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The Destroyers was a 1980 novel written by A. W. Miller, concerning a team of six disgruntled law enforcement officers who decide to end the heroin trade by destroying it at the source.
Synopsis[]
Inspector Buddy Wells had waged war on drug dealers in San Francisco for years, with little success. Then he was offered a chance to take the battle to the source. He recruited a small army of veteran street cops, and- with unlimited funds and no legal constraints- they headed for a sleepy Mexican village in the foothills of the Sierra Madre.
There, where poppy fields and processing labs abounded, a handful of families controlled the profitable heroin trade. Wells and his men were out to destroy them- and to end, once and for all, the flow of the deadly drug into the United States!
Characters[]
- Inspector Buddy Wells
- Michael Conover
- Paul Brotherton
- Donald Bottoms
- Bill Bremer
Reception[]
Temple of Schlock wrote of the novel, "If there were any copy editors employed by Leisure Books in 1980, it’s safe to say none of them showed up for work the week The Destroyers passed through; I don't think I've seen so many transposed letters, misspellings and other typos together in one mass market paperback in my life. Miller’s a competent hack who never strays from cliché... or wastes too much brain power on storytelling, to the point where one incredibly lazy bit of plotting produces a very obvious threat to the entire mission that wouldn’t go unnoticed by one halfway intelligent cop, let alone six."[1]
References[]
- ↑ The Destroyers - 2 December 2008 - Temple of Schlock - Retrieved 30 June 2021