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There is a secret only Chiun knows. America has committed a sin against him he cannot pardon — and he will not even share it with Remo Williams, the Destroyer, whom he has taught all his skills and loves as a son. Deep in Africa, countless feuds that have blazed for many centuries are quickly being resolved by death and massacre. A massive conspiracy is unearthed surrounding the centuries-old slave trade, and only Remo can unravel it.

In 1963 Warren Murphy, then secretary to the Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, and a reporter on the City Hall beat named Richard (Ben) Sapir decided to collaborate on an adventure novel featuring a brash young Westerner trained in the martial arts by an inscrutable Oriental Master. While it took some time for the idea to catch on (the first Destroyer novel was published in 1971), the theme quickly became a cherished part of popular fiction (e.g., The Karate Kid movies). There are now over 50 million copies of the Destroyer novels in print in 11 languages.

Eighty Destroyer books have now been written, together with a novelization of the movie Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, and the characters are as real as ever. Remo Williams, an ex-cop named after the Indiana town in which his hospital bed pan was manufactured, Iearns Sinanju, a fictional Korean Martial Art, at the hands of its venerable Master, Chiun.