Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife FBI agent Kate Mayfield have been posted overseas to Sanaa 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 hes wanted for multiple terrorist acts and murders-and the US government is determined to bring him down no matter the cost As latecomers to a deadly game John and Kate dont 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 Coreys inimitable voice THE PANTHER is a brilliant depiction of one of the most treacherous countries in the world and raises disturbing questions about whether we can ever know who our enemies - or our allies - really are.