5 non-wrestling business ventures WWE has given a try

#4. WWE novels

This is the closest we can come to showing you the cover of this book.

Now, before you head to the comments section to type "But Kevin, WWE has been putting out books for years! Also, you are quite handsome," I must retort. Yes, while WWE has released many, many books (some of them even bestsellers) they're mostly in the non-fiction area: Superstar biographies, histories of championship titles or events, kids' books - that sort of thing. What I'm talking about here is fiction.

Also, thank you very much.

To date, WWE Books has released two, and only two, works of fiction involving their performers. The first was Journey Into Darkness: An Unauthorized Biography of Kane, written by Michael Chiapetta in 2005 (not to be confused with former WCW ring announcer Gary Michael Capetta who, coincidentally, is also an author.)

Yep. It's a real book.

The novel attempted to streamline the character's history (this isn't to be confused with the actual biography of Glenn Jacobs), despite the fact that said history tended to go all over the place when presented on WWE television. WrestleCrap gives a pretty good description of the story here.

But that has nothing on 2006's Big Apple Take Down, by Rudy Josephs. You guys are simply not ready for this, but here we go.

Vince McMahon and his driver are stranded at a roadside dinner following an auto crash when he runs into his old school nemesis - who just now happens to be running the NSA. This former school chum has a proposition for McMahon - to use WWE Superstars as undercover operatives in secret government missions. No, no, you read that right.

Among these operatives is Tripleple H, Batista, and Torrie Wilson - the star of the cover of the book that we can't even show you directly - as they attempt to take down a meth lab in Brooklyn that's funding terrorists. Again, WrestleCrap can tell you more.

As of this writing, WWE has yet to publish another story in prose form. Now, in other forms on the other hand...