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John Corey, the NYPD’s best homicide detective, is taking a well-deserved rest as he recuperates from the grievous wounds he received while in the line of duty.  However, it seems that our heroes can never get even a bit of rest as Corey is hired as a consultant on a very strange case: the murder of two biologist brothers who worked at the site of animal disease research for the Department of Agriculture, on a paradise known as Plum Island .

I've already written a review on a novel which followed the life of John Corey, The Lion’s Game . That book was published over ten years ago. Fast forward to today, and John Corey is still kicking, along with his wife Kate Mayfield, who is an FBI agent while John is part of an anti-terrorist task force.  In John Corey’s latest adventure, he and his wife are sent to Yemen in hopes of tracking a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative, known as The Panther, held responsible for the bombing on the USS Cole. Needless to say, he needs to be brought down at any cost, and that cost turns out to be a deadly game of chess and cat-and-mouse.

Ever since 9/11 occurred it seems that every third word pronounced by people was "terrorism". Indeed, the unspeakable tragedy has opened the eyes of many Americans, showing them the true evil which lurks in some men’s hearts.  Naturally, it goes without saying that many writers were inspired into writing something in relation to those events, and so we shouldn't be surprised at the amount of books related to terrorism which came out during that time. One of my favorite novels from that time is The Lion’s Game by Nelson DeMille, and before getting into why, I’d best give you a brief idea of what the story is about.