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The San Diego branch of the Secret Service is receiving some absolutely perfect counterfeit U.S. currency in the mail, and getting nervous. A flood of these bogus bucks could cripple the economy. But plans for using the funny money are more devious than that--and its all the work of an utterly gorgeous impossible brilliant female scientist and her not-quite-human associate, Mr. Gordons. She's holding the world's monetary system as ransom for a NASA space-age computer program so advanced its show more use on earth is limited. In space? That's another matter--a matter for Remo Williams, the Destroyer, to settle before the future of America--and the world--becomes the property of a beautiful, diabolical creature and her unstoppable sidekick! show less

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Warren Murphy was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on September 13, 1933. Before becoming an author, worked in journalism and politics. In 1971, he started the Destroyer series with Richard Sapir. His other novels include Jericho Day, The Red Moon, The Ceiling of Hell, The Sure Thing, and Honor Among Thieves. He has received various awards show more including the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for The Grandmaster and Pigs Get Fat, and a Special Award for Trace. He has also received the Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus Award for The Ceiling of Hell and Another Day, Another Dollar. He also wrote the screenplays for the movies Lethal Weapon 2 and The Eiger Sanction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Author Richard Sapir was born in 1936. He graduated from Columbia University. Before creating The Destroyer series with Warren Murphy, he worked as a reporter, editor, and in public relations. He also wrote five novels in which one, The Body, was made into a movie in 2001. He died of a heart attack in 1987. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Canonical title
Funny money
Original publication date
1975
People/Characters
Chiun (Master of Sinanju); Remo Williams; Mr. Gordons; Harold W. Smith; James Castellano; Francis Forsythe
Important places
San Diego, California, USA; California, USA; New York, USA; New York, New York, USA
First words
On the last day that his arms were still attached to his shoulders and his spinal vertebrae still formed an unbroken, flexible column, James Castellano took down his .38 police special from the top shelf of his foyer closet.
Quotations
When you do not deal in gold, it is all counterfeit.
Original language
English

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Fiction and Literature, Suspense & Thriller
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
LCC
PS3569 .A59 .D47Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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