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Rating: 
Summary: Surpisingly Acceptable Story
Review: After seeing all the negative reviews on amazon.com, I was going to skip this one at first. The story is actually fairly tight. Although it didn't read quite as smoothly as most of Jim Mullaney's novels, it was a decent adventure story. A lot of the dialogue between Remo and Chiun and Remo and Smith seemed forced / unnatural, but that is really the only problem I saw with the book. If you want a really good Destroyer, pick up Assassin's Handbook 2 at warrenmurphy dot com - he may still have a few autographed copies available.
Rating:
Summary: Surpisingly Acceptable Story
Review: After seeing all the negative reviews on amazon.com, I was going to skip this one at first. The story is actually fairly tight. Although it didn't read quite as smoothly as most of Jim Mullaney's novels, it was a decent adventure story. A lot of the dialogue between Remo and Chiun and Remo and Smith seemed forced / unnatural, but that is really the only problem I saw with the book. If you want a really good Destroyer, pick up Assassin's Handbook 2 at warrenmurphy dot com - he may still have a few autographed copies available.
Rating: 
Summary: As bad as it gets
Review: This is a terrible book. Others might give it a pass by calling it typical as a men's adventure novel, but the Destroyer has never been like any other men's adventure series, and to be typical alone would make it bad by Destroyer standards. But in case you're satisfied with typical rest assured Troubled Waters goes beyond that. The writing is bad even by the loosest men's adventure standards. It is horrific by Destroyer standards. I agree with the reviewer who suggests that series fans have made out the "terrible trio" of a few years back to be an impossible pinnacle (pardon the pun) to reach. Those books were very bad but so is this one. While it is true that true fans of the Destroyer know that Bamboo Dragon wins any race that doesn't make this turkey any better. Don't make the same mistake I did. Save your money!
Rating:
Summary: As bad as it gets
Review: Well, it wasn't all that bad. For a standard men's adventure, it was pretty typical stuff: trite plot, shallow characterizations, longer on action than intelligence. It was readable.
However, Destoyer fans are used to a bit more. Most of us have read scores of these books, we KNOW who these characters are, what they think, how they interact. This book came across sort of blurred, as if written by someone who didn't quite get it, wasn't comfortable with parody and subtlety. It's not as blatantly bad as the worst ones...
This book sort of dumbs it all down, sort of tries to turn this into just another men's adventure series. What do you think? Will Mack Bolan guest star in a future book?
Get it to complete your collection. Don't expect the worst, but don't expect to be enthralled either! Remo and Chiun are out there somewhere...we're just waiting for them to come back!
Rating: 
Summary: There have been worse...
Review: Well, it wasn't all that bad. For a standard men's adventure, it was pretty typical stuff: trite plot, shallow characterizations, longer on action than intelligence. It was readable.
However, Destoyer fans are used to a bit more. Most of us have read scores of these books, we KNOW who these characters are, what they think, how they interact. This book came across sort of blurred, as if written by someone who didn't quite get it, wasn't comfortable with parody and subtlety. It's not as blatantly bad as the worst ones...
This book sort of dumbs it all down, sort of tries to turn this into just another men's adventure series. What do you think? Will Mack Bolan guest star in a future book?
Get it to complete your collection. Don't expect the worst, but don't expect to be enthralled either! Remo and Chiun are out there somewhere...we're just waiting for them to come back!
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