Zvuk First Blood

Oct 22, 1982  When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo employs heavy-handed guerilla tactics to shake the cops off his tail.

Contents • • • • • • • Plot [ ] Rambo (no first name in the novel), a, is hitchhiking in and is picked up by Police Chief Wilfred Teasle and dropped off at the city limits. When Rambo repeatedly returns, Teasle finally arrests him and drives him to the station. He is charged with and resisting arrest and is sentenced to 35 days in jail. Being trapped inside the cold, wet, small cells gives Rambo a to his days as a, and he fights off the police as they attempt to cut his hair and shave him, beating one officer and slashing another with the straight razor.

He flees, steals a motorcycle, and hides in the nearby mountains. He becomes the focus of a manhunt that results in the deaths of many police officers, civilians,. In a climactic ending in the town where his conflict with Teasle began, Rambo is finally hunted down by special forces captain, Sam Trautman, and Teasle. Using his local knowledge, Teasle manages to surprise Rambo and shoots him in the chest, but is himself wounded in the stomach by a return shot.

He then tries to pursue Rambo as he makes a final attempt to escape back out of the town. Both men are essentially dying by this point, but are driven by pride and a desire to justify their actions. Rambo, having found a spot he feels comfortable in, prepares to commit suicide by detonating a stick of against his body; however, he then sees Teasle following his trail and decides that it would be more honorable to continue fighting and be killed by Teasle's return fire. Rambo fires at Teasle and, to his surprise and disappointment, hits him. For a moment he reflects on how he had missed his chance of a decent death, because he is now too weak to light the fuse to detonate the dynamite, but then suddenly feels the explosion he had expected—but in the head, not the stomach where the dynamite was placed. Rambo dies satisfied that he has come to a fitting end. Trautman returns to the dying Teasle and tells him that he has killed Rambo with his shotgun.

Teasle relaxes, experiences a moment of affection for Rambo, and then dies succumbing to his wounds. Development [ ] Morrell stated he was inspired to write the novel by hearing about the experiences of his students who had fought in Vietnam.

The author also said 'When I started First Blood back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by 's.' [ ] The character's name was derived in part from the, a supply of which his wife brought home while he was trying to come up with a suitable name for his character. In the DVD commentary for First Blood, Morell comments that one of the inspirations for Rambo was World War II hero. The town that Madison, Kentucky, was modelled after was. Reception [ ] While John Skow of described the book as ', this negative review appears to be the exception: the book was praised by as 'First-rate', by as 'A fine novel' and by the thriller writer as 'one hell of a hard, fast novel'. When taught creative writing at the University of Maine, he used it as a textbook, and the book has been translated into 26 languages. Adaptation into film [ ] Films development [ ].

Retrieved July 21, 2012. • Drawing First Blood. First Blood DVD: Artisan. • Joe Hartlaub (March 23, 2007). The Book Reporter. Retrieved 2007-10-10. • Morrell's 2000 introduction to the novel, entitled 'Rambo and Me', gives insight on the inspirations and development of the novel (pp.