dankeohane 's review for:

The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille

4.0

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pardon all my typos, did this on my phone, thumb typing: I've been seeing DeMille's books on the bookshelves for so long, last year I finally decided to read the first of the Corey series Plum Island, and very much enjoyed it, the writing was crisp and fast paced and the main character's dialogue constantly funny without being too much. The Lion's Game, though written with the same skill and wit, is a much darker, story, and really in a completely different genre. Plum was a detective/whodunnit more than anything, but Lion is and all-out spy thriller. then characters were many but unique enough I didn't have a problem keeping track of who was who. my one problem, or perhaps an ethical dilemna, half the book was written from the perspective of terrorist himself. he's a fanatical genius and unquestionable sociopath, who kills anyone in his path of they pose any kind of threat. it's tough to spend so much time in that kind of a mind (one reason I'm not a big fan of the Uber popular serial killer, thriller subgenre). but it was one of those books that pulled me back again and again, and if you've read my other reviews, that makes for a great book in my opinion. will definitely be movong on to corey #3 soon enough.