Wolf's Bane

The Destroyer #132

by Warren Murphy (Series Creator), Richard Sapir (Series Creator), Michael Newton

Fast-paced action. Mind-twisting irony. Page-turning excitement. Look no further than The Destroyer(R) to attract a large audience of action-adventure book buyers. A wild child of the bayous, Leon Grosvenor is a two-legged freak show of shaggy hair and talons with an insatiable hunger for raw flesh. These unique abilities make him the perfect contract killer for Cajun mafia boss Armand "Big Crawdaddy" Fortier. Their current target: Remo Williams. As Leon and his pack circle closer to The Destroyer, the question remains: Who is the hunter...and who is dog meat?

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 2003

About the author

Warren Murphy was an American author, most famous as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. He worked as a reporter and editor and after service during the Korean War, he drifted into politics.

Murphy also wrote the screenplay for Lethal Weapon 2. He is the author of the Trace and Digger series. With Molly Cochran, he completed two books of a planned trilogy revolving around the character The Grandmaster, The Grandmaster (1984) and High Priest (1989). Murphy also shares writing credits with Cochran on The Forever King and several novels under the name Dev Stryker. The first Grandmaster book earned Murphy and Cochran a 1985 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, and Murphy's Pigs Get Fat took the same honor the following year.

His solo novels include Jericho Day, The Red Moon, The Ceiling of Hell, The Sure Thing and Honor Among Thieves. Over his career, Murphy sold over 60 million books.

He started his own publishing house, Ballybunion, to have a vehicle to start The Destroyer spin-off books. Ballybunion has reprinted The Assassin's Handbook, as well as the original works Assassin's Handbook 2, The Movie That Never Was (a screenplay he and Richard Sapir wrote for a Destroyer movie that was never optioned), The Way of the Assassin (the wisdom of Chiun), and New Blood, a collection of short stories written by fans of the series.

He served on the board of the Mystery Writers of America, and was a member of the Private Eye Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, the American Crime Writers League and the Screenwriters Guild.

Reviews

[John Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

This site and others credit Mike Newton for ghostwriting it. The actual book does not acknowledge the ghostwriter. Wikipedia once credited comic book writer Doug Murray with penning #132, and I suspect this is true. Whoever wrote it was very familiar with the series' lore(many fans said Newton wrote them like he had never read a Destroyer) and there are a lot of monster movie references. Murray wrote for The Monster Times in the 70s. It's an adequate adventure for Remo and Chiun, marred only by Gold Eagle's strange insistence that every volume be 350 pages. It leads to padding and affects the pacing. Gimme the old slim Pinnacle paperbacks any day.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of the big men's adventure series from the 70's than ran an impressive 145 books. The series while an adventure/action story is also full of satire toward much of the mainstream fads and icons of the time. An interesting main character and the sarcastic mentor makes this a funny action/adventure read. Whether the murderer really is a werewolf as the locals are claiming doesn't interest Remo as just wants to remove a killer. The killer is also hunting Remo. Recommended

[Joseph Chin Cheong · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good read

The destroyer never disappoints. Good read with great action that keeps you reading, and wanting more. Chuin as usual was masterful.

[Colin Hopper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wolf man verses are o

The Mob, a Wolfman, and Judith White, who will win, more excitement, more mayhem, more fun. Through in some politicians and a a Preacher. Recommended