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Summary: Yaaawwwwnnnnn.....
Review: Well, this is my first attempt at reading a "Prey" novel. I really could not get much farther than the character "Del Capslock"....I found that such a repulsive name for a character. Why not "Tab Esc" or "Alt Shift"? How creative can the author be? And Davenport.....so many mundane issues...depression...all quite depressing really.
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: I've read all but 2 of the Prey series and none of them are bad, but this is really a good book. I did not want to put it down, and was pleased with the book from beginning to end. Again, Wonderful book.
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Summary: SAME SONG-SECOND VERSE!!!!!
Review: Maybe should say 9th verse. Secret Prey is very much like the other Prey books, but I enjoy most of them anyway. I gave it 4 stars because of the sex play again. I do wish Sandford would not do that as much. But, who am I to judge an author, I could never write anything. I do like Lucus, Del, Sloan, Franklin and Sherrill. Wish Lucus and Sherrill were not an item. Fast moving, if you like a good mystery with a small amount of sex you will like Secret Prey.
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Summary: Nothing like a good Sandford
Review: I think I sound like a broken record while reviewing a Prey series book, but here it goes anyhow. The rich and well to do have trouble in their sect and Lucas has his hands full once again. The start with the hunting, the stuggle for power in the bank, the suspense of who the suspects are make a good story. Lucas a has attacks on his loved ones as well. Through it he manges his usual affair with a fine lady, this time a co-worker. The cast, Sloan, The chief, Del, Loring, Sherril all live up to their billing. The "Cancun" ending had me laughing. Again I look forward to the two "Prey" series books I've yet to read.
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Summary: Hard to put down
Review: Sandford is the pseudonym for John Camp, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. I happened to run across this book while staying with a friend at Little St. Simon's Island over Thanksgiving. It was one of those bibliophile moments when you are bored and perusing a bookcase of paperbacks. Suddenly I was enthralled. I like his characters so much that I have read four of his novels and am in the middle of two more in less than a month. I find I cannot put them down! I actually cannot tell you precisely why I like these books so much, which may be the greatest testimonial I can give them as simply good reads. Most of them are set in the Minneapolis area and the central characters are a homicide team that gets the toughest cases. The central figure in the series is Lucas Davenport, a detective, then ultimately a vice-chief who made a good bit of money designing software games but is addicted to the dangers and complexities of solving difficult crimes and taking on violent criminals. This particular novel involves the killing of a bank president in the middle of a merger. It has enough twists and turns to keep you turning the pages all night. The characters are believable and the plot is both engrossing and becomes very convincing as you get deeper into the characters' personalities, histories and motivation. Sandford/Camp is to Minneapolis what Parker is to Boston and Archer was to Southern California. I highly recommend his works.
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Summary: Good, but not the best I have ever read
Review: Secret Prey was a good book that had some twists and turns, but it seem very predictable to me. The book was well written and engrossing, and flowed along very fast. I would recommend this book to just about anyone, but I liked some of the other "Prey" books a bit better.
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Summary: Great Read..
Review: This was my first book by John Sandford. I picked this book up while on vacation but didn't get a chance to read it till just recently. I loved the suspense of not knowing who committed the crime. I'm definitely going to get his other books. If you like suspense and drama this is a book you wouldn't want to miss.
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Summary: Good, not great
Review: This is my third time into Sandford prey series and unfortunately they seem to be getting worse. I loved Mind Prey and was hoping that the rest of the Prey series were written in the same way, but Secret Prey was not. This crime thriller sees the reader again with Lucas Davenport trying to solve a murder of an extremely wealthy businessman - there are a number of possible suspects and one by one they get eliminated during the course of the book. Halfway through the book the reader finds out who the killer is, but it still takes Lucas a while to get there. I enjoyed this book, but it certainly didn't 'wow' me like Mind Prey as I felt that the last half of the book really didn't tell us anything new, it just made us follow Lucas' trail to the killer. I read this book in a few hours & I recommend it if you are looking for time to kill. I don't think that this is one of Sandford's best, but it is still entertaining.
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Summary: Slow boiling
Review: Sandford does not write the same thriller over and over, merely varying the scenery. No, while Secret Prey starts with the usual bang, it then just ambles through seemingly disconnected bits--a new twist. Sandford's masterful plotting is only revealed as finally a prime suspect emerges from frustratingly patient police interrogation and backgrounding. Then, bang, we're running again to somehow trap the long secret perpetrator. What's creepy is the ramifying evil, which here oozes from dusty records and memories of old cases, unpredictably revealing shocking new lights on one innocuous event after another, without foreboding. Wonderful! I don't think this is necessarily "by far the best Prey" (AP), for the previous two grabbed me faster and deeper initially, and the endless active snow of Winter Prey still earlier keeps popping back into mind. This story is not the usual heart-pounding chase around Minneapolis, if that is what you seek, but instead evokes new aspects and psychological facets of several familiar team characters: depression, laughter, injury, love. Sandford constructs psychologically coherent characters and plot development, including progressively unhinged villains, while retaining faith in goodness and cops. As always, some events and dialogue mean more if you've read the previous novels. (The peek-thru covers on recent novels are either misaligned or pointless, but cannot detract from the excellence within.)
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Summary: Murder In the Midst of Mergers and Acquistions
Review: A bank¹s chairman of the board is killed while on a hunting trip with business associates. While initial hopes are for an accident, it¹s not. The banker has been murdered and has too many enemies to count. Just before his death, the banker was planning a merger of his bank with another. The move was extremely controversial and he only added to his list of enemies. As we meet the cast of characters it¹s easy to begin suspecting each one. They all seemed to have something to gain. Deputy Chief of the Minneapolis Police Department, Lucas Davenport is on the case. Davenport leads us from one suspect to another. Yet, there seems to be lots of suspicion to spread around. Then the suspects start being killed. The story moves into a new range of tense excitement. A surprising ending to a very well developed story! Keeps you going from start to finish.
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