Review: Balance of Power by Warren Murphy

Destroyer 44 Balance of Power by Warren Murphy (Ghost Co-Writer: Molly Cochran)

The best thing about this weak Destroyer novel is the foreword by Warren Murphy in which he gives some insights into his partnership with Richard Sapir in writing the books and sort of explains why Sapir has disappeared from the covers. Sapir then writes his own forward which I hope was meant to be humorous but makes him look insane.

 

The story is not actually much of a Destroyer novel. It’s really about an aging CIA man named Barney Daniels who has lost himself in a bottle and is both outing the CIA and killing people. Much of the novel is dedicated to finding out how Barney got this way and seeing if he can pull himself back together. I suppose it was an okay story, but it wasn’t what I look for in a Destroyer novel.