Summary
New York City policeman turned FBI agent John Corey returns after his adventures in PLUM ISLAND. This time the courageous cop must stop the vengeful terrorist Asad Khalil, whose family was killed in the U.S. bombing on Libya in 1986, from assassinating every American involved in the catastrophe. Alternating between intense third-person accounts of Khalil's lofty mission and Corey's own first-person narrative, this book gives readers an abundant dose of blood, action, and personal drama.
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"DeMille has clearly studied his market. But predictability, in this case, isn't a matter for criticism. The thriller form is as technically demanding as a sonnet, and DeMille works with enormous intelligence, pacing his two narrative strands....THE LION'S GAME carries us along with a professionalism many writers, highbrow and low, should admire." -- Neil Gordon
-- New York Times Book Review
"DeMille has only grown stronger and more confident over the years, and while THE LION'S GAME arrives at nearly 700 pages, he keeps the plot twists coming at a lightning pace." -- Chris Petrakos
-- Chicago Tribune Books
"DeMille sweeps you along with his masterful crosscutting between the good guys and the bad, slaying both the extremist Middle Eastern mindset and our own lowbrow American culture, and stumbles only with a disappointingly prosaic finale." -- Charles Winecoff
-- Entertainment Weekly
"The biggest scaled yet of DeMille's best-selling crime thrillers."
-- Kirkus
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 2.3 pounds
Pages: 1037
Publisher's Notes
Detective John Corey sets out to caputre the world's most dangerous terrorist--a young Arab known as "The Lion"--a man who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance against America for bombing Libya and killing his family.
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