The Destroyer Books in Order

Framed for murder, police officer Remo Williams is rescued from execution and recruited by CURE, a secret government agency. His new instructor, Chiun, must turn him into an assassin capable of confronting criminals beyond the law.

A Chinese diplomat's death and an adviser's abduction draw Remo Williams and Chiun into an international conspiracy. With tensions between America and China rising, they must find the missing man before the plot triggers a nuclear crisis.

A security officer's murder points CURE toward the Brewster Forum, an influential think tank with dangerous secrets. Remo and Chiun investigate stolen information and compromised members as the organization's ambitions extend far beyond academic discussion.

Powerful officials are acting against America's interests, and foreign policy appears to be available for purchase. Unable to trust his own government, the president calls on Remo Williams to discover who is controlling the people around him.

A scientist has developed a way to cause earthquakes and threatens California unless his demands are met. Remo Williams and Chiun must stop the extortion scheme before an invention capable of destroying cities is put to use.

A Mafia kingpin threatens to flood America with an enormous shipment of heroin. Remo Williams and Chiun head into the criminal world around the Jersey shore, where stopping the operation means confronting an organization with much to protect.

Union leader Eugene Jethro wants more than control of the nation's drivers and shipping. As opponents disappear and his ambitions grow, Remo and Chiun investigate the organization behind a campaign that threatens to reshape American power.

A rock festival becomes a dangerous assignment when a red-haired woman attracts a million-dollar bounty. With singers close to her turning up dead, Remo Williams and Chiun must protect their target and identify the people pursuing her.

A plan to remove a corrupt politician exposes CURE and puts the secret agency's survival at risk. Remo Williams and Chiun must deal with the scandal while trying to preserve the organization that gives their work its purpose.

Criminals and corrupt officials are being killed by a group of renegade police officers. Remo Williams faces an uncomfortable assignment: stopping men who claim to be enforcing justice while their vigilante campaign spreads beyond official control.

The discovery of an apparently enslaved aristocratic woman in a coffin in Baltimore threatens an international incident. Remo and Chiun investigate a trail reaching Africa, where old conflicts and Chiun's guarded knowledge complicate the case.

Scambia's president wants an honest government, but his vice president and criminal backers have different plans. Remo Williams enters an African political struggle in which turning the country into a haven for international crime promises enormous rewards.

A wave of terrorism threatens the balance among three major world powers. Remo Williams and Chiun must track a ruthless operator whose assassins and political ambitions could turn scattered attacks into a far wider international crisis.

A new director orders Remo Williams and Chiun to kill Harold Smith, the head of CURE. Chiun refuses to accept the assignment, and questions about the commander's identity turn a search for Smith into a crisis of loyalty.

Rebels seize Wounded Elk without knowing that a secret American nuclear installation lies nearby. Remo Williams and Chiun must prevent the arsenal from falling into hostile hands as another enemy seeks the weapon hidden outside town.

Routine operations at the Robler Clinic are ending in suspicious deaths. When a patient important to CURE dies there, Remo Williams and Chiun infiltrate the hospital to uncover the profitable arrangement hiding behind its medical procedures.

A coup in Lobynia threatens America's oil supply, prompting a scientist to develop an alternative extraction process. When the inventor is found dead, Remo Williams and Chiun must confront the forces determined to keep the country dependent.

Remo Williams must defend the House of Sinanju against his enemy Nuihc. With Chiun watching and the ancient tradition's future at stake, the confrontation gives Remo only a single opportunity to prove the depth of his training.

A wealthy inventor offers starving nations seeds that mature in a month, demanding their treasures in return. Remo and Chiun investigate the miraculous food solution as foreign agents and criminals compete to control its valuable formula.

Perfect counterfeit dollars threaten the American economy, and the mysterious Mr. Gordons demands a NASA computer program to stop the flood. Remo Williams must discover why someone with such unusual powers wants technology designed for distant space.

