''The Lion's Game'' is a 2000 novel by American author

Nelson DeMille Nelson Richard DeMille (August 23, 1943 – September 17, 2024) was an American author of Adventure fiction, action adventure and Thriller (genre), suspense novels. His novels include ''Plum Island (novel), Plum Island'', ''The Charm School (nov ...

. It is the second of DeMille's novels to feature the detective John Corey, now working as a contractor for the fictional FBI Anti-Terrorist Task Force in

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. It is a sequel to '' Plum Island'' and is followed by the 2004 book '' Night Fall''. The book also briefly mentions events from other DeMille novels like '' The Charm School'' and ''The Gold Coast'', that aren't strictly part of the Corey-universe.

Plot

"The Lion" will be landing. And at New York's

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Airport, an elite American task force waits as the notorious Libyan terrorist prepares to defect to the West. Then, aboard Flight 175, something goes eerily, horribly wrong - a mere prelude to the terror that is to come. Ex-NYPD cop, now Task Force contract agent John Corey - together with his formidable and beautiful new partner,

Kate Mayfield Nelson Richard DeMille (August 23, 1943 – September 17, 2024) was an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. His novels include '' Plum Island'', '' The Charm School'', and '' The General's Daughter''. DeMille also wrote unde ...

- will follow a trail of smoke and blood across the country. His quarry: a foe with the cunning of a man and all the bloodlust of a lion. To win a desperate game with no rules at all, Corey must invent a strategy that leaves room for no luck at all.

Film adaptation

According to the official

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, a movie about ''The Lion's Game'' (and ''Plum Island'') will be released. The rights to the novel were bought by

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in January 2000.

Critical reception

George Hackett, writer for ''

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'', said that "for sheer suspense, there's nothing better than the opening of Nelson DeMille's latest thriller".

References

External links

The Lion's Game on Nelson DeMille's Official Website
2000 American novels Novels by Nelson DeMille Novels set in New York City {{2000s-thriller-novel-stub