James Mullaney on The New Destroyer: Dead Reckoning

I have been reading the Destroyer Series since I was a kid. The series which was created by Warren Murphy and Dick Sapir in the 1960's follows the adventures of Remo Williams an assassin working for a super secret government agency known as C.U.R.E . I can understand how that synopsis might not seem attractive to a lot of people, but what I truly love about them is how satirical the books are. The best of them are truly funny. Sometimes the books are truly inspired as when a retiring president and first lady steal white house furniture on the way out of the White House (a story written, incidentally, months before Bill and Hillary actually did that).

The books have had various ghost writers over the years and at times certain writers have written some pretty bad books. One of the best ghost writers was Jim Mullaney. He stopped writing the books because the then publisher refused to pay him what he was worth, but Warren Murphy has changed publishers and teamed up with Mullaney to write the New Destroyer series in a return to the old style. Here then is a Jim Mullaney audio interview with NR’s John J. Miller.

James Mullaney on The New Destroyer: Dead Reckoning