The ninth in his Prey series, Secret Prey attests to Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford's extraordinary expertise at keeping his fans in suspense. Each successive installment in the harrowing adventures of Detective Lucas Davenport is a shock wave of excitement and terror. At first the shooting death of the company chairman seems like an unfortunate hunting accident—until Lucas investigates the other four executives in the hunting party. None of the four seems unduly upset about the CEO's death. In fact, investigation reveals that each could actually benefit from his demise. In a race against time, Lucas must ferret out a deadly secret that will inevitably lead to another murder, perhaps even his own. Even veteran John Sandford fans should steel themselves for a deliciously nerve-wracking and unpredictable listening experience. Richard Ferrone's rich narration provides the perfect medium for a work of stunning plot twists and unrelenting suspense.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781449879952
- File size: 353621 KB
- Duration: 12:16:42
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- English
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Starred review from May 4, 1998
After his muscle-stretching sidestep in 1997's The Night Crew, Sandford is back with his ninth Prey novel featuring dapper, dangerous Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport. Fans of the series will be glad to hear that this is the best installment in years--full of smart suspense and deduction as well as explosive action. Newcomers can plunge in without backstory research; all they need to know is that Davenport and his fellow cops are still nursing the wounds they garnered in Sudden Prey and that a depressed Lucas has gotten dumped by Weather, his girlfriend in that novel, when he is sent to investigate the murder of banking executive Daniel Kresge in a hunting lodge north of Minneapolis. Any of Kresge's four fellow hunters--all employees at his Polaris Bank--could have shot him, and all had motives (as did his "soon-to-be-ex-wife"). We find out about halfway through the book who the real killer is, just a few pages before Lucas does, and that villain is a masterful creation. This is where Sandford's suspense-making skills really kick in, keeping us fascinated as Davenport--revitalized by an affair with a jaunty colleague--tries to turn what we all know into hard evidence.
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