The Lion’s Game - Nelson DeMille

Written by Nelson DeMille
Read by Scott Brick
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Series: A John Corey Novel, Book 2
· Length: 24 hrs and 45 mins
· Release date: 02-22-00
· Publisher: Hachette Audio

To survive in a game with no rules at all, John Corey must invent a strategy that includes no luck at all.

Lifting a creepy detail from the Flying Dutchman legend–a ship manned by corpses–DeMille raises the curtain on a John Corey mystery with a 747 landing itself at New York. Onboard, everyone is dead. The macabre scene alarms the NYPD’s Corey even more because the deceased do not include a particular prisoner-passenger listed on the manifest, Asad Khalil, “defecting” Libyan terrorist.

Since Corey’s exploits in “Plum Island” (1997), he has joined an interagency team slated to take Khalil into custody. The perils of Khalil being at large are immediately impressed upon Corey and his new FBI love interest when they discover half their colleagues murdered.

… Suspense arises from Corey and company’s pursuit of Khalil, a mission complicated by Corey’s suspicions of the CIA contingent assigned to the case and by Corey’s un-PC, antiauthoritarian sarcasm. Flouting orders at every opportunity,