false 33808 23 John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller <I>Plum Island</I>, 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.<p> 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. <p> <I>The New York Times</I> 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.<p> DeMille reportedly has a $25 million book contract. With fast, funny, absorbing thrillers like <I>The Lion's Game</I>, he's earned it. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 2319 book 2000 The Lion's Game total:2310|5:755|4:973|3:475|2:97|1:10| 2310 9296 2779 187 4 1 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Jan 13 16:32:39 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 16:33:48 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 19 05:40:28 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 05:42:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 24 12:50:05 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 17:19:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 07:00:09 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 07:29:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sat Nov 15 17:30:44 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 17:44:24 -0800 2008 its wisecracking hero, John Corey, and the very ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 23 12:39:55 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 13:08:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 09 04:51:10 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 18 04:57:27 -0800 2008
Asad Khalil has boarded a jet from Libya to JFK airport in the United States. However it turns out that he is missing when the plane landed. All that was left behind was hundreds of dead innocent people. Now detective john Cory and detective Cate Mayfield are on his tai...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Fri Apr 17 09:27:35 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 10:26:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 02 09:27:24 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 09:30:45 -0800 2008
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