Panther, The (#6) by Nelson DeMille

Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have just been posted overseas to Sana’a, Yemen- one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. they haven’t been given much information about their mission except that 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 Panter. 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. Now, 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...