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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.