Created, the Destroyer by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir (1971). ***. The first book of the Remo Williams story. I don’t even remember getting this book and it wasn’t until I got into the actual story that I had any idea what it was (the prologue gave no clue). Being a fan of the Remo Williams movie, I jumped into it eagerly. The story is very different from that of the movie; the stakes of the plot seem lower, for one thing. Remo’s recruitment into the clandestine government agency is handled somewhat differently, in that he’s given at least the semblance of a choice (hmm, join a government agency, or die in the electric chair for a crime he didn’t commit? Decisions, decisions . . .) Book-Remo is very much an action-man product of his times: racist, sexist, probably would have been homophobic if the opportunity had arisen. (Thankfully, movie-Remo was a bit more enlightened.) The story moves along quickly for the most part – sometimes ridiculously so – and the plot is fairly simplistic, though interesting enough. I liked it enough to give it three stars, but not enough to read a sequel, let alone the well-over-100 sequels in the series.