Review: Ship of Death by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir

Destroyer 28 Ship of Death by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir

This was another weak Destroyer novel with only two truly interesting elements. First, Remo and Chiun decide to cease working for CURE and the U.S. and find a new client. In this case, they choose Iran which is still ruled by the Shah. I thought the decision to do this was fascinating, but the groundwork was poorly laid. Remo is simply feeling disillusioned and Chiun really doesn’t put much effort into finding himself the best deal post-America. He simply settles on Iran because Persia had paid well hundreds of years earlier.

 

The better element was the bad guy who got a tremendous amount of camera footage of Remo and was trying to analyze his abilities. This storyline wouldn’t work later in the series when Murphy and Sapir decided that Chiun and Remo couldn’t be filmed, but it was interesting to watch the attempt to analyze their weaknesses in order to kill them.

 

Overall, this was another very weak book whose plot made little sense (the United Nations decides to leave New York and set up headquarters in a half mile long cruise ship where someone is killing off delegates). I’m hoping the next book will be better.