- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (22 Aug 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099443104
- ISBN-13: 978-0099443100
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 245,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you have ever seen the film 'Rambo - First Blood' then you will know that Rambo lives and actually surrenders himself, however is you have ever read the book 'First Blood' (which was written ten years before the film was made) then you will know that in it Rambo dies after a huge manhunt. I don't know about you but i much prefer the one where he lives.
Therefore to write a second book, starting off from where the last book finished would be sort of a hard task for obvious reasons, and so thats why David Morrell started this book, the second installment, from where the first film finished off and pretended that he in fact never died. (I bet he kicked himself every day for killing off Rambo in the first book). It's quite confusing i know.
We meet up with our hero Rambo in a prision quarry where Trautman, his old trainer, comes to free him on the condition that he will do a mission for him, which involves going back to Vietnam; more specifically back to the camp where he was tortured for six months. Once there he must take pictures of American prisioners of war as proof they are there, and then American will send in the Delta Force to get them out. Rambo reluctantly accepts the mission and is sent in with a few now ancient guns, his trusty knife, and a mow and arrow. However, a bad parachute landing into Vietnam causes him to lose both his camera and radio and has no way of contacting his base, or taking back proof. He decides to take them back the ultimate proof and rescue one of the POW's himself. This spells trouble and the man in charge (not Trautman), abandons the mission, leaving Rambo deep in the jungles of Vietnam with an American POW, and a few measly weopons while the whole camp proceed to attack him.
Rambo is captured and taked back to the prision camp and as he was years before, he is tortured and beaten. However with the help of a female friend Rambo manages to escape and after another huge manhunt, this time involving not only the Vietnamese army but also several Russian soldiers with much more firepower than the police force who were after him last time, he gets back to America and goes after Murdock, the man who left him for dead.
Unfortunately i have never actually seen the second Rambo film so i don't know how close the storyline is to it, but it should be pretty close as it was based on the screenplay of Sylvester Stallone and James Cameron.
The thing that i found in reading the first book was that you get to kno much more about Rambo himself, and his actual emotions that he feels at different times, and you get that exactly the same in this book.
Overall this second book installment of the Rambo series is really really supurb and i guarentee that any fans of Rambo will love this to bits. Also if you have read 'First Blood' and liked it then i'm sure you will also love reading this book. I can't understand why it has gone out of print because its really good, but even if it has, you can still buy it second hand and i highly recommend this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After reading First Blood, I was desperate to read the two novelisations David Morrell did for the film sequels. It took me a while because they have been long out of print and are very hard to find in great condition, but I eventually found them and started reading them immediate. I must say that the novelised version of Rambo First Blood Part 2 is vastly superior to the film ( which had too much emphasis on action rather drama and storyline). David Morrell takes the screenplay of the film and gives it flavouring and substance, he adds in the characterisations and the emotions felt by Rambo and other characters, which is what made the first novel so great to read. the action is also a high point and is far more horrific and intense than the first novel, also the body count is high and close to uncountable, if you want intense, none stop action then this is the right novel for you. The story was greatly improved by David Morrell , who added in a lot of his own stuff ( for example, Rambo comes face to face with the commanding soldier who tortured him when he was a POW in vietnam). The political content of the novel accurately reflects the bitterness of the Vietnam war, its after effects on America and the grief and pain it caused the veterans.
overall this is as good as First Blood, although there was one small problem ( WARNING spoilers coming). In the first novel Rambo died when he was shot in the back of the head by his mentor Colonel Trautman with a shotgun. As you can imagine this posed a problem when writing this one, and althogh it was difficult, I wish David Morrell could have come up with a convincing explanation ( there wasn't one given, he just lived and was put in prison) for why he is alive in this one.
a great read and well worth the buy.
overall this is as good as First Blood, although there was one small problem ( WARNING spoilers coming). In the first novel Rambo died when he was shot in the back of the head by his mentor Colonel Trautman with a shotgun. As you can imagine this posed a problem when writing this one, and althogh it was difficult, I wish David Morrell could have come up with a convincing explanation ( there wasn't one given, he just lived and was put in prison) for why he is alive in this one.
a great read and well worth the buy.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Not Morrell's best
1 April 2000
Format:Paperback
Rambo:First Blood II was based on the screenplay by Slyvester Stallone and James Cameron. So David Morrell didn't have that much to work with. The plot is predictable. The CIA believes that they have located American POW's alive in Vietnam and dispatches Rambo to locate and bring back intelligance so the a team can be sent in. This was a very familar plot in the 1980's, in books, movies and even tv shows. The best of them is Mission:MIA by JC Pollack. This is a distant second. Of course, Rambo can't complete his mission and winds up rescuing the POW's by himself. Of course the CIA can't be trusted and of course he will take on most of the North Vietnamese Army single handedly. Even with all those flaws, Morrell's rapid fire action sequences and purposefully choppy writing style draw the reader in. It's the lesser of his works, lacking the intensity of his horror and the complexity of his espionage novels. This is an action addict's version of a cheesy romance novel- a guilty pleasure you hate to admit to.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
even though rambo died in the first book.....
18 Mar 2006
Format:Paperback
even though rambo died in the first book, he lived in the movie, leaving it open for sequals. david morrell wrote a follow up book in an attempt to make the series his again, and make it the way he wanted it. although if it went the way he wanted it, rambo would be dead and there would be no crappy sequals. but thats what happens when you sell a masterpeice like 'first blood' to hollywood....
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
First Blood Part II - The Adventure Continues
7 Jun 2002
Format:Paperback
The most dangerous man in the world is back in this novel (and Movie) and this time it's for his country! Co-written by David Morrell (FIRST BLOOD), he intended for Rambo to die in the first book, but Sylvester Stallone liked the character so much that he and James Cameron brought Rambo back for a sequel.
John Rambo is in a Kentucky prison for the bloody one-man war against small town Sherif Teasle. Colonel Trautman offers Rambo's signed release if he agrees to take on what would be a suicide mission for most men. His first objective--penetrate the remembered jungles of Hell (Vietnam), and find the missing Americans who are still being tortured there. His second objective--DON'T rescue them. Only bring back photos. DON'T engage the enemy. DON'T get revenge. For Rambo, the first part is tough. The second, impossible.
But Rambo does agree to the conditions. He goes to Vietnam only to be abandoned by his only means of getting out of Vietnam, who have left on the orders of the Commanding officer Murdock to leave him there to be killed.
But remember, this is Rambo. A killing machine trained by the best to survive in the worst conditions. He decides that if Murdock will back out of his side of the deal, he's going to do the same. Forget taking pictures of the P.O.W. camps. Rambo's going to become a one-man army once again, and is going in to save them....and then he's going after Murdock for abandoning him.
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