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America's beautiful people are playing follow-the-leader with their latest guru, diet doctor Felix Foxx. As Foxx's disciples are dropping pounds, however, U.S. military leaders are dropping like flies. Coincidence? Maybe. But CURE's been counting casualties, and Remo and Chiun are dispatched to muscle in and settle the score. They arrive too late at Foxx's fat farm - a fool's paradise where the wealthy go to buy time. And where, it appears, the smart set have been losing a lot more than cellulite...Our heroes have stumbled onto an insidious plot - one that's eating away at the very core of Western civilization. And even racing against time, they've got a slim chance of stopping it...
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It's a news wrinkle in A haberdashery clerk suddenly leaves his home in Ohio, flies to Italy, and kills a Red terrorist. Everyone figures the guy's just coming apart at the seams - until it happens again . . . and again . . .A pattern's emerging, and the international powers are getting hot under the collar. Remo and Chiun are investigating before the U.S. is caught with its pants down. But then Harold W. Smith vanishes, along with the best brains in the world, and all at once CURE's less than a memory . . .Remo and Chiun follow the thread of evidence to a tropical island and a man with a message - a man with trouble up his sleeve. And, they find it's just a matter of time before he takes the entire world to the cleaner's . . .
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A string of clues, written in an ancient language, points the way to legendary mountain of gold. It's a treasure vast enough to undermine the world's economy, and a mad South American generalissimo will stop at nothing to get it. The only person who can decipher the clues, Dr. Terri Pomfret, is squarely in his crosshairs—until CURE intervenes. Remo and Chiun will have to protect the lissome professor while they follow the trail from one continent to the next, fending off assaults from a rival House that has forgotten its centuries-old treaty with Sinanju. Gold can make fools of most men, but not the Destroyer.
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Lasers in the jungle…disappearing archaeologists…languages so ancient that they’re unknown even to the scrolls of Sinanju. Remo and Chiun are in Central America, looking for a cache of futuristic weaponry that the CIA is very interested in, but they’re about to stumble across a secret that’s been buried for 5,000 years. A secret with the potential to alter the course of history.