Certain Prey, John Sandford
Certain Prey, John Sandford
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Certain Prey

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 10 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/25/2012

Synopsis

Clara Rinker is twenty-eight, beautiful, charmingly southern—and the best hit woman in the business. She just goes about her business, collects her money, and goes home. Her latest hit sounds simple: a defense attorney wants a rival eliminated. No problem—until a witness survives. Clara usually knows how to deal with loose ends: cut them off, one by one, until they're all gone. This time, there’s one loose end that’s hard to shake.

Lucas Davenport has no idea of the toll this case is about to take on him. Clara knows his weak spots. She knows how to penetrate them, and how to use them. And when a woman like Clara has the advantage, no one is safe.

About John Sandford

American author, John Sanford (a pseudonym of John Roswell Camp) wrote thirty-five novels, all of which are on the New York Times bestsellers list in one way or another. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1944, where he spent much of his time with his Lithuanian grandparents. Their home was very primitive with an outside outhouse and a subsistence garden. Life was work centered on the farm with hay being bailed each summer to feed the various farm animals. Fruit trees were also in abundance on their property. It was a good place to grow up.

Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He also wrote two non-fiction books. The Eye and the Heart: The Water Colors of John Stuart Ingle, and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.

Camp was married to Susan Lee Jones, and has two children. Susan died in May 2007 of metastasized breast cancer, and he married again in 2013 to Michele Cook, a journalist and screenwriter. Camp is a dedicated painter and photographer also. He, however, does not show his paintings.

Camp's most prolific work is the Prey series of which there are currently twenty-five installments, running from 1989 - 2015.......the first being Rules of Prey and the most recent, Gathering Prey, which debuted on April 28, 2015. Other series include The Kidd Series, The Virgil Flowers Series, The Singular Menace Series, and other various books and short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on March 13, 2022

After reading a handful of books lately that didn't really meet my expectations, I decided to take no chances and read (again) a book I knew I'd love. This is the third time I've read Certain Prey and I enjoyed it even more this time around. My original review follows: This is probably my favorite bo......more

Goodreads review by Sheyla ✎ on November 11, 2020

Back in Lucas Davenport's world, two women are going to make his life quite interesting. The assassination of attorney Hale Allen's wife and subsequent police officer's death will bring Lucas and his squad to dig deeper. At first, everything points to Hale Allen but there is just one problem, the man......more

Goodreads review by John on January 25, 2019

The 10th Lucas Davenport novel is one of his most popular because, I believe, it is a study of opposites and contrasts. Davenport crosses more than a few lines in pursuit of a murderer and the professional killer she’s hired. Meanwhile the assassin is an extremely sympathetic character. When a compl......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on April 04, 2017

Lucas Davenport has always had a way with the ladies, but he’ll need a lot more than charm to deal with Carmel Loan and Clara Rinker. Carmel is a pit-bull of a criminal defense lawyer who gets what she wants, and what she wants includes her handsome and married co-worker Hale Allen. So Carmel reaches......more

Goodreads review by Werner on April 01, 2015

Note, April 1, 2015: I updated this review slightly just now, to correct a typo (misspelled word). This tenth novel in Sandford's popular Prey series is my first experience with his work; usually, I prefer to read a series in order, but the friend who recommended this one felt (probably correctly) th......more

Quotes

"Pulse-pounding, page-turning excitement."—Minneapolis Star Tribune"One of his best."—Orlando Sentinel

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