![]() 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. 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. 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"). 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. 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. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.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. This is where Sandford's beautifully honed skills at creating suspense really kick in: he keeps us fascinated as Davenport, revitalized by an affair with a jaunty colleague, tries to turn what we all know into hard evidence. About halfway through the book we find out who the real killer is, just a few pages before Lucas does, and that villain is a masterful creation, an example of the banality of evil worthy of Hannah Arendt. Any of Kresge's four fellow hunters-all employees at his Polaris Bank-could have shot him, and all had motives, as did his almost ex-wife. ![]() This accounts for the depression that dogs him as he is sent to investigate the killing of top banking executive Daniel Kresge in a hunting lodge north of Minneapolis. Davenport and his fellow cops are still recovering from the deadly revenge scheme that maimed them in Sudden Prey, which seems to have ended the relationship between Lucas and his doctor lady friend. Fans of the series will be glad to hear that it's full of smart suspense and deduction as well as explosive action. John Sandford is back with his dapper, dangerous Minneapolis deputy police chief Lucas Davenport for a ninth "preyer" meeting. John Sandford has written extraordinary thrillers before, but nothing to top the startling twists and unrelenting suspense of Secret Prey. Sometime soon, unless he could stop it, there would be another death, and then still another, and Davenport couldn't help but wonder if maybe this time, the final death might not be his own. He had felt this way not long before, sensed the curling of an indefinable evil, and not only had it nearly gotten him killed, it had lost him his fiancee, who?d never been able to recover from the violence of the encounter. There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murder of a single man. If he read it in a book, Lucas Davenport thought, it would seem like one of those classic murder mysteries, the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case with a little speech.īut it wasn't going to be that easy, he knew. ![]() The company president lay on the cold forest floor, his eyes lifeless, his orange hunting jacket pierced by a rifle bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death. Secret Prey is the ninth literary fiction book in the Lucas Davenport series by author John Sandford. The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range.
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