No wonder this has never been reprinted—it was based on the original version of the screenplay and it leaves utterly no room for the existence of the future Lethal Weapon movies. The poor copy I read was so dusty that I don't think it was touched in the last twenty years, and it shed four pages for every thirty I read with appallingly clockwork regularity. But still, I love reading novelizations because they typically contain richer details than the original movie, and this particular novelization was no exception. It was fascinating to read through it and match the how the details in the book compared to my memories of the movie.

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