Were the books actually any good?
I remember picking one up off the free bookshelf at church as a child, probably because it had a ninja on the cover. It opens with this guy observing two men arguing, then “throwing rocks” at each other. He then reminiscences about how his sensei taught him that dodging bullets is really the same thing as dodging thrown rocks, and they’re both easy if you’re a martial arts master, so he thinks of gunfights as “throwing rocks” now.
Even at 10 I thought that was a bit silly.