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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.

The murder of a Black leader brings detectives Ed Razoni and William Jackson together on a volatile case. Their contrasting personalities and sharp exchanges shape an investigation through a city where racial tensions complicate the search for answers.

Detectives Razoni and Jackson investigate the murders of sex workers in New York. Their search takes them through a neighborhood of suspicious businesses and reluctant witnesses, while their constant arguments accompany a difficult hunt for the killer.

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.

Truck hijackings draw detectives Ed Razoni and William Jackson into another case, but the investigation becomes personal when they are suspected of murder. The partners must pursue the criminals while dealing with accusations against themselves.

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.

The murder of a police officer in Little Italy threatens to ignite a gang war. Razoni and Jackson investigate rival gambling operations, but their personal connections to the crime bosses complicate their efforts to discover who's responsible.

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.

Driving south, Razoni and Jackson stop in an Alabama town where racism reaches into local law enforcement. A bank robbery and the town's hostility entangle the visiting detectives in trouble that threatens more than their travel plans.

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 mystery writer is found murdered in a locked room, with its only key still in his hand. Lieutenant Anthony Jezail asks mathematics professor David Vincent Leonardo to help explain a crime that seems impossible.

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.

As gambling interests transform Atlantic City, the Devlin family refuses to surrender its valuable property. Their stand pits them against wealthy developers and the Mafia, whose pressure escalates from intimidation to violence and murder.

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.

Insurance investigator Digger checks on his boss's daughter at a university where a chain letter appears connected to murders. With her name threatened, he must discover who's behind the killings before another student dies.

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.

A plane crash kills forty pilgrims, leaving their insurance payments to the reverend whose retreat they were attending. Digger and Tamiko investigate the suspicious claim, encountering a faith healer, a widow, and potentially deadly lies.

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.

Digger tries to persuade a widow to accept an insurance payout for her husband's accidental death. Her doubts open a murder investigation, and threats against him and his girlfriend make closing the claim increasingly dangerous.

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.

Digger investigates the death of a doctor's wife for his insurance employer. Crashing her funeral seems a useful way to gather answers, but his search must establish whether a suspicious death was accidental or murder.

Former CIA agent Christopher Caldwell withdrew after his wife and child were killed. His father-in-law's apparent fishing accident pulls him back into a web of betrayal involving stolen art, oil interests, and international intrigue.

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.

Insurance investigator Devlin Tracy is assigned to discover whether a doctor is killing his patients. With bills mounting and his girlfriend away, he must unravel suspicious deaths before the investigation puts his own life at risk.

A policyholder's murder and missing jewels bring Trace into a Las Vegas insurance case worth millions. A contessa's crowded circle of dubious aristocrats, entertainers, and hangers-on gives him plenty of suspects and few straightforward answers.

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.

American spy Justin Gilead and Soviet strategist Alexander Zharkov first meet as rival childhood chess prodigies. Their competition becomes an international struggle shaped by mysticism and forces drawing them toward a contest only one can win.

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.

The murder of an anti-Nazi professor draws former Secret Service agent Steve Hooks into an investigation. His search brings him up against fanatical neo-Nazis whose plans extend far beyond silencing a single outspoken writer.

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.

Trace and his girlfriend Chico travel to Manhattan to investigate an insured man's mysterious death. The case draws them into cocaine trafficking, forcing the investigator to unravel a crime with more behind it than a claim.

This Destroyer companion gathers Chiun's observations, articles, an interview with the series' creators, and the novella The Day Remo Died. It explores the characters and history surrounding Remo Williams and the fictional art of Sinanju.

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.

Desperate for money, Trace accepts an insurance assignment involving a missing animal-loving tycoon and a two-million-dollar claim. His investigation brings him among dangerous suspects whose interests make proving what happened anything but a routine job.

Trace's San Francisco vacation ends when his insurer asks him to locate missing real estate agent Thomas Collins. Following the man's extensive romantic entanglements, he must determine what happened before an expensive policy becomes a payout.

A Brooklyn police officer wakes with a new face, a new identity, and news of his own death. Recruited as Remo Williams, he trains with Korean master Chiun to stop a weapons dealer's destructive plans.

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.

Devlin Tracy tackles three mysteries involving a dead cult leader, a Mafia marriage, and a broadcaster's daughter. With Chico threatening to leave him, he needs help from his father and two cops to untangle the cases.

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.

Insurance investigator Devlin Tracy is hired to keep accident-prone movie star Tony McCue alive until filming finishes. A crew member's mysterious death turns his babysitting assignment into a search for a killer among the production's troubled personalities.

American spy Justin Gilead and Soviet intelligence chief Alexander Zharkov face a series of American deaths in Moscow. Their rivalry draws them into a deadly contest, unaware that a third opponent threatens to outmatch them both.

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.

A small Irish town becomes the intended setting for an IRA killer's most audacious operation. His plan to assassinate the Pope threatens to shake the world, leaving the unsuspecting community at the center of impending terror.

IRS computer troubleshooter Matt Taylor notices a small anomaly repeating tens of thousands of times. His investigation exposes a conspiracy aimed at controlling the government and American lives, placing him in the path of its ruthless organizers.

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.