A review by gengelcox
Mafia Fix by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

adventurous fast-paced

1.0

Just as Murphy and Sapir discover the secret to the Destroyer series in the third book, they crash and burn in the fourth. Yes, Chiun is around this time, but not nearly enough. What’s worse, the authors likely bowed to pressure from their publisher who had to remind them that men’s action adventure pulp novels needed to contain a fair amount of sex. Murphy & Sapir, as was their wont, took that to the extreme. It’s not that they went pornographic, just the amount and the, umn, athleticism of it all.

The plot centers around a huge heroin shipment into the US by the mafia in order to crash the drug market and drive out all those little dealers who kept popping up, basically to then corner the market. Some of the elements are surprising, such as putting the four container trucks into cold storage. But mostly it’s just Remo killing his way through the usual suspects until he finds the mastermind behind it all, and if you understand the way this series works, it’s pretty obvious who that person is.

Given that they wrote these books in a month or two, at least in the few years, a few clunkers should be expected. Definitely skippable, except for the insane like me.