A celebrated holy man draws Remo and Chiun into trouble in India. When a death on sacred ground is followed by an earthquake, political alarm and international attention complicate an assignment that initially seemed straightforward.

A killer is collecting the brains of artists, writers and composers. After CURE's director narrowly escapes an attack, Remo and Chiun follow the murders toward Hollywood, where an enemy's obsession with creativity creates a dangerous new confrontation.

People in witness protection are turning up dead, threatening hundreds of criminal cases. Remo Williams and Chiun investigate the children carrying out the murders and the unseen trainers who have made them unusually difficult opponents.

A government investigation cripples America's intelligence network, leaving its spies vulnerable and Soviet killers free to operate. Remo Williams and Chiun become the remaining defense against an international campaign taking advantage of the sudden security collapse.

The desecration of a sacred stone in a New York museum brings violent reprisals from its guardians. When a congressman becomes a victim, Remo Williams must investigate the killings and stop the campaign of revenge.

A professor invents a machine that displays people's private fantasies on television. Criminals want to sell it, broadcasters want to suppress it, and CURE knows it can kill, leaving Remo Williams caught between competing schemes.

The Saxon Lords control their New York territory through violence, intimidating even the police. When an elderly woman is brutally attacked, Remo Williams and Chiun enter the neighborhood to confront the gang and challenge its hold.

A luxury liner offered as the United Nations' new headquarters hides a bomb timed for its opening gala. Remo Williams has broken with CURE, but his former chief's peril forces him to reconsider walking away.

A slaughtered restaurant owner and poisoned hotel guests suggest a campaign against America's meat eaters. Chiun recognizes an ancient prophecy behind the violence, and he and Remo investigate a cult whose conspiracy conceals a supernatural threat.

A murdered executive serves as a warning that the president could be next. Despite elaborate White House security, Remo Williams and Chiun believe the danger is real and must protect a leader who feels far too safe.

Murders in Israel signal a plot by former Nazis who have discovered the location of a secret atomic stockpile. Remo Williams and Chiun race through the desert to prevent fanatics from turning that knowledge into catastrophe.

A coordinated attack leaves fourteen young Black men kidnapped, and CURE fears a dangerous threat close to home. Its director urgently needs Remo Williams and Chiun, but both field agents have disappeared when they're needed most.

Scientist Sheila Feinberg's experiments transform her into a deadly tiger-like predator. She targets Remo Williams as the partner for a new hybrid race, leaving him and Chiun struggling to stop an enemy with terrifying physical advantages.

An old CIA assassination operation is accidentally activated, sending dormant killers after Soviet officials. Remo Williams and Chiun must protect the Soviet premier before the escalating murders destroy the fragile peace and trigger a world war.

A Caribbean dictator gains control of a devastating new weapon, drawing rival powers into a bidding war. Remo and Chiun head to Baqia to stop him before the threat reaches the United States.

Bay City's new mayor attracts organized crime and vigilantes while promising to revive the struggling town. CURE orders Remo and Chiun to keep him alive, even as his plans threaten to make crime flourish.

A scientist discovers how to isolate emotions and inject them into other creatures. When her research becomes a weapon, Remo Williams confronts an enemy who could make even his extraordinary abilities vulnerable to fear.

Wesley Pruiss disguises an adult film project as a solar energy venture in rural Indiana. Powerful energy interests and CURE believe his cover story, turning an unlikely business scheme into a potentially deadly confrontation.

Terrorist threats turn the Olympics into a target for a racist determined to attack America's athletes. Remo and Chiun join the team to track down the attackers before another bombing destroys the games.

Ordered to kill his friend Ruby, Remo quits CURE rather than obey. Chiun stays loyal to the organization, leaving their partnership divided just as an arson gang threatens a New York crippled by a firefighters' strike.

The President's troublesome brother-in-law vanishes after lucrative dealings with foreign governments. Remo and Chiun face competing suspects, including terrorists and intelligence agencies, while trying to untangle a disappearance with dangerous implications for national security.

