Jay Armes isn 't exaggerating when he says he can do more without hands than a lot of people who have them. 'While they're looking in the rear view mirror to see if anyone's behind them,' he laughs, 'I'm right in front of them watching their every move.' Armes reports the cost of that custom feature at $2,000-and adds that he has a '$100,000 'surprise' in my left hook.' All of his eleven cars, including the Rolls, are equipped with television and video-tape gear that enable Armes to turn the tables in the shadowing game. 22 magnum pistol imbedded in his right prosthesis and fired by flexing the muscles of his arm. When one of his thirteen would-be assassins shot him in the chest at close range, Armes returned fire with a secret weapon- a. Some of Armes' devices make the fictional equipment of James Bond seem like child's play.

Armes is a legend, and that legend and the larger-than-life man behind it comes vividly alive in the spell-binding account of his most intriguing cases and the methods- always uniquely his own -that he uses to solve them. One more excerpt from a site selling his autobiography: How would you guys stat this guy out and what system do you feel would best capture the investigative adventures of the 'master of the deadliest karate chop'? He's a real guy but he seems like his just leapt off the pages of an RPG sourcebook or maybe a comic. He and his wife live on a 14 acre compound with a pet tiger and cheetah. Armes is the most famous, most sought after investigator in the world.' He can reach into fire, smash through doors, fire bullets with unerring accuracy, cut through metal, fly utilizing a jet pack, scuba dive, pilot a jet - and he is the master of the deadliest karate chop. His prosthetic arms have been described in his press release: 'Amazingly, Jay can now do more with the fantastic steel claws that have replaced his hands than people with their own hands can do. The excerpts from the wiki article that really grab be by the gamer are these two gems: Some additional info on him from Thrilling Detective site. He's had some pretty high profile cases in his career including rescuing Marlon Brando's son from kidnappers. Armes and he is a private investigator from El Paso that happens to have prosthetic hooks for hands.

I had an action figure based on a real private investigator who seems like an honest-to-goodness, real-life super/pulp hero. I was in another thread discussing some non-TRO stuff when I remembered an odd little tidbit from my childhood.

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