Richard Murphy: 210 books

Airline passengers are dying—strangled, with yellow scarves—and no one’s sure who’s responsible, or why it’s happening. CURE takes interest when it becomes apparent that the murders are exacting a toll on the economy, destroying the travel industry. It seems like an easy job for Remo and...

Drug-dealing appears to be down in three major American cities, but it’s really just a statistical oddity: someone’s got teenagers doing the dealing, and juvenile charges don’t appear in the crime stats. The trail leads Remo and Chiun to Detroit, where they discover that the newest engine of...

An Electro-Magnetic rail is buried somewhere in the desert, launching hundred ton locomotives. They are falling from the sky and terror is raining down across the country. The Lobynian Colonel Intifada is the mastermind but Smitty is preoccupied with a new computer system--and its accuracy is never...

Norbert Peasewell is one of the best minds of his generation. A pacifist, though it's his own blood, he wouldn’t stop a mosquito from making a meal of his arm. An idealist, though he has a PhD in the philosophy of advanced computer science, he believes that computers, corporations, and governments...

"Abraxas!" The word is on everyone's lips, but no one's quite sure why. It seems to promise something, though... a new golden age in which nationalism is forgotten and the world operates selflessly, for the prosperity of all. Can it be a coincidence that many of the top minds on the planet...

Bored billionaires can be dangerous. The mundane checks and balances that limit ordinary people’s actions don’t apply to them, and the unthinkable is an everyday possibility. What if one were to create a game in which unsuspecting participants earned points for random actions? Someone might be...

Why wait for accidents to happen, when, with a little planning, you can create your own tragic accident, sue for millions…and profit! Whether the victim is a single person on a “faulty” moped or ten thousand workers in a doomed factory town, the law firm of Palmer, Rizutto & Schwartz will...

Whatever it is you think you know, Vassily Rabinowitz can change your mind. Want to quit smoking? He can convince you in a heartbeat. Want to give him your life savings? You will. Want to fight your protégé to the death? If you’re convinced he’s your worst enemy in disguise, you’ll...

On every continent, all around the world, simmering conflicts are coming to the boil. One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist, but no matter their philosophy, these suddenly impassioned patriots all seem to have one ally in common: the mysterious Mr. Arieson. The man is everywhere...

When an Iraiti ambassador disappears in the US, dictator Maddas Hinsein wants revenge. CURE  sends Remo into danger as he falls under the spell of the goddess Kali, the Devourer of Life. Without Chiun, Remo may be lost and if he is, then so is the world.

An ancient cult of blood drinkers has surfaced. Once bitten, the victim becomes a Gyonshi, trapped and poisoned. Chiun and Remo are lured into a battle with dark forces and a calling greater than the Final Death – the extinction of Sinanju. While on a mission from CURE, they must be separated to be conquered. Working alone, will they be able save each other?

There’s a hit man targeting the heads of Detroit’s automakers, and his name is Remo Williams. Not the orphaned Remo Williams, erstwhile cop who mastered the martial art of Sinanju in service to CURE. This other Remo Williams is about twenty years older. Strange that he’s also from New Jersey,...

Remo is on death row and he’s next on the list. His memory is foggy and details don’t match up.  Smitty is out of commission and the very foundation of CURE is at risk. Chiun needs to intervene with the interim director. An anthropoligist is determined to find a man able to perform impossible...

Chiun must return to Moo, a civilization 5,000 years old where the ancient throne is in mortal danger. Octopus people are threatening the king, his subjects are in revolt, the treasury is loaded with coins, and the Princess wants Remo for her very own. A New Age imposter, impersonating Roy Orbison,...