Scientists developing an oil-producing tree are being murdered at a lumber company. Remo and Chiun must protect the surviving researcher and discover who wants to stop a breakthrough that could transform the energy business.

A former CIA agent's drunken disclosures point toward a missile threat hidden in Hispania. Remo and Chiun must untangle his unreliable memories and the people manipulating him before Washington becomes the target of an attack.

An inventor uses an invisibility substance to become a killer no one can see. Remo and Chiun pursue him as a deposed ruler under American protection becomes the target of a lucrative assassination plot.

Corpses on St. Maarten bear the marks of Sinanju, a martial art supposedly known only to Remo and Chiun. Their investigation leads toward a mysterious castle and an enemy who knows their deadliest secrets.

Soldiers are falling under a preacher's influence while military chaplains are murdered. Remo and Chiun investigate an army answering to an unknown authority, trying to prevent America's own troops from being turned against the country.

A murdered California garbage collector seemingly reappears beside a scientist, leading Remo and Chiun toward an old enemy. Their investigation reaches Moscow, where imprisonment leaves them struggling to stop a conspiracy threatening the United States.

Diet guru Felix Foxx attracts wealthy followers while military leaders begin dying. Remo and Chiun investigate his weight-loss retreat, where the pursuit of youth and slimness conceals a plot reaching far beyond its paying guests.

A bacterium designed to clean oil spills mutates, threatening the world's petroleum supplies. Remo confronts the resulting struggle for control while Chiun's promise of gold for his village draws the mentor toward the opposing side.

A stolen nuclear-armed stealth bomber brings Remo and Chiun to an uncharted island near the Florida Keys. There they face an ex-Nazi's plans for destruction as international peace talks leave the world dangerously exposed.

An ancient inscription points toward a mountain of gold large enough to destabilize the world's economy. Remo and Chiun must protect the woman who can decipher its clues from powerful rivals determined to claim it.

An unusually addictive shipment of Colombian coffee disrupts the drug trade and leaves Americans desperate for another cup. Remo and Chiun must trace the threat before an everyday habit becomes a nationwide crisis of dependency.

The mysterious promise of Abraxas spreads as leading minds, including CURE's director, disappear. Remo and Chiun investigate whether the advertised age of worldwide cooperation conceals a threat that could make their own organization obsolete.

American archaeologists disappear after seeing advanced weapons in Guatemala's jungle. Remo and Chiun investigate with another archaeologist, only to face an ancient conflict and a journey that puts them far beyond their own time.

Mysterious deaths across the Sunbelt lead Remo and Chiun to women imprisoned in a mountain fortress. They must disrupt a scheme using the captives to compromise powerful Americans before the blackmail threatens the country's government.

A supposed alien recruits followers to disable America's nuclear weapons. CURE sends Remo and Chiun to stop the campaign, but Chiun believes an ancient Sinanju legend is unfolding and joins the group Remo must confront.

Remo and Chiun face an ancient tournament of mortal combat shadowed by a prophecy that a Sinanju master will fall. Meanwhile, CURE's director must return to fieldwork himself to protect the President from attack.

Passengers on Just Folks airlines are turning up robbed and strangled, victims of a murderous cult devoted to Kali. Remo and Chiun investigate the deaths before the killers can spread fear throughout the airline industry.

Falling drug statistics conceal a growing trade run through teenage dealers whose charges go uncounted. Remo and Chiun follow the operation to Detroit, searching for the people exploiting young offenders to hide their criminal business.

An animal-rights extremist funds scientists breeding flies whose bites transform people into mindless fighters. Remo and Chiun must confront a scheme that could disrupt the world's ecological balance and force humanity under its creator's control.

Bored billionaire Abner Buell devises a game using unsuspecting people as players, with global catastrophe among its rewards. Remo Williams and a British agent must find the man controlling events before his entertainment triggers nuclear war.

