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List Price: $26.95
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Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399155000
ISBN: 0399155007
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-05-06
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Studio: Putnam Adult
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Editorial Reviews:
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Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before— but never one quite like this, in the shocking new Prey novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
John Sandford’s most recent Davenport novel, Invisible Prey, was hailed as “one of his best books in recent memory” (The Washington Post); “as fresh and entertaining as ever” (Chicago Sun-Times); and “rivetingly readable” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). But this time, he’s got something quite special in store.
A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood everywhere, no body—and her collegeaged daughter missing. She’s always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them—Goths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup and black clothing, listening to that awful music, so attracted to death. And now this.
But the police can’t find the girl, alive or dead, and when a second Goth is found slashed to death in Minneapolis, the widow truly panics. There’s someone she knows, a surgeon named Weather Davenport, whose husband is a big deal with the police, and she implores Weather to get him directly involved. Lucas begins to investigate only reluctantly—but then when a third Goth is slashed in what is now looking like a Jackthe- Ripper series of killings, he starts working it hard. The clues don’t seem to add up, though. And then there’s the young Goth who keeps appearing and disappearing: Who is she? Where does she come from and, more important, where does she vanish to? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here . . . something very, very bad indeed?
Filled with his brilliant trademark suspense and some of the most interesting characters in thriller fiction, Phantom Prey is further proof that “Sandford is in a class of his own” (The Orlando Sentinel).
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Summary: Sandford does it again
Comment: Is there a better crime fiction novelist out there than Sandford? This was another home run (not a grand slam; I need more Kidd novels) in the Lucas Davenport oeuvre. His dialogue, as always, is excellent, and he paints the scene like Elmore Leonard. Keep them coming. I wish he would put out two books a year. I can't wait until the next installment.
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Summary: Flo's Pros
Comment: I just finished this on 7-20 and I really enjoyed it. I especially like the fact that he uses good English and every once in a while slips in a bit of humor such "the kevlar helmets sitting on the table looking like lost turtles". A few pages later he lists all the men, vehicles and equipment going to the site ending with "and a partridge in a pear tree."
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Summary: awful storyline
Comment: Having read all of this series, I can honestly say this was by far the worst. Oh, it is readable as Sandford's prose flows, but the storyline, particularly the lame outcome, leaves you with the feeling (actually about half way through!!) the author was just going through the motions to get it over with to fufill the one-a- year contract. Plot line is adequately presented in the reviews of others so I won't comment. If you havent read earlier books in the series, save your money from this one and get one of the others.
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Summary: One of the Best Prey books yet
Comment: No need to go into the plot....that's been done in many reviews. Surfice to say that I've read every book in the "Prey" series and most of Sandford's other books. This was one of the best yet. Lucas Davenport gave us everything we've come to expect and more. Fabulous! John Sandford hasn't lost a step. I don't understand any of the negative reviews...did they read the same book?
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Summary: SPOILER!!!! Don't read unless you've read the book
Comment: OK, I have read the entire series. I like Sandford's writing, and this book does not disappoint in this area. But the plot. . . .
Spoiler Alert
The split personality thing is the laziest form of deception in mysteries. It's been done to death, and never convincingly. It's just an easy way for an author to misdirect the reader, and its not very interesting or realistic. C'mon create a real plot. For the split personality thing, you really have to CARE about the person, and no effort is put into that here. See, Three, in which the author invested you heavily in the character that turned out to be fractured. Still not a great book, but the concept is better than this.
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