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The Lion

By: Nelson DeMille
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Lion's Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion". Last we heard from him, Khali had claimed to be defecting to the US only to unleash the most horrific reign of terrorism ever to occur on American soil. While Corey and his partner, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, chased him across the country, Khalil methodically eliminated his victims one by one and then disappeared without a trace.

Now, years later, Khalil has returned to America to make good on his threats and take care of unfinished business. "The Lion" is a killing machine once again loose in America with a mission of revenge, and John Corey will stop at nothing to achieve his own goal - to find and kill Khahil.

©2010 Nelson DeMille (P)2010 Hachette

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A Huge Step Down

The original Lion's Game had an awkward balance to it. You could, at the very least, see that violence is a spiral. This book takes violence and the emotional content in a World Wrestling Federation direction.

DeMille now tells us what to think at every turn, and the universe is now black and white. Corey is now a Lee Child character, all alone, but always the smartest thing around. Well, Jack Reacher isn't a law enforcement professional, I guess, so the stretch for Corey is inane. The points are hammered home with a pile driver, with endless passages devoted to the rawest of emotions.

The books used to be very funny. Now they are very heavy handed. I've reached the end of the line with DeMille, but I heartily recommend anything before Wild Fire, the Gate House, and the utterly miserable The Lion. I didn't get through half.

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Not as good as the first one...

I LOVED the first book and I am a huge Nelson DeMille fan, but this one just didn't do it for me. It had a harder edge than the first book, but less action in my opinion. There was a lot of needless F-Bombs dropping too. It was just OK for me.

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Another Brilliant Performance by Scott Brick

I am a avid Audible listener. Although I do not believe that this is one of Nelson DeMille's better books . . . the plot is extremely predictable, as well as dated being set in 2003 & simplistic about the "war on terror," given in hindsight, what we now know in 2010. However, you can't help loving the character of Detective John Corey, who DeMille has developed so well. Corey is a hoot & the dialogue is extremely funny. I found myself, many times, laughing in the car, as I listened to the dialogue between Corey and the other characters as well as the one liners delivered by Corey. Scott Brick's performance is five stars & he IS Detective John Corey. If you love Scott Brick and DeMille's character of Detective John Corey you will probably enjoy the book. The Lion is a light, fast paced summer listen!

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A Must Read For DeMille Fans

I have read and or listened to every novel DeMille has written. With the exception of Wildfire, I recommend them all. This is a great story, highly entertaining.

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More John Corey!

He is back with his wise crack comments, his wifes sharp tongue, his race with adventure. This is pretty graphic in ways to commit murder while at the same time it is entertaining. Scott Brick is perfect!

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Bad beyond belief

Mr. DeMille wrote one third of a book and rambled to an extremely boring conclusion.

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A lion declawed

Readable, as is all DeMille, but the good guy/ bad guy formula is tired this time out. I finished it but didn't feel good about it.

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Very very good but not great

DeMille has become my favorite author (just barely passing Vince Flynn)and Scot Brick my favorite narrator (just passing George Guidall and Jim Dale).

The Lion is not as good as the Lion Game in plot although it does starts out being a great book the first 4 hours were very intense and quite a page turner if I was reading instead of listening!

Asad Khalil does not do the damage he did the first time around so the pace is much slower after the first 4 hours but still a very good listen.

John Corey is still the smart alick he is and the comic although pridectable is still funny!

I just wish I could find Plum Island on audio, so if you know where I can get it let me know!

All in all not the best but still better than most authors!

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Big Let-Down

Every sequel faces a number of challenges. First is what to do for character development for the reappearing characters. Nothing new was learned about John Cory, no substatial new characters were introduced and nothing was done to elaborate on the 2-demensional Kate. Kate with her beauty, power, education and gender-challenging position in the FBI combined with the absurd relationship evolution with Cory in the previous episode could have been developed in any number of ways, but instead she is sidelined.

Another challenge is building on the previous plot without repeating it. this was a complete repeat.

Cory was most interesting in contrast to the feds and especially Kate. Almost none of that here. It was an NYPD show without the interesting aspects of the NYPD. NYPD just serve as the 'establishment' who demonstrates that their plodding methods aren't effective against 'this' kind of bad guy and provide an authority for Cory to disrepsect.

The killing-machine villian who was so frightening because of his elaborate, surpising methods and his speed has developed an appetite for prolonged hand-to-hand combat. The swift, clever Kalil reduces the ranks of Lybian cab drivers and disaffected Serbians, contibutes nothing at all to the doomsday sub-plot and then devolves into Dolf Lundgren in the final showdown. Only knowing about explosives and such from book and movies, I was never really convinced that a conventional bomb set off in the middle of an enourmous crater was going to harm anything other than dump trucks.

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Makes the case for abridgement.

Wow!! Nelson DeMille has always been wordy, but this is ridiculous! Don't try using this story to keep you awake while driving.

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