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 The Lion's Game byNelson DeMille Warner Books Inc. 677 pages, 2000 ISBN 0446520659 Reviewed by Dr. Wesley Sharpe, Ed.D "You'd think that anyone who'd been shot three times and almost became an organ donor would try to avoid dangerous situations in the future," John Corey thought. To Corey, a retired NYPD detective and Special Contact Agent for the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force, picking up a Libyan ex-terrorist defecting to the West seems like a low risk assignment. Then, at JFK's international terminal he learns that something has gone terribly wrong aboard the giant 747. The police find a planeload of corpses, and the handcuffed terrorist, Asad Khalil, has disappeared. Khalil, The Lion, plans to kill the American pilots responsible for the death of his family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. The trail of blood stretches from New York to California, as he works his way toward the home of the former president Khalil holds personally responsible for the death of his family. Corey's streetwise smarts and brash style sometimes rub his FBI and CIA partners the wrong way, and he comes close to being fired from the case. But it's Corey and his fellow agent and fiancée, Kate Mayfield, who eventually stop the psychopathic killer. Fans of Nelson DeMille will find it hard to resist this accomplished storyteller's newest tale. The Lion's Game gives readers what seems to be a realistic glimpse of how law enforcement agencies cooperate to track down international terrorists. It is a breathtaking and believable story, one that I could hardly put down until I finished reading. |
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