This is the end of one of my favorite books, "The Lion's Game," by Nelson Demille, so if you have any intention of reading it, stop right now. Basically it just confirms that the good guys survive. So, anyway, after 900 pages of thrilling drama, the protagonists John Cory and Kate Mayfield finally escape a harrowing encounter with a viscous Libyan assassin, nicknamed the Lion. Here is the final scene where they set up the sequel very well:
Gene pointed to the distant
treeline and said, “We found fifty-two shell casings on the ground. I’ve never heard of so many shots fired by a
sniper at two people. That guys really
wanted what he couldn’t have.”
I think he was telling us that the
game wasn’t over.
The treeline was making me a little
nervous, so we moved on. Gene showed us where Ted Nash had been found on a
riding trail, less that a hundred meters from the VORTAC, with a single round
through his forehead. I have no idea where
Ted was going, or what he was doing there in the first place, and we’d never
know.
Considering we were on our honeymoon,
I’d suggested we’d seen enough, and we went back to the ranch house, had a
Coke, ate a few jelly beans, and moved on to points north.
We had left Kate’s cell phone back
in New York, not wanting any calls from friends or assassins on our
honeymoon. But just as a precaution, we
both brought our guns along.
You never know.
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