Mugger Blood

4.0 / 10 average from 1 rated reviews

A LITTLE OLD LADY ... She started the whole damn thing. By dying. Like many other elderly people trying to exist on meager allowances in old neighborhoods that have turned into ghettos, she was the victim of a mugging. Certainly nothing new in the daily events of a run-down, doped-up slum. That her brutal beating caused her death added but little significance to the crime statistics that week. Just another old lady mugged. Happens all the time. Except that this time Remo Williams was in a terrible mood when he read the news of her death. Which meant that he and Chiun were on their way to New York to wipe out a few murderous muggers. Very simple. Very noble. Civilization, Truth, and Justice take a break while two men go to work in the streets of New York. But, like most adventures of the Destroyer, complications set in ... You wouldn't believe the complications ... until now, in this, the thirtieth episode of the master assassins of Sinanju.

Reviews (1)

Dorian McCann 4/10 February 1, 2002

I was very dissapointed by this one. Although it's almost 30 years old the racist terms bother me. I understand that this was written as a anti-racist book, in other words using the terms and sterotypes and turning them inside out...but still it stings a bit and really ruins the book in my opinion. An example is locking a black youth in the bathroom and having him behave much like a dog would is just unacceptable. The black characters speak with a street slang and are shown to have the IQ of a three year old. Once again, the end of the book reverses this and some of the charaters are redeemed, but it's a slow journy there and the actual storyline gets lost within the jumbles of dialogue that is honestly very hard to read. I understand the author's intent here, I just think that after three decades, this book has not aged well at all.