The Lion's Game
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.964
EAN: 9780316848121
ISBN: 0316848123
Label: Time Life Education
Manufacturer: Time Life Education
Number Of Pages: 689
Publication Date: 1971-10
Publisher: Time Life Education
Studio: Time Life Education
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Summary: Typical DeMille
Comment: A friend turned me on to DeMille a few years ago and after "Up Country" couldn't wait to read his other books. I literally save his books in between other authors to act like a treat. He is on a par of a Wilbur Smith for excitement and style, holding the reader on the edge from chapter to chapter. My only regret is there are not enough of his books as compared to a Wilbur Smith. This pics up where the last one left off and it is nice to see a John Corey book back again, I just love the character. I work around cops all day and he is so typical in comments, attitude and demeanor it is uncanny. While perhaps not politically correct ( heck that style has worked wonders for Vince Flynn) the book his page turning excitement as the hunt for a killer moves about with the expected twists and turns of a DeMille book.
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Summary: Had to buy it in hard copy
Comment: I purchased the paperback version, because it was cheaper. I would have preferred to order it for my Kindle, but why pay over $10 for a paperback?
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Summary: What is up with the price?
Comment: I have not yet read this book but am curious what is going on with Amazon? I bought my Kindle in May and it is amazing the speed with which they are raising book prices. $12.99 for a 10 year old book? That is crazy. I could get one for $2 at the second hand store but will pay a little more to have it on the Kindle because I prefer to read that way. This price difference is out of hand though.
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Summary: Anyway
Comment: I can't tell you how many paragraphs DeMille starts with the word, "Anyway..." This signifies that he has gone off on a tangent during which John Corey issues his "witticisms" that are at most annoying and at worst, painful.
Let's face it, Mr. DeMille, you are not funny and you should give up trying to force your attempts at humor on the reader.
The other huge problem with this book is that it's about 250 pages short of War and Peace, a much more interesting novel, by a superior author.
The beginning of the book promised so much more but now we are bogged down in the minute detail of federal law enforcement bureaucracy.
It's a wonder the feds catch anyone. And yet they do, giving me pause to question the accuracy of DeMille's opinions of our law enforcement community.
I've enjoyed several of Mr. Demille's books. This wasn't one of them.
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Summary: GREEDY
Comment: I will never pay that much money to read a 10 yr. old book on my Kindle. GREEDY. The only reason I gave it one star is because I had too
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When Asad was just 16, an American bomb killed his mother and four siblings. Twelve years later he is in New York City, determined to avenge their deaths by killing all five of the surviving pilots. John Corey, now working for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, must find and stop him.
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