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I don't get it. I keep reading reviews of this new author's work which feel his characterization of the dynamic between Remo and Chiun as "off." I will agree that in the first book, "Bloody Tourists," their sparring was a bit ... sharper ... than usual, but in my opinion this has been corrected. Someone was saying the respect Remo has had for Chiun has been lost ... I'd like to know which version of the Destroyer books he's been reading, because the Remo I know has been irritated with Chiun since day one. True, they do have that father-son dynamic, but it's in these books as well, palin as day. The repartee between them has always been like that of an old married couple, and it holds true in these newer books as well. I've not read all 137 books in the Destroyer series, but I've certainly read more than three. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 or 30, scattered throughout the various authors, from Murphy and Sapir to Murray to Mullaney and now Somheil. Different strokes for different folks, I guess ... but this is one reviewer who is quite happy with the direction in which the series seems to be headed. Every writer has his own voice to imprint on a series, to put his own mark on it; if the writing were just a carbon-copy of Murphy and Sapir, the series would quickly go flat and stale. Somheil's Destroyer does seem, to me, a bit more gritty--dare I say dark?--than previous incarnations, but I, for one, find it refreshing.

This book is a great read. I only have three of this series,#71,#135,and this one.The dynamics between Remo and Chiun are much the same in all three,with some slight evolutions that are normal in every relationship.But first and foremost this is just a fun book.