This article is meant to be a book review, so let me get to a hearty recommendation of this read. An accessory to the action figure combined some of Armes’ home and office scenes. from Armes’ autobiographyĪrmes is known, among these many other things, for an elaborate home compound including a lake, zoo, gymnasium, helipad, and basement shooting range (with programmable moving targets – in the 70s!). Armes really does have some options for attachments, including high quality prosthetics for ‘dress’ use, and one of the hook models has a single shot pistol for the ultimate quick draw. The hooks actually confer some advantages in certain situations, like in a first fight or to break out a window. He became adept at using surgically articulated hooks, from doing up shirt buttons to mastering all manner of firearms. Armes lost both hands to a recreational explosives accident as a young teen. The action figure came with a case which had multiple interchangeable ‘hand’ attachments. How many private eyes have their own action figure? I don’t remember knowing about him, but I probably did. He built up his own legend by taking on and quickly cracking tough cases with a unique guaranteed-results policy. I recently came upon a Narratively article that caught me up on the now 89 year old Investigator. Not one to walk away crushed, Armes is focusing his attention on his company, The Investigators, which continues to thrive.I’ve been asking anyone I know, beyond a certain age, if they remember this real character. This spring, after promoting himself on local talk radio with a routine that sounded more like superficial rambling than political commentary, Armes lost his latest bid to win back a city council seat. He served two terms on the city council, from 1989 to 1993, where his statements were occasionally challenged with a certain amount of exasperation. Now 62 years old, he is a visible figure around El Paso, where he still lives. Cartwright interviewed Armes at his El Paso mansion and concluded that Armes had fabricated many-if not all-of his claims. 22 magnum had been wired to his biceps and could be fired only by his brain. Armes for Real?” Armes was best known to the average Joe or Jane as “the dude with the hand-hooks who can do karate.” He bragged that he was a private investigator who employed more than two thousand agents, that he held psychology and criminology degrees from New York University, and that a trigger for a.

Back in January 1976 when Gary Cartwright wrote “Is Jay J.

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