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Summary: Even better than the first one!
Review: ...but not a bad book overall. It's just a little weak follow-up to "Rules" and I was left a little disappointed. Luckily, Sanford followed it up with the one-two punch of "Eyes of Prey" and "Silent Prey".
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Summary: Maybe it was the abridgement of the book on tape format...
Review: ...I found the over-arching plot to be a stretch. Two Indian medicine men (two cousins called "the Crows") inspire a murder spree of people who have wronged Native Americans across the country in an attempt to draw out the Attorney General, a truly despicable man, so that they can kill him. I think it would have been much more believable if Sandford had made it a more Minneapolis-based character, such as the head of the Minnesota State Police.
That being said, the gunfight scenes were well-done, especially the one in the hotel room in the dark.
The reading was done by Ken Howard (the coach on CBS's "White Shadow") and he did a good job with voice characterizations and reading with the proper drama. However, at times the editing was a little weak - I sometimes had to turn my stereo up and down to make up for louder and quieter parts of the tape.
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Summary: Homicidal Loves
Review: I enjoyed this book more than the others in the Prey series because I am a Native American, and my last name is Love. The characters may have been homicidal, but they also had pride and character. Lucas Davenport is very intense and a bit homicidal himself. Excellent thriller series, Sandford never weakens, his stories are always strong, intense and complete
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Summary: The flaws in the series start to show
Review: I read 3 books in this series before I decided to start from the beginning. As with Rules of Prey, Shadow Prey is fun to read. Sandford leads Lucas and friends on a believable pursuit of the killers. Nothing comes easy as Lucas tries to get to the bottom of a group of Indians who are killing people who have harmed Indians in the past.
After reading five or six novels in the series, I decided to voice my complaints in this review. I still plan on reading the entire series, but some things have got on my nerves. First, Sandford reveals Lucas' age to be 41 (probably real close to Sandford's age at the time.) Forty one is fine, but in current novels that makes Lucas in his late 50s. If this series is going to continue, Lucas needs to stay young.
I've accepted the fact that Lucas has a foul mouth, dropping constant f-bombs. But does every single cop, or person for that matter talk that way. In Sandford's books, every single character, except for the nun, cusses like a sailor. And Lucas and Jennifer even cussed around their baby. Obviously everyone doesn't talk like this, and even people who cuss all the time don't want their kids to talk that way.
Third, Lucas says he just "loves women" and therefore can't keep his hands off them. He can't resist cheating on the mother of his child with a married woman NYC cop Lily Rothenberg and then going right back to the mother of his child and sleeping with her. Lily shows some guilt in having an affair yet goes out of her way to cheat on her husband. What a woman! Actually, all of this womanizing by Lucas doesn't bother me too much, except for the fact that we don't know why he does it. Why does this 41 year old man still think he's a 25 year old batchelor sleeping with every woman he can?
Finally, all the cops seem the same and run together. They all talk alike and do the same things, and there isn't any characterization to set them apart.
On this book specific, Sandford draws from his knowledge of Indian culture to write some Indians as bad guys. Probably the weakest bad guys of the series so far. Yet their final motive is just, and none of the cops actually mention that the Indians' ultimate goal was more than just terror.
I recommend this book and the entire series. But be prepared for a lot of bad language and loose morals.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: If you like the Prey books, you'll love it, great Davenport series- it's a page turner, cannot put it down!
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Summary: Second in Prey series
Review: In his second outing, Lucas Davenport hunts a family of disgruntled Native Americans who have big plans for a political bad guy (who really does deserve to die.) He also meets a new woman, and you may find yourself not liking him very much afterwards. However, by introducing us to the many faults of Davenport, Sandford goes a long way in making him even more real. And, if you keep reading the Prey series (and you should) you will find yourself taking satisfaction in Lucas' maturation process as much as in his hunting down the bad guys. Read this book, and keep reading the Prey series
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Summary: Early Prey = Good Prey
Review: In this second "Prey" novel, the Crows and their son, Shadow Love, are out to settle an old score with the Director of the FBI for sins he committed years ago. Lucas Davenport, Minneapolis-St. Paul detective and new father, is assigned to work with attractive Lily Rothenberg, an NYPD detective, as they hunt a killer who uses an obsidian knife with special meaning and power to Native Americans. John Sandford creates a powerful, action-packed thriller that deftly combines the two plot lines as he continues to build the strong and complex character of Lucas Davenport in this second Prey novel and sequel to "Rules Of Prey". Highly recommended (especially if you've never read any of Sandford's or John Camp's earlier work).
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Summary: A flawed yet solid entry
Review: In this second installment in the incomparable Prey series, Lucas Davenport is back investigating a string of murders thought to be committed by one Native American family. First the sleazy owner of an apartment complex is found with his throat slashed, then a probation officer, then a welfare worker, and so on. It seems the family has their eye on the biggest prize of them all: the director of the FBI, whom they have a long-held grudge against. All the murders are committed with the same obsidian bladed knife. The action is well paced, with breaks along the way, allowing readers to catch their breath. A sharp-tongued love interest for Davenport arrives, and soon she too is in danger in a very explosive climax. Sandford delivers yet again with a very real and believable killer, Shadow Love, the loose cannon whom no one can quite control. The characterization is superb, as it always is with Sandford. While I thought the endless stakeouts tended to drag on without going anywhere in particular, I would still recommend this book. The second half of the book is incredible and more than makes up for the muddled begginning.
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Summary: Indian prey
Review: John Sandford's Minneapolis cop, Lucas Davenport, can't decide if he wants to stay with news-woman Jennifer and their baby-girl Sarah. When politicians start to get killed by Native Americans, it soon becomes clear, that something more than "just" random killings is going on. When a high profile politician from New York is killed, and it looks like the killer is headed towards Minneapolis, female cop Lily Rothenburg is sent there to crack the case. Lucas Davenport quickly finds himself very attracted to Lily, and while they try to solve the case, and more people gets killed, they also start an affair.
In the shadows, throughout the book, lurks a scary Native American called Shadow Love, and his Fathers, the Crows, who are the masterminds behind the killings, which are parts of a much greater scheme.
The stpry does not flow as easily as the other books by John Sandford, and I was in fact a bit disappointed by this one. The last 150 pages are quite good, though, but it does take a while before the story gets going. The main plot, served already at the first pages, is however interesting, and it is hard not to develop some sort of sympathy with the Crows and their case, regardless of their methods. There is a lot of politics in this book, and that may have been why I wasn't that excited about it.
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Summary: Good action, story and suspense. Lucas is still a dog!
Review: Lucas is the cowboy after the indians. Indians making a statement by death. Death to a number of notable figures from a slumlord to a judge and a welfare supervisor. Lucas is hot on their tail. But of course, he is also in the middle of his own drama. Lily, the sexy NY cop he can't keep his hands off of. Even though his girlfriend Jennifer holds the key to his heart and his infant daughter.
The story line is fine and keeps you riveted. I think we could do without all the heated encounters between Lucas and his women.
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