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David Morrell - Rambo 1 - First Blood Introduction In the summer of 1968, I was 25, a graduate student at Penn State University. Specializing in American literature, I'd finished my M.A. thesis on Ernest Hemingway and was starting my doctoral dissertation on John Earth. But in my heart, what I wanted to be was a novelist.
First Blood is a 1972 American action - thriller novel by David Morrell about a troubled homeless Vietnam War veteran, known only by his last name of Rambo, who wages a brutal one-man war against local and state police in Kentucky.
David Morrell. Grand Central Publishing, 2000 - Fiction - 320 pages. First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang from the...
- David Morrell
- Grand Central Publishing, 2000
- reprint
RAMBO GENESIS. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Mor- rell came to America to study literature at Penn State in 1966 near the height of the Vietnam War, and the student unrest and riots that, as Morrell recalls, seemed to have the nation on the brink of a civil war.
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Rambo went on to become one of the five most identifiable thriller characters of the twentieth century, with Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, James Bond, and Harry Potter. In what's been called "the father of modern action novels," a small version of the Vietnam War breaks out in backwoods America.
Based loosely on David Morrell's 1972 novel of the same name, it was the first of the four-film and ongoing Rambo series. Unlike the following sequels which were war adventure films set in foreign countries, First Blood was a post-Vietnam War psychological thriller set in the United States.
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Jan 1, 2001 · John Rambo wasn't just a Vietnam Vet, tramping through America, minding his own business and coping with his PTSD. John Rambo was what the US military had trained him to be: an efficient killer who enjoys his work and never backs down once he's engaged with the enemy.