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Summary: Great!
Review: I love a good book and this one is excelent! Perfect follow-up for the Plum Island. Fun, fast paced, great suspense and perfect technical details. At the beginning I was going to complain to Demille about the autolanding capabilities of the 747 but since it is a "new" -700 series I let it pass. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: The Lions Game - Part One
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Mr Demille's most recent offering until I watched the amount of tapes decreasing. I started to wonder how the story would end so quickly based on where I as the listener was in the plot.I first tried to convince myself that there would be a surprise ending with our villian being involved with our CIA friends. As I listened to the last tape my fears were confirmed when as the tape ended I fully expected to hear "to be continued in The Lions Game - Part Two." I as an avid reader and listener have always appreciated the opening and the closure presented by a book. Now with all of our sequels and to be continued's it looks as though this book has become a member of the club. It would have been more honest to have had as the last line ....... to be continued. To go through all of the book and follow the hunt of the Lion's rampage, I looked forward to a closure that would match the evil that had been dispensed. I do not mind books that are a series of complete stories containing common characters, I have my favorites, as I'm sure that everyone else has. In this case however I was left feeling unsatisfied and somwhat cheated out of and ending that the novel built me up to as the story and characters continued to gain my interest. While not happy, I am mad at myself because when the next book comes out and the Lion's rampage continues, I will undoubtedly buy the book or tape to continue my search for the ending that this novel so richly deserved.
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Summary: SERIAL KILLER ON A JIHAD. NYPD,FBI,CIA,TERRORISTS - WOW
Review: In my wildest nightmares I couldn't have come up with a story line like this one. After the first 50 to 75 pages you are hooked. It's hard to see where this story will take you. The twists and turns are as wild as the ride to the ranch. The patter between the sexes was corny, but believable. This will be an HBO movie or a made-for-TV miniseries, bet on it. Not great literature, but an exciting read.
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Summary: Lion's Game
Review: The book was short on plot and suspense. DeMill's version of the hardboiled, wise-cracking detective is completely unsympathetic and complains constantly about perceived offenses that completely escape the reader. Wasn't worth the price.
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Summary: Should be shorter
Review: Lion's Game is a well-constructed novel that could have been trimmed by a couple of hundred pages and been a better read. It takes until well over half the book before someone finally gets on the terrorist's track and the chase begins. Until then, you are bogged down in too many meetings and a lot of talk, no action. The author should have more respect for the reader. If he wants to write this many pages, he should make the story less stale for so much of the book. The only one generating action is Khalil when he is toying with his victims. The other characters sit around too long with their fingers up their you-know-whats.
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Summary: A little better than run-of-demille
Review: You'd be hard pressed to find a better or more intriguingopening 75 pages than the ones DeMille has crafted in "The Lion'sGame." A jet lands from Paris and everybody is dead. Okay. I'm hooked. How'd it happen? Who's responsible? And how are they going to catch him? The overly cornball Corey humor and his overwritten conflicts with the FBI tend to hamper the Corey chapters. And his romance with a female FBI agent strains plausibility. But, the narrative pull is strong. And the Corey-esque humor that worked put a smile on my face. I'll sign on -- reluctantly -- for the sequel. END
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Summary: Excellent Blend - Serial Killer, Humor, Strong Characters
Review: As a great fan of this type of writing, I especially loved the dialogue, the back-and-forth between the male and female leads, and the mind games of the killer and the trackes. This was an excellent book. For others interested in the psyche of the killer, try the book Just Killing Time.
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Summary: Can't put it down
Review: I open the book just as my flight departed Sydney, Australia and was left with only 100 pages before arriving in Boise, Idaho (No, it was not a slow plane). Being on my flight only added to the atmosphere and reality of the plot. I have a voracious appetite for novels and have only read a dozen in which I could not put the book down, and this is one of them. It was great to read something in which you can't see the sub plots, direction and outcome after the first 5 chapters. I highly recommend this to anyone.
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Summary: DeMille has outdone himself.
Review: No author can match Nelson Demille for his signature style in combining, suspense, action and cutting edge wit throughout his many intriguing and thoroughly enjoyable books. I found myself reading more slowly because I didn't want this one to end. I certainly hope Mr. Demille plans a sequel.
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Summary: Ending stinks
Review: I am bummed out. Nelson DeMille is my favorite author and I eagerly awaited The Lion's Game. I wasn't thrilled with DeMille's choice to write a sequel to Plum Island, as there are characters from other DeMille books I would rather see again. Still, I enjoyed John Corey's humor and thought the plot was great - right up to the end. Then it became clear that DeMille wrote this book only to set up a sequel. If we are destined to see John Corey over and over again, a la James Bond, the books should at least stand on their own individually. DeMille is a good writer with a large enough following that he shouldn't feel the need to rely on cliffhangers to sell future books. Also, the book could do without the two or three thinly veiled attacks on those who didn't like the movie version of The General's Daughter. DeMille should just take his lumps - the movie stunk.
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