The Panther

Nelson DeMille — 2012

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Bracing and spectacular." - Providence Sunday Journal Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen-one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they will be working with a small team to track down one of the masterminds behind the USS Cole bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther. Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts and murders-and the U.S. government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost. As latecomers to a deadly game, John and Kate don't know the rules, the players, or the score. What they do know is that there is more to their assignment than meets the eye-and that the hunters are about to become the hunted. Filled with breathtaking plot turns and told in John Corey's inimitable voice, THE PANTHER raises disturbing questions about whether we can ever know who our enemies - or our allies - really are.

Reviews

Jane McCullough@janemccullough

Feb 8, 2022

I suppose this book is meant as very light entertainment especially for men who want either to imagine or re-live a contest between themselves and a bad guy. Although the book offered some insight into how the US uses its technology in Yemen and I learned something about Yemen along the way, the entire book was too superficial for me, with Corey's smart mouth the sheen on top of that. Finally, on a basic level, there was little tension until the last third of the book.