The Lion's Game by Nelson Demille

Genre: Fiction, 850 pages

Nelson DeMille is a writer whom I've just recently discovered, but believe me when I say I wonder where he's been all my life!! The man is that good. I'm almost ashamed to say this is the first book of his that I'm reading, because he's so good and has been writing for so long that I feel I should've known about him long before now. I read The Lion's Game and I couldn't put it down till the last page, it's totally one of those kind of books-unputdownable!

A Terrorist

As a young boy, Asad Khalil witnessed his mother and sisters killed by a bomb dropped on his family house during the American air raid on Libya in 1986. On the day the bombs dropped and he became an orphan sworn to jihad, he was sixteen and had just had sex with a Muslim girl for the first time. Young Khalil is convinced that this is Allah's instant punishment on him for defiling himself. However he makes it his life's goal to find and kill every one of the U.S flight team that dropped the bomb that killed his family. 


He becomes one of the world's deadliest terrorist and is nicknamed "The Lion". 


A Detective

John Corey is a divorced, former NYPD Homicide detective now working as a contract agent for an anti-terrorist unit. 

The Game

 "Wanted - Asad Khalil, Libyan, age approximately 30, height six feet, speaks English, Arabic, some French, Italian and German. Armed and dangerous."

The book opens with a team of FBI and NYPD detectives waiting to take Asad Khalil into custody at the airport. But what happens alerts them to the fact that they are dealing with someone who is extremely intelligent, resourceful and has had years to gather necessary intelligence and plan every detail of his entrance into the U.S. The plane bringing in Khalil comes in hijacked, with everyone on board dead for hours by poisonous gas inhalation and Khalil escapes right under their noses disguised as one of the emergency response team that entered the aircraft to assess the situation.

Thus begins a deadly mind game that takes John Corey and his team on an intense journey filled with gruesome murders and Asad Khalil outsmarting them at every turn.

Rating: 3.5stars

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey

Genre: Motivational, 232 pages

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is Steve Harvey's first book. It was published in March 2009 and was such a hit that it got a movie made out of it three years later. I read the book early in 2012, (believe it or not, my fiancee bought  it for me to read, great of him yeah?) and it is easily one of my favorite books because it is clearly written with so much honesty and the intent to really help people in their relationships.
Trust me, it is a wonderful book for finding your way in a relationship even when you think you've got it covered, because let's face it, we all need guidance sometimes.

While this kind of book might not appeal  to everyone, i think it's got more than a few things that everyone will agree on because really, there're so many bad relationships out there with genuine men and women struggling to find and keep the right person, while some are really just in the field to play and score as many as they can.

Some Chapters in the book; 

Chapter 1 - The Mind-Set of a Man

1 - What Drives Men
2 - Our Love isn't Like Your Love
3 - The Three Things Every Man Needs: Support, Loyalty and the Cookie
4 - "We Need to Talk," and Other Words That Men Run for Cover

Excerpt 

 

What Drives Men

There is no truer statement: men are simple. Get this into your head first, and everything you learn about us in this book will begin to fall into place. Once you get that down you'll have to understand a few essential truths: men are driven by who they are, what they do, and how much they make. No matter if a man is CEO, CON, or both, everything he does is filtered through his title (who he is), how he gets that title (what he does), and the reward he gets for the effort (how much he makes). These three things make up the basic DNA of manhood-the three accomplishments every man must achieve before he feels like he's truly fulfilled his destiny as a man. And until he's achieved his goal in those three areas, the man you're dating, committed to or married to  will be too busy to focus on you.


Ladies, it is a great book for a relationship guide, do yourself a favor and get it. Guys, there are a few tips to understanding women as well, so if you're of that special class of men (big grin) who know that no knowledge is useless, you'd read this Steve Harvey's book too.

Peace and love...