Review: Missing Link by Warren Murphy

Destroyer 39 Missing Link by Warren Murphy

President Carter’s brother-in-law, who I think (based on my elementary school recollections) is loosely (at least I hope it’s loosely) based on his brother, Billy Carter, disappears under mysterious circumstances and Remo has to find him. Frankly, there isn’t a lot in most of this book that required Remo’s skills, but it was still fun from beginning to end. The side plot was in many ways more memorable than the main storyline. Chiun has been watching Olympic Trials on television and realized that his Sinanju training makes him capable of winning in every category. It’s a delightful image—a ninety-year-old Korean man outlifting the weightlifters, out sprinting the runners, out jumping the jumpers, and so on. Chiun is, for all intents and purposes, superhuman. However, it would be difficult to keep the low profile required for their work for CURE if Chiun was on the cover of every magazine and cereal box. So Remo has to talk him out of this by convincing him that it would be against the rules for him to compete in his kimono. This only momentarily diverts Chiun who then realizes that Remo could compete for Sinanju instead. I presume that this is setting up the next novel which will occur during the Olympic Games in the Soviet Union.