28, 2015
More of a 2.5. Pretty typical of the last 80 or so books written without Richard Ben Sapir. It's fun, but somehow lacks the humorous edge that Sapir managed to add. The political & social jabs take longer to develop & aren't nearly as biting because of that. Remo isn't quite as dense as he used to be, Chiun is every bit as cranky & the ridiculous action goes on, although there isn't quite as much. Still, for book #145, that's not terrible. Like the rest of the series, it's a quick read that anyone could pick up & enjoy. The back story is pretty evident.
February 24, 2016
One of the big men's adventure series from the 70's than ran an impressive 145 books. The series while an adventure/action story is also full of satire toward much of the mainstream fads and icons of the time. An interesting main character and the sarcastic mentor makes this a funny action/adventure read. The scientists who found, or created, a real-life dinosaur are murdered by a drug company who sees a formula for immortality among the dragon bones. Recommended
August 11, 2008
Awful. Don't know how I could have read so many of his series in the 1970s. Perhaps they were better then?
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