The Lion's Game: Booktrack Edition

By: Nelson DeMille

Narrated by: Scott Brick

The Lion's Game: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
"The Lion" will be landing. And at New York's JFK 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 Federal Task Force agent John Corey -- together with his formidable and beautiful new partner, Kate Mayfield -- will follow a trail of smoke and blood across the country. His quarry: a foe withteh cunning of a lion and all the bloodlust of a man. To win a desperate game with no rules at all, Corey must invent a strategy that leaves no room for mistakes.
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

Loved the story. I hated the music:

The music with the story is aggravating. It didn’t go with the story. It was distracting. The story was good.

Enjoyed

John Corey is interesting and annoyingly funny. Cool story line and great character development. There are chapters that drag and seem to be there to kill time. I didn’t expect the ending but it leaves room for a sequel I guess.

Music! Ugh!!!

Just have to spin a word or two inabhorence of the background music. Almost could not continue with book but glad I did for all other redeeming features. Whose idea was
this? Good writing, reading, and plot do not require help with reader’s imagination…

A 25-hour book should not be part of a serial

Everything about this book was good except for the loose ends the listener was left with. You don't want to listen to a book for nearly 25 hours only to discover the antagonist goes on to live another day and fight another battle. The Lion is in my library and I will listen to it next. The curious thing is that I listen to a lot of books and often relisten to them years later because my brain doesn't retain information not necessary to my survival. I listened to this book about 10 years ago but it never dawned on me that this was my second listen. Maybe it was because the music in the booktrack edition was a new phenomenon to me. My first listen did not come with music. Or maybe it's because I'm an idiot. This will be my second listen of The Lion. The first was about 7-8 years ago. I will get closure a second time. The silver lining is that DeMille is such a good writer and I get to listen to more of his books than the average listener. I think I'll go with that.

Entertaining and unexpected

Love John Corey as I relate to his sarcasm. You think you predict the next step then...not so much.