Remo - Unarmed and Dangerous; by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir.

Superlatives are getting common in my reviews, but then often it is those books that deserve it that one is likely to remember, without having made a list or a catalogue for one's own reference, ofter decades of reading them.

This book is about a normal man in US going through abnormal circumstances and being given up for dead, and coming back to another life, quite different from what he is used to, and learning, gaining a whole new life in the process. One learns in terms of mind and attitude along with him, while he is learning with all his facilities.

In that it is far better to read it first and see the film it was written from later, since action in the film or the book is the fruit of the tree of consciousness (with its roots in a whole culture) that is shown here in all it growth with luxurious detail, though the details of the roots - the culture - are sparse and hidden. As roots mostly are.