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A review by balthazarlawson
The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille
2.0
Anyway, after all that the terrorist got away. Possible with the help of the CIA or maybe not.
This book is ridiculously long and if 50% had been cut out it would have been a much better story. It was repetitive and contradictory in places.
A Libyan terrorist "defects" to American via the embassy in Paris. The ATTF is to meet him when he arrives in New York by plane. John Corey is part of the this task force. He is an ex-NYPD homicide detective and is partnered with FBI agent Kate Mayfield, who by the end of the book he marries. But the whole thing is a plot and the plane lands with everyone onboard dead, except for the defecting terrorist. He is on a revenge mission and John Corey and Kate Mayfield have to find him. Thus begins this long, very long, drawn out story, that really only covers about a week.
It was a hard slog to read as John Corey's character was always taking things on a tangent with silly jokes.
Just way too long.
This book is ridiculously long and if 50% had been cut out it would have been a much better story. It was repetitive and contradictory in places.
A Libyan terrorist "defects" to American via the embassy in Paris. The ATTF is to meet him when he arrives in New York by plane. John Corey is part of the this task force. He is an ex-NYPD homicide detective and is partnered with FBI agent Kate Mayfield, who by the end of the book he marries. But the whole thing is a plot and the plane lands with everyone onboard dead, except for the defecting terrorist. He is on a revenge mission and John Corey and Kate Mayfield have to find him. Thus begins this long, very long, drawn out story, that really only covers about a week.
It was a hard slog to read as John Corey's character was always taking things on a tangent with silly jokes.
Just way too long.