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Summary: AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!
Review: John Sandford's "Prey" series just gets better and better as it goes. Secret Prey was a great who-dun-it, and an exciting read, as well as witty and funny. I don't know if I can wait a whole year to read the next one. Hurry up Mr. Sandford! I'm getting impatient.
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Summary: Lucas Davanport at his best!!
Review: I've enjoyed all the 'prey' books and this new addition was the best yet. John Sanford includes everything in his novels, I find it very hard to put the book down. Lucas is one of the most developed characters and I hope he finds happiness soon, maybe with the new love in his life.
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Summary: Well worth the wait!
Review: Like Frank Sinatra, Lucas Davenport ages beautifully. This is the very best "preyer" book since "Rules of Prey." A terrific villain, Lucas's skill, optimum doses of sex and humor, as well as the most hilarious opium ring ever busted -- wow, I think John Sandford no longer has to share favorite author status with Michael Connelly and Thomas Perry.
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Summary: John Sandford's writing is like a great wine ...
Review: This is, indeed, the best Prey novel yet. Lucas, is awesome, as always. Don't start reading it unless you have nothing else to do that day. Riveting, sexy, funny, and poignant. One wants to read faster, but yet you don't want it to end.
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Summary: The Best of the Best in the "Prey" Series!
Review: Sandford has outdone himself. I finished this book in one sitting and I'm ready to start over with it again tomorrow... For shear escapism combining just the right elements of unspeakable terror, sex and humor, this one cannot be topped. Lucas Davenport is the perfect hero in a riveting plot...
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Summary: Greatest Prey yet
Review: Polaris Bank CEO Daniel Skresge is a wealthy man, who knows he will soon be even richer when his bank is absorbed by the larger Midland Holding, a conglomerate with six-hundred financial institutions. The merger will leave many of the Polaris Bank employees, some of them being long timers, out of work. Daniel, undisturbed by this minor detail, is currently enjoying a hunting trip with four of his top executives. The four executives accompanying their boss on the hunting trip are well aware of the merger and the potential impact on their livelihood. They carry state-of-the-art rifles that will insure a clean kill(of a deer). Ultimately Kresge is shot and killed by someone he recognizes. Lucas Davenport, a man struggling with depression, is assigned the case. He investigates the four survivors and quickly concludes each one had the means, motive and opportunity to commit the crime. As the foursome jocky to replace Kresge, another murder occurs. Lucas knows that he must act quickly or several more deaths will ensue. After an octet of "Prey" novels, readers would probably expect the series to become stale. However, in the hands of writer extraodinaire John Sandford, SECRET PREY, turns out to be his best work to date. The hero (anti-hero?) is drawn to perfection while his virtues and flaws make him into one of the better recurring characters to grace a police procedural series. The support cast adds humor and realism to an exciting story line. However, the best part of the novel is Lucas' realistic bouts with depression that is often commonly found among law enforcement officials. This book has heart, action, and moxie that, by the end of the story, leaves the audience eagerly awaiting the next best seller in this marvelous series. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Better than the last "Prey" novel, but he's done better.
Review: Secret Prey is a good yarn and better than Mr. Sandford's last "prey" outing, but I don't think its up to the standard he set in Rules of Prey and Eyes of Prey and one or two of the other earlier Davenport tales. Much like in Night Prey, Davenport doesn't seem to be doing much in the first half of this new book. Things keep happening around him and it seems like he's just a spectator. The second half of the book is much better. In some of the earlier stories Davenport learns who the bad guy is earlier on in the story and it was great riding along while Lucas matched the bad guy wit for wit, smarts for smarts and viciousness for viciousness. Watching him plot the demise of the villains was more exciting. The last couple novels I think were a little more tame. None of this means I didn't like Secret Prey. I did and I'll probably read it once or twice more (as I have with all his other stories) in the year or so I have to wait for Mr. Sandford's next gem.
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Summary: 9th for Davenport - slow start, better ending
Review: If you sat at your Mac trying to write a novel, what names might you give your characters? If you sat there too long, you might name one "Del", and add "Capslock" as a surname. This is perhaps what Sandford has done, but if you can get away from the clunky names, chances are you'll find this an enjoyable book. At times a slow read, it picks up the pace in the second half - although it's not too difficult to guess "whodunit", the question remains how many more characters will be killed off, and why? Sandford leads the reader down a bit of a blind alley in the first few chapters, but any more than that would give the story away...
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Summary: A master of the police procedural
Review: John Sanford's Lucas Davenport is a classic cop. Tough, street-smart, emotionally conflicted; an sllightly more than ordinary guy doing his job.
Davenport is a Minneapolis detective. The "Prey" series runs 13 or more titles and everyone of them is good reading. They all begin with -- not surprisingly -- a murder. This time it's the Chairman of a bank on the verge of a merger. Some of the executives would be out in the cold -- some might find themselves far wealthier. The executives, several of whom were with the Chairman, when he was shot out of a deer stand are, of course, prime suspects.
And so it begins: Davenport on the trail of a smart killer, one who it turns out has been murdering for a long time.
Twists and turns galore, but Sandford never loses his way. Enjoyable reading for those with a liking for police procedurals.
Jerry
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Summary: 9th for Davenport - slow start, better ending
Review: If you sat at your Mac trying to write a novel, what names might you give your characters? If you sat there too long, you might name one "Del", and add "Capslock" as a surname. This is perhaps what Sandford has done, but if you can get away from the clunky names, chances are you'll find this an enjoyable book. At times a slow read, it picks up the pace in the second half - although it's not too difficult to guess "whodunit", the question remains how many more characters will be killed off, and why? Sandford leads the reader down a bit of a blind alley in the first few chapters, but any more than that would give the story away...
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