The Wo family has spent two thousand years preserving a grievance against the House of Sinanju. Its descendants now command a worldwide network devoted to killing the Master, placing Chiun and his pupil Remo in danger.

Remo Williams and Chiun confront Rubin Dolomo, a wealthy cult leader whose POWERESSENCE movement has political ambitions. His brainwashing scheme threatens to seize control of the American government, forcing the assassins to challenge his growing influence.

A law firm manufactures accidents, then profits from the resulting lawsuits and compensation. Ordered to expose the conspiracy through legal channels, Remo and Chiun investigate staged disasters while seeking the hidden figure directing the deadly fraud.

Harrison Caldwell discovers an ancient formula that could turn him into a modern Midas and finance a nation within America. Remo and Chiun must challenge his ambitions, but their martial skills face an unfamiliar opponent.

A corporation damages the ozone layer and accidentally disables a Soviet missile base, provoking fears of an American attack. Remo and Chiun must stop a nuclear countdown while dealing with a scientist whose cooperation is uncertain.

Violent uprisings erupt across America, the Middle East, and Mongolia, driven by a force only Chiun understands. Remo and his teacher must confront the god of war while searching for the missing means to defeat him.

An inventor's garbage-powered car demonstrations repeatedly become assassination traps, and Remo Williams gets the blame. Chiun is dispatched to stop the apparent culprit, placing teacher and pupil on a dangerous collision course over Remo's murderous double.

Soviet operative Anna Chutesov becomes entangled with Remo Williams, whose abilities impress her more than her own country's agents. Yet Remo faces a confrontation with his teacher Chiun, threatening the partnership that makes them so dangerous.

Badly injured Chiun asks Remo to take him home to Sinanju, confronting his pupil with the prospect of succession. Strange developments involving America and Russia threaten their contract while Remo weighs loyalty to teacher and country.

A president-elect threatens to dismantle CURE after learning its secret, while a suspicious bodyguard intervenes in assassination attempts. Remo's old enemy returns as uncertainty over Smith and the agency's future draws the assassins into renewed conflict.

Herr Lutsturz rallies followers around racial hatred and uses artificial limbs to wield extraordinary strength. His determination to kill CURE director Harold Smith sends Remo and Chiun hunting for the origins of a threat rooted in Nazism.

The android Mr. Gordons returns from space with a Soviet device capable of silently sterilizing a population. Remo, Chiun, and an unreliable Russian spy must stop his revenge before America suffers an irreversible attack.

Remo learns that American prisoners may still be held in a hidden Vietnamese camp and launches an unauthorized rescue. Chiun must follow his renegade pupil into the jungle as old memories and present danger become entangled.

A thief penetrates a top-secret nuclear missile installation with alarming ease, stealing secrets that should be inaccessible. Remo and Chiun must overcome their own distractions and identify the intruder before more sensitive information falls into enemy hands.

Remo and Chiun travel to Moo, an island ruled by a greedy master and troubled by rebellion. A grasping princess, a fraudulent psychic, and mercenaries add to the danger as the assassins confront competing schemes.

An electromagnetic weapon launches massive locomotives into the air, turning falling trains into instruments of terror. Remo and Chiun hunt its mastermind while Smith's faith in a new computer system threatens to misdirect CURE's response.

A television evangelist's pursuit of a religious relic provokes an international conflict and retaliatory terrorist attacks. Remo and Chiun must intervene discreetly as religious extremists and commercial interests threaten to turn the dispute into a larger disaster.

Remo awakens on death row with no memory of the previous twenty years, while Chiun is away in Sinanju. Smith's removal and failing health leave CURE vulnerable to a new leader whose intentions are suspect.

A campaign to reclaim Britain's former colonies threatens to collapse America's financial system. Chiun takes command of a corporation and targets the Crown Jewels, while Remo works to stop the economic attack from ruining the country.

