Nick Fury Agent Of Shield Empyre: Amazon.ca: Will Murray: Books

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World War II veteran Colonel Nick Fury is the head of S.H.I.E.L.D.-the UN's crack anti-terrorist organization. When a series of planes mysteriously crash, suspicion initially points to the involvement of Hydra terrorists. But Fury soon learns that the true villain is someone who wants nothing less than world destruction. Now Fury must work with his greatest enemies in order to halt the deadly threat.

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Ex-WWII vet and current UN anti-terrorist fighter Colonel Nick Fury uncovers a plot by the nation Quorak to destroy the planet. Original.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Simply Scary Considering the Timing, April 8 2004

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C. Romeo "From Right Field" (Knoxville, TN, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nick Fury Agent Of Shield Empyre (Paperback)

I read this book in August of 2001. I finished reading it just two weeks before the terrorists hit New York and Washington, D.C. The fact that someone wrote a book talking about terrorists using jet airliners as suicide bombers scared me witless. Even scarier is that this was out for a year before that.

As far as being a good read in and of itself, it is simply escapist literature. At the time I finished it, it was plain fun. Now, I'm not so sure.

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4.0 out of 5 stars S.H.I.E.L.D featuring Col. Nick Fury, Aug 10 2001

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"tvkinc" (Hampton, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nick Fury Agent Of Shield Empyre (Paperback)

Only in recent years have I gotten back into the Marvel novels, and even back then I was reading comic books (late 70's & early 80's) I was selective on which ones I've read. So, I really don't remember reading about Nick Fury. So these novels has introduced me to Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. The storyline was highly enjoyable and the cast of characters that were easy to understand and were likeable. I truely enjoyed Will Murray's writing style and sense of humor in which he intregated into the book was excellent. Highly recommend this book to all the fans of Col Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good ol' Nick Fury, though not a whole lot of him., Jun 16 2001

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Brendan O'Brien (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nick Fury Agent Of Shield Empyre (Paperback)

I recently uncovered a taped copy of Fox's Tuesday Night Movie, Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD (1996) starring David Hasselhof as Colonel Nicholas J. Fury, and that started an obession about all the SHIELD characters. After doing a little research on the web I went back to the comic book shop and purchased dozens of old (and expensive) copies of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandoes, a war mag featuring Saint Nick before he lost an eye (one of the comics actually explained how it happened). I then went out looking for copies of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD comic books and found this novel, EMPYRE. I immediatly grabbed and it and bought it. The cover was good, showing Nick and Contessa and Dum Dum Dugan, a LMD (Life Model Decoy) and the Helicarrier and Hydra Viper (played by Sandra Hess in the TV movie with a bad German accent). The novel itself was not like the cover. The story revolves around a plot by some Middle Eastern madman planning to bomb major world cities (including some right here in the good ol' US of A) using passenger jets rigged with Inferno 16 or some such. Nick Fury and his strong man sidekick Timothy Aloysius "Dum Dum" Dugan enlist the help of SHIELD's para-psych devision's head Starla Spacek to predict the whereabout of the these planes using remote viewing (check out the novel PSYCHIC WARRIOR by David Morehouse). Now the author of this novel is a known psychic and I think he tries too hard to intregrate his comic book novel writing (Doc Savage and the Destroyer) with his mind-reading job. But the main character, Starla Spacek, is very well written throughout the novel. It also helps that Starla Spacek resembles the character Kate Neville in the TV movie. If you want a straight Nick Fury story stay with the comics but if you want a story has Nick Fury in it but does not revolve around him, EMPYRE is the best bet. Also check out Christopher Golden's novel CODENAME WOLVERINE for a very good Nick Fury and SHIELD appearence.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a lot of fun, if you're Fury's type of reader
For those who don't know, Nick Fury was a comic book character known to many of us thirtysomethings as Sgt. Read more

Published on Sep 12 2000 by J. K. Kelley

3.0 out of 5 stars This is Nick Fury
Give Will Murray credit, he delivers the real goods. When he does the Destroyer or Doc Savage, he delivers the real character. Read more

Published on Sep 7 2000 by David K. Taggart