Night Prey, John Sandford
Night Prey, John Sandford
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Night Prey

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/08/2011


Synopsis

A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford.

A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford

He was the best at what he did. A chameleon, invisible... uncatchable. For how could you catch an invisible man

After a two-year break, Lucas Davenport is back on the force and his first job is dealing with state investigator Meagan Connell. Determined to prove a link between a series of particularly brutal attacks on women, Meagan is struggling to be taken seriously. The cops are wary of her, the public thinks she's too political, the feminists thinks she's sold out.

But the more Lucas looks into it, the more he suspects that Meagan is right to fear the worst. Somewhere out there, spying on his unknowing victims at their most intimate moments, lurks a killer of unusual skill and savagery—and he’s only just getting warmed up…

***READERS LOVE THE PREY SERIES***

“John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating the gut-level shocks of a good thriller.” —The New York Times Book Review

“The best Lucas Davenport story so far. The man has a fine touch for outlaws.” —Stephen King on Golden Prey

“Sandford’s trademark blend of rough humor and deadly action keeps the pages turning until the smile-inducing wrap-up, which reveals the fates of a number of his quirky, memorable characters.” —Publishers Weekly on Golden Prey

“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

“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

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 Heidi on June 23, 2024

As Mr. Sandford’s writing grows stronger, so does my infatuation with Davenport. In some ways, he reminds me of another lead police investigator I’ve also grown fond of, Reebus of Ian Rankin’s great series. Both are slightly broken, despise the politics of the job (although Davenport has jumped in wi......more

Goodreads review by James on July 13, 2024

As is often the case in this series, Lucas Davenport, the police detective protagonist, is confronted by a particularly clever and chilling antagonist. Here it's a creep named Koop who, over a long period of time, has been kidnapping and savagely killing women in several jurisdictions around the gre......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on August 03, 2016

Unlike most of the Prey books, this one starts out with a man in love. Unfortunately, Koop is a cat burglar with severe psycho-sexual problems that cause him to occasionally kidnap a woman and gut her like a fish. So when he sees beautiful Sara Jensen sleeping during one his break-ins, Koop instantl......more

Goodreads review by Sheyla ✎ on February 12, 2020

Lucas Davenport is now officially back as a cop working under new leadership. The new police chief Rose Marie Roux needs help with a possible serial killer. Megan Connell is a Minnesota State investigator who believes multiple women have been murdered, at least one every year. The unsub's name is......more

Goodreads review by Alex on July 02, 2021

Overhead, above the new green of the elms, nighthawks made their skizzizk cries, their wing-flashes like the silver bars of new first-lieutenants. Spring was shading into summer. The daffodils and tulips were gone, while the petunias spread across the beds like Mennonite quilts. This is the second of......more