In this paper, we solve and study the global behavior of the admissible solutions of the difference equation $$\begin{aligned} x_{n+1}=\frac{x_{n}x_{n-2}}{-ax_{n-1}+bx_{n-2}}, \quad n=0,1,\ldots , \end{aligned}$$
x
n
+
1
=
x
n
x
n
-
2
-
a
x
n
-
1
+
b
x
n
-
2
,
n
=
0
,
1
,
…
,
where $$a, b>0$$
a
,
b
>
0
and the initial values $$x_{-2}$$
x
-
2
, $$x_{-1}$$
x
-
1
, $$x_{0}$$
x
0
are real numbers.