Killer Ratings

by James Mullaney and Warren Murphy

Book Overview

Don't Touch That Dial! In the cutthroat world of evening news, where "if it bleeds it leads" is the industry's lifeblood, the dead-last BCN network is hemorrhaging viewers. On the chopping block is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765360217
• ISBN13: 9780765360212
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

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One of the best Destroyer stories in quite some time. Stop reading the reviews and order your copy now! This may be the last new Destroyer novel for awhile, so don't miss it.

Killer Ratings is one of the best books in the long running Destroyer series

Killer Ratings is one of the best books in the long running Destroyer series. Die hard fans, who have been reading about Remo, Chiun and Dr. Smith since the early 1970's have a real reason to pick up a Destroyer book again. Warren Murphy and Jim Mullaney are the perfect team to bring Remo, Chiun, Dr. Smith and Mark back to life in the New Destroyer, as they did when they were a team in the late 1990's and early 2000's. The book is well crafted and great reading for adventure novel fans. The new readers are introduced to the interaction between Remo and Master Chiun that made long time readers love them. You have to great to have a series that has endured for more than 35 years. And Killer Ratings is one more reason that it will last many, many more years. The very last page of the book says, "The New Destroyer never dies". And with the books like Killer Ratings, written by Warren Murphy and Jim Mullaney, truer words were never written.

"Killer Ratings" has a killer impact

We're just four books into Remo Williams' latest publishing incarnation, and already writers Warren Murphy and James Mullaney are demonstrating that they intend to not only meet the high standards set by Remo's earlier adventures, but also to surpass those standards. All the trademark Destroyer reference points are here - witty satire, great action sequences, and the always entertaining interaction between Remo and Master Chiun. In this book, the target of Remo's attention (and of the writers' keen eyes for satire) is a little less important than the radical Islamists and illegal immigrants of earlier books, but is no less entertaining, as the Destroyer is drawn into a plot surrounding a certain highly paid (and ratings-challenged) television anchor who suddenly begins finding herself in the midst of all sorts of profile-boosting crises. I won't give away too much, but let's just say that the fine folks who staged truck explosions and crowed about faked documents relating to a certain president's military service will find themselves a bit uncomfortable. This is the fourth straight winner from the Murphy/Mullaney team, and I, for one, look forward to many, many more in the future. The Destroyer is back, and he's clearly in the right hands.