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Chinese Puzzle (The Destroyer) (Volume 3)
Chinese Puzzle - The Destroyer - Volume 3 Author:Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir YES, MR. PRESIDENT — The President of the United States sat in the large soft chair, his feet on a green hassock before him, his eyes riveted on predawn Washington. — His closest advisor was summing up in his professional manner: "It would not do to minimize what has happened. The dead man was, after all, a personal emissary from the Premier. But ... more »the Premier's visit to this country is still on. For one thing, the emissary was not poisoned over American territory."
"The people who poisoned him, who were they? We have no clues from our intelligence. The Russians? Taiwan? Who? And I don't want history. I want facts. I want hard information on how the Chinese security system was breached."
"That is unavailable as yet." ?
"All right, damn it, then I've decided." ?
The advisor looked up. "Yes?" ?
"That's it. I can't tell you any more."?
When he was alone, he lifted the receiver of a phone he had used only once since he had been inaugurated. The President said: "Hello. Sorry to wake you. I need his services?it is a grave crisis?I want to talk to him?tell him to stand by for immediate service?it's just an alert. Not a commitment."
But Remo Williams knew otherwise. Alert. Commitment. Hell, with him in the picture it was past the point of no return. It was them or us!
ABOUT THE SERIES: Sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, ex-cop Remo Williams is rescued from the electric chair and recruited by a secret government organization as an assassin, targeting criminals who are beyond the law. Remo's trainer is a curmudgeonly old Korean named Chiun, whose mastery of the terrifyingly powerful martial art of Sinanju makes him the deadliest man alive.
The winning combination of action, humor, and mysticism has made the Destroyer one of the best-selling series of all time. With more than 150 books and over 50 million copies sold worldwide, the Destroyer has been praised by the LA Times as "flights of hilarious satire," and gave birth to the mythology of the brash young Westerner taught by an ancient, inscrutable master.« less