Big Apple Takedown (WWE) [Mass Market Paperback]

Rudy Josephs (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 27, 2006 | Series: WWE

December 2001: Vince McMahon steps out of a snowy night into a diner in upstate New York for a meeting with old friend Phil Thomson, now a highly placed government official. Thomson has a strange proposition: creating a new covert black-ops group using the Superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment. The WWE's talented men and women are perfect. Highly skilled athletes with the ideal cover, they travel all across the country and the globe; no one would find it unusual to find them in a town one day and gone the next. The government would train and support the wrestlers in every way possible except one: no one must know the truth. March 2006: The Superstars have been handed their latest assignment - take down a commercial-grade methyl-amphetamine plant that is bankrolling terrorist activities in Europe. Their mission seems simple and straightforward, until a member of their team is taken prisoner. Now all that they've worked so hard for is in jeopardy, and one of their own might be killed...

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Robert Caprio is the author of the WWE road-trip anthology Are We There Yet?. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: World Wrestling Entertainment (June 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416510893
• ISBN-13: 978-1416510895
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,925,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Canon worthy, July 9, 2006

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MikeSC "MikeSC" (South Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Apple Takedown (WWE) (Mass Market Paperback)

In my life as an English Professor, I have had the joy of reading any of a lare selection of classic books, brilliant treatises on the human condition, and some of the most brilliantly revolutionary prose that hallmarked the great movements in human history. I feel, though, that my faith in literature has been increased to a level I truly did not feel possible after reading this book.

It is truly rare when a book changes your life in a fundamental way. For some, the Bible was their path to a new and better life. Others feel that Paine's Common Sense is a truly great piece of political propaganda that tries to raise humanity to a higher level. Others, on the other hand, are partial to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.

I say "A pox on ALL of these houses".

Like a very special episode of "Walker, Texas Ranger", WWE's "Big Apple Takedown" manages to simultaneously make one weep at the emotionally taut imagery, laugh at the rapier-sharp wit, and contemplate the deep, inner discussions of the soul that are the hallmark of sweaty guys with questionable drug habits.

And, honestly, the book is a little infuriating. Why IS the government wasting its money paying for a military with many nuclear missiles when ALL that is needed to save the world from evil and chaos are the occasional errant chair shot, a knee to the groinal region, followed by an overly elaborate finishing sequence?

The decision to use WWE superstars --- "wrestlers" does not remotely do legends like HHH justice, let's be frank --- to sniff out a drug cartel is the kind of inspired genius that makes lesser authors like Poe weep in their beer. You didn't see George Orwell use imagery as subtle as a glistening body of pure, pent-up, moderately eroticized squashing drug kingpins in 1984, did you?

I tell you, next to this book, Madame Bovary has as much plot as a 3rd grader's book of Mad Libs.

I, personally, enjoyed the discrete reference to another classic of American literature --- "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", with a plot that, bluntly, ripped off this book's plot in the most diabolical and sinical of manners.

Kudos to you, WWE. You have clearly demonstrated that the dramatic masterpiece that is the average episode of RAW is not an accident. This is the book that makes one appreciate the subtlety of a good fart joke or an unexpected "puppies" reference. I can only hope they keep Mr. Josephs on the payroll to produce storyline that can even approach this level of inspiration.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book IS actually good!, April 11, 2007

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Essa Rios "Default Fan" (Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Apple Takedown (WWE) (Mass Market Paperback)

Its not only readable but funny at the thought the wrestlers become crime fighting geniuses! Mr McMahons amazing touch is all over this!!! a definite buy for fans and critics alike!

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Read, June 21, 2011

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This review is from: Big Apple Takedown (WWE) (Mass Market Paperback)

Only giving it 4 stars because I felt the end of the book was rushed and it felt to short. I would have enjoyed to read more. But this book is really good and wroth reading for any WWE/Westling fan. I'm surprise this book hasn't turn into a movie!! I hope WWE makes another book like this and makes this into a series. Easy read and 100 percent entertaining book!