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posies23's review
4.0
There's not as much humor in this one as in #3, which was a bit of a letdown. This time, Remo takes on the mob's attempt to create a nation-wide heroin ring. As usual, there's a lot of action, some satire, and a LOT of non-politically correct adventures.
Murphy and Sapir keep this one moving, and it's another entertaining popcorn read, as long as you're willing to check your brain at the door and just go with it.
Murphy and Sapir keep this one moving, and it's another entertaining popcorn read, as long as you're willing to check your brain at the door and just go with it.
professorfate's review
4.0
“Mafia Fix” is the fourth book in the Destroyer series (instead of me rehashing the series, just follow the link for an explanation of it). If you’ve seen the movie “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins,” then you know the character (even though the movie, while fun doesn’t do justice to the character).
In this installment, the Mafia has brought in a huge shipment of heroin (four truckloads) via ship, which could bring in billions of dollars. While the government knows that the stuff came in, they are unable to intercept it, and now they don’t know where it is being kept, and if that amount of heroin were to hit the streets, the results would be catastrophic. So the President calls on CURE, the super-secret agency that nobody but he knows about, to get the situation resolved. What follows is typical Destroyer: Remo goes in, figures out what’s going on and takes care of things—however they need to be taken care of (usually with much violence).
The series is a men’s adventure series, and it is a lot of fun if you like dumb action movies. The novels are short, all plot and the villains are cardboard cutouts. You go in knowing what to expect, turn your brain off and have some fun. And the interplay between Remo and his Korean mentor Chiun is priceless.
Need a break? Pull out the eReader (unless you can find an old paperback), curl up on the couch, and enjoy.
In this installment, the Mafia has brought in a huge shipment of heroin (four truckloads) via ship, which could bring in billions of dollars. While the government knows that the stuff came in, they are unable to intercept it, and now they don’t know where it is being kept, and if that amount of heroin were to hit the streets, the results would be catastrophic. So the President calls on CURE, the super-secret agency that nobody but he knows about, to get the situation resolved. What follows is typical Destroyer: Remo goes in, figures out what’s going on and takes care of things—however they need to be taken care of (usually with much violence).
The series is a men’s adventure series, and it is a lot of fun if you like dumb action movies. The novels are short, all plot and the villains are cardboard cutouts. You go in knowing what to expect, turn your brain off and have some fun. And the interplay between Remo and his Korean mentor Chiun is priceless.
Need a break? Pull out the eReader (unless you can find an old paperback), curl up on the couch, and enjoy.
gengelcox's review
adventurous
fast-paced
1.0
Just as Murphy and Sapir discover the secret to the Destroyer series in the third book, they crash and burn in the fourth. Yes, Chiun is around this time, but not nearly enough. What’s worse, the authors likely bowed to pressure from their publisher who had to remind them that men’s action adventure pulp novels needed to contain a fair amount of sex. Murphy & Sapir, as was their wont, took that to the extreme. It’s not that they went pornographic, just the amount and the, umn, athleticism of it all.
The plot centers around a huge heroin shipment into the US by the mafia in order to crash the drug market and drive out all those little dealers who kept popping up, basically to then corner the market. Some of the elements are surprising, such as putting the four container trucks into cold storage. But mostly it’s just Remo killing his way through the usual suspects until he finds the mastermind behind it all, and if you understand the way this series works, it’s pretty obvious who that person is.
Given that they wrote these books in a month or two, at least in the few years, a few clunkers should be expected. Definitely skippable, except for the insane like me.
vulco1's review
3.0
Classic Remo Williams book. It starts with a mission and some training. He investigates, finds a lady, saves the US of A
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