A Japanese corporation targets Yuma, Arizona, with a movie star unknowingly involved in its plans. Remo's disastrous parachute jump leaves Chiun confronting a crisis complicated by Shiva's intervention and the possibility of devastating destruction.

A Chinese dissident reaches America carrying a box with a valuable secret, and CURE wants him protected there. Chiun's interest in its contents instead draws him toward China, leaving Remo to confront a dangerous complication.

Air Force One crashes in South America, and the android Mr. Gordons takes a destructive role in the rescue. Remo and Chiun must recover the president, confront the machine, and conceal the operation from the world.

As the Middle East nears war, Remo's connection with the goddess Kali threatens consequences far beyond the battlefield. Chiun must resort to Sinanju's sword while both men struggle against forces that could bring global destruction.

The disappearance of an Iraiti ambassador provokes demands for revenge from dictator Maddas Hinsein. Sent into the crisis, Remo falls under the influence of Kali, leaving Chiun to confront a danger that threatens his pupil and the world.

Sky Blue's fascination with nuclear weapons and conman Connors Swindell's ambitions lead to an entire town's destruction. CURE must intervene before their partnership inflicts further catastrophe, sending its assassins against a threat with terrifying destructive potential.

California calls an emergency election after its governor and lieutenant governor are killed. When the replacement candidates become assassination targets too, Remo and Chiun must protect three contenders before the contest is decided by more bloodshed.

Debt threatens billionaire Randal T. Rumpp's empire, and he makes a bargain with a sinister force to recover his position. Remo and Chiun must stop the deal from plunging New York into a catastrophic fate.

Remo Williams and Chiun confront the Mafia through a deadly computer game, where the stakes extend beyond electronic competition. Their mission combines criminal power with technology, forcing the assassins to find a way through an unfamiliar threat.

Customers begin dying after eating Chicken King poultry, drawing Remo Williams and Chiun into an investigation. Their search points toward a vegetarian vigilante, forcing them to identify who has turned an ordinary meal into a deadly weapon.

An attack on Cuba convinces Castro that America is responsible, prompting him to send a fighter jet against a Florida nuclear plant. Remo and Chiun must intervene before a mistaken retaliation becomes a catastrophe for both countries.

A new food promises free, delicious meals until its enthusiastic consumers start dying. Remo and Chiun investigate the lethal ingredient, but a senator and a seductive woman complicate a mission that threatens their partnership as well as public safety.

Captain Audion disrupts America's television transmissions and kidnaps news anchor Cheeta Ching. Remo must defeat the villain and rescue his captive before a scheme targeting the country's screens can turn a communications crisis into a wider disaster.

Reports of a huge dinosaur in the African jungle draw Remo into a race to find the creature. A fast-food entrepreneur has plans to turn it into hamburger, making the discovery a contest between protection and profit.

New Age celebrity Squirrelly Chicane accepts a Himalayan delegation's claim that she is the reincarnated Bunji Lama. Her rise to power draws America into China's confrontation with Tibet, leaving Remo and Chiun to contain the dangerous dispute.

Remo learns that CURE chief Harold Smith might be his biological father, unsettling their professional relationship. Smith wants him out of the organization, while an old enemy sees an opportunity to exploit the resulting conflict between them.

An artificial intelligence called Friend hijacks CURE's computer system and unleashes a virus against other networks. With financial chaos spreading and his assassins alienated, Harold Smith must confront an electronic enemy capable of holding the world hostage.

A series of celebrity impersonations leads Remo to discover that the First Lady has been kidnapped. Her replacement is a Hollywood double whose attention to the president turns a puzzling investigation into an urgent threat to national leadership.

Remo prepares for the Sinanju Rite of Attainment, a demanding test that sends him around the world. As his abilities are pushed to their limits, he begins to suspect that completing the challenge may offer death rather than advancement.

A powerful laser uses color to manipulate emotions, plunging people into dangerous mood swings. When a rival nation considers broadcasting the effect from satellites, Remo and Chiun must rely on senses beyond sight to stop mass control.