The Last Alchemist by Warren Murphy

Destroyer 64 The Last Alchemist by Warren Murphy

This novel starts out well. An extremely rich man goes to murderous lengths to uncover the secret of alchemy—turning lead into gold—something that requires him to steal a lot of uranium. This understandably attracts the attention of CURE and puts Remo and Chiun on the rich man’s trail. The rich man then sets an assassin on Remo and Chiun’s trail which offers Murphy the opportunity to really show how capable and flat out frightening his two heroes are.

 

The novel loses steam toward the end but has a very nice ending when Chiun finds out just who the villain of the story is. Overall, this is a credible Destroyer novel.