Instead, their priority was getting veteran writers who could bring specific expertise to their story, about a CIA agent struggling to convince incredulous colleagues that a U.S. war hero is in fact a terrorist in waiting.
It's Mr Block's willingness to give his hero a bit of extra psychological depth to show that he's really just an ordinary Joe with problems of his own that makes his Matt Scudder books so satisfying.
This is, after all, a country that just inaugurated an annual Hero of Atheism award. (This year's winner was Sima Nan, a 43-year-old ex-journalist who debunks the "superhuman" feats of local shamans on his TV show.) "The sincere advocacy of freedom of religious belief is based on our understanding of the dialectical materialistic theory, " says Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Council's Religious Affairs Bureau.
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Kevyn Orr is under no illusions that he'll be treated as a hero when he begins his duties as the Motor City's emergency manager, an appointment that makes Detroit the nation's largest city ever put under state control.
"I think the bottom line here in the statistic that was astonishing to me is George Bush's father was a war hero lost the veterans' vote to Bill Clinton who ... did not serve in a war, " Rollins said.
The leader of that effort, a U.S. Army Captain named Seymour Pomrenze, was a hero whose actions embodied the professionalism and dedication of the uniform he wore.
She has a lead that the Bullet wasn't the war hero he's cracked up to be.
But, he adds, that's just fine considering, after all, "Guitar Hero" is a video game.
Just like he was in the win over Latvia on Friday, Gylfi Sigurdsson was Iceland's hero, scoring twice in a famous win over a side that finished third at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
"It's quite understandable that most people feel reluctant to be a have-a-go hero and it is important that they have the confidence to intervene and know when it is appropriate, " report author Edward Boyd said.
Captain Steven Gerrard was once more revelling in central midfield, and he almost set up Jermain Defoe with a precise lofted pass that the hat-trick hero of Friday's 4-0 win against Bulgaria fired well off target.
He is McLaren's first world champion since Mika Hakkinen in 1999, and joins a club that includes his hero Ayrton Senna and all-time greats Alain Prost and Niki Lauda.
"For Love of the Game" is a perfect showcase for Costner's strongest character, that of the reluctant all-American hero.
While his exploits abroad had made him a hero to India's footballers, it wasn't until recently that Bhutia enjoyed wider recognition.
As we mark the 100th anniversary of Rosa Parks's birth, we celebrate the life of a genuine American hero and remind ourselves that although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
That's exactly how the U.S. did it in 1991 and 1992 when it faced a credit crunch so severe that Gulf War hero George Bush lost the 1992 election to an unknown Bill Clinton.
This cemented Lynch as the everyman's hero because the book convinced millions of investors that you didn't need to be a quant or investing savant to find so-called "10 bagger" stocks (stocks that go up tenfold.) Just use common sense and invest in things you see everyday and understand.
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who will be sworn in as interim president later Friday, laid a replica of the sword that South American hero Simon Bolivar used on top of Chavez's flag-draped casket.
But Antunes, who revealed before the tournament in an interview with CNN's Human to Hero series that he had received advice from Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, has created a team which is keen to make up for lost time.
The super hero's star-spangled swimsuit is to be replaced by a radical new style that includes leggings.
It's perfect timing perhaps for the launch of a fashion range that celebrates an all-American, albeit originally Amazonian, hero.
And there is nary a tea party protest that doesn't prominently splash banners alluding to John Galt, Atlas Shrugged's ubermensch hero.
That is the message of "Eisenhower 1956, " David A. Nichols's history of how Ike, the old hero of World War II, resisted great pressure to commit U.S. forces in the Suez Crisis and, later, the rebellion in Hungary.
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