Extreme Prey, John Sandford
Extreme Prey, John Sandford
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Extreme Prey

Bestseller

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 11 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/26/2016


Synopsis

An extraordinary Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.
 
After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation—no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. “Should be fun!” he says, and it kind of is—until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor...and anyone who gets in the way.

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 Kemper on November 07, 2019

The more things change the more they stay the same. For example, Lucas Davenport may not be a cop anymore, but that doesn’t mean that he’s done chasing killers. Lucas got fed up with certain elements of his old gig as a state investigator in Minnesota so he quit, but he’s still the first call that th......more

Goodreads review by James on April 06, 2017

Following the events of the twenty-fifth book in this series, Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport decided to hang up his spurs and leave his job at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. For the first time in years, and for the first time in this long-running series, Lucas is no longer a lawman......more

Goodreads review by Sheyla ✎ on June 28, 2022

Lucas Davenport is not a cop anymore! Yes, Lucas decided at the end of the last book to quit the Minnesota BCA. He hates politics and paperwork. What he loves is the hunt and catching the bad guys. Out of a job, he is spending his time watching the renovation of his cabin (and driving the contractor......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 27, 2016

I’ve been a long time admirer of Sandford’s work. A former Pulitzer prize winning journalist, he has written over 40 crime fiction books, many featuring Minnesota crime stopper Lucas Davenport. I find the quality and feel of his books to be comparable to Michael Connelly, in that over time the lead......more


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Praise for Extreme Prey

“The latest Prey novel is exciting, politically astute, and ultimately terrifying. Sandford and Davenport are in top form.” Booklist, starred review
 
“Add a hammock under a shady tree, and you've got a quintessential summer read.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune
 
“Sandford, as always, sets a heart-pounding pace. He permeates his work with wit, an engaging hero readers have come to cherish and a cat-and-rat match that in this case draws on the streak of violence that for years has left a bloody stain on the nation. Timely and troubling, it’s a must-read for thriller devotees and political junkies.” Richmond Times Dispatch

“This guy Sandford is good.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Praise for John Sandford

“It appears there is no limit to John Sandford’s ability to keep new breath and blood flowing into his Lucas Davenport series. This is a series you must be reading if you are not already.”
— Bookreporter.com
 
“If you haven’t read Sandford yet, you have been missing one of the great summer-read novelists of all time.” —Stephen King
 
“Sandford has always been at the top of any list of great mystery writers. His writing and the appeal of his lead character are as fresh as ever.” —The Huffington Post
 
“Sandford is consistently brilliant.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer