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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 2001 (  )  katiemertz | Nov 20, 2009 |  onr of the best books i have ever read- a combination of suspense, humor, wit and history. loved it!!! ( ) blumsclues | Aug 10, 2009 | Nelson Demille's descriptions are excellent. This is a book I actually did not let myself finish quickly. I just did not want the book to end. I waas grateful that I am a slow reader for once! ( ) dianepbh | Apr 4, 2009 | This book is a pseudo-sequel to Demille's Plum island. John Corey has moved on to an anti-terror organization called the ATTF. He still has his smart-ass personality which makes the book entertaining to read and have great narrative. In both this book and in Plum Island, I felt as though the last 100 pages should have been completely different. This is a long book (~1000 pages) and the ending is totally disappointing. I understand that Demille may want to do something differently than the usual ending, but the book really doesn't have much of a conclusion. That was frustrating after such a long book to not have a conclusive ending. The plot and narrative were excellent, but in the end it didn't create much of an ending. I still recommend it though. (  ) Sentinel83 | Jan 12, 2009 | Just about done. Excellent , riveting, fascinating, keeps you turning the pages kind of book. The horrible terrorist is on the move and John Corey and his partner are pulling all the shots to find him. Great thriller , highly recommend. ( ) NWADEL | Jul 7, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0446608262, Mass Market Paperback)John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller Plum Island, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn't stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi's eye after his dad's murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He's heard the nasty rumors about his mom and the colonel, but he aims his rage at the infidels. The boy's got such a gift for terrorism he's earned the nickname "the Lion," and Boris, his vodka-sozzled, sex-addicted émigré mentor, knows precisely how to conduct a murder tour of America one step ahead of the police, the FBI, the CIA, and the ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force), which combines members of all three. A pity Boris must die, but hey, he's an infidel too.Asad pretends to defect, handcuffed to agents aboard a 747 bound for JFK, and he proves to be a worse seatmate than a siding salesman. Corey and his ATTF colleagues (most conspicuously the FBI's sexy Kate Mayfield, Corey's match in badinage and bad-guy busting) strive to halt Asad's methodical yet unpredictable bloodbath. Skillfully, DeMille alternates chapters told from Asad's and Corey's points of view. DeMille did his authenticity homework: when we're not savoring his gift for wiseacre dialogue in the Corey-Kate chapters, we're sweating alongside Asad on his ghastly, ingenious jihad. The New York Times put DeMille's social satire on a par with Edith Wharton's, and he's great on the colliding folkways of the feuding, mutually doublecrossing crimebuster institutions. Naturally, he's on the side of the regular-guy flatfoots. "Cops sit on their asses and flip through their folders," he writes. "Feds sit on their derrieres and peruse their dossiers." And the CIA gets it in the shorts, satirically speaking. One deplores the mass murderers, but the book's real bad guys wear the priciest suits. DeMille reportedly has a $25 million book contract. With fast, funny, absorbing thrillers like The Lion's Game, he's earned it. --Tim Appelo (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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