The Temple Dogs

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After a bride and groom are gunned down by the Mafia, the bride's brother goes to Japan to learn to be a fearless warrior, so he can come back for revenge. Lines such as "you had you your chance to go home, little boy" are straight out of any bad Hollywood gangster script. The interplay between the two main characters was extremely witty and they had a lot of good martial arts action. Cochran and Murphy delve into the criminal underworld not only in the United States, but Japan as well. With Molly Cochran, he completed two books of a planned trilogy revolving around the character The Grandmaster, The Grandmaster (1984) and High Priest (1989).

The plot revolves around the killing of a newlywed couple by the heir to a Mafia family, who is humiliated by being thrown out of the hotel where the wedding reception is being held. Bell για εμάς που η νεότητά μας εκτός από "το Ζεν και την τέχνη της συντήρησης της μοτοσυκλέτας", τον "Κρατισμό και αναρχία" και άλλα τέτοια φιλοσοφικο-αναρχικο-αριστερά, είχε την απαραίτητη δράση. The brother does his best to become a part of them but meets with an obstacle in the young man who is to take over the headman's spot. Why the Yakuza would spend time, energy, and effort training a rich American boy to be a warrior confounds me and the story never really gives me a good reason. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.

A double murder is commited on a bride's wedding day and her brother looks for retribution, by traveling to Tokyo and attaining a level of martial arts training. The authors ( High Priest ) display a tenuous understanding of Japanese culture, and their stereotypical portrayal of Italian mobsters makes this novel a study in banality. I'm not familiar with Japanese culture, but it seemed to me that the portrayals here were overly stereotypical. Although his motivation wasn't exactly pristine (it being vengeance), but the thing is, he knew exactly what he was getting into when he started his vendetta. Exploring the infamous Yakuza, this novel had the potential to be a fascinating comparison between the Asian and Western mafia within the framework of the larger thriller story.

In the round, I enjoyed The Temple Dogs which had family connections and contrasts as a running theme that was interwoven into the narrative.Murphy also shares writing credits with Cochran on The Forever King and several novels under the name Dev Stryker.