"The Lion"will be landing. And at New York'sJFK 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-NYPDcop, now Task Force contract 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 with the 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 roomfor no luck at all...