High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Destroyer is a paperback series of novels created by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir about a U.S. government operative named Remo Williams. The first novel was published in 1971, although the manuscript was completed on June 25, 1963. Along with Don Pendleton`s The Executioner series, The Destroyer is one of the original and longest lasting men`s adventure series. It was adapted into the 1985 feature film, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, starring Fred Ward as Williams.