Secret Prey, John Sandford
Secret Prey, John Sandford
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Secret Prey

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Stephen Lang

Abridged: 5 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/14/2004


Synopsis

A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this routine murder investigation is about to turn into something different. A cat-and-mouse game with a killer who does not hesitate to take the fight to Lucas himself. And those he loves. . . .

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 Sheyla ✎ on October 18, 2020

A nice addition to this series. It’s always great to see someone challenging Lucas’s brain. The book begins with the death of a man during a hunting trip. The question is Was this an accident or was the man the target? The answer is simple. Four individuals benefit from the man’s death. The dead......more

Goodreads review by James on April 02, 2013

This is one of the best books in John Sandford's Prey series, featuring Minneapolis police detective Lucas Davenport, with a complex, intelligent plot and a clever, unique villain who pushes Davenport to the limit. As the book opens, a wealthy banker, who is about to become even wealthier due to the......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on April 14, 2015

If a CEO gets killed in the forest and no one is around to hear him fall, does he make a sound? Five top executives from a bank have gone into the woods on a deer hunting trip, but only four come out alive after someone tried to make a murder look like an accidental shooting. The dead man was the pre......more

Goodreads review by Damo on September 15, 2024

The world of finance is the unlikely catalyst for multiple murders in the 9th book featuring Minneapolis police detective Lucas Davenport. This is another dark thriller that features a cunning killer with endless resources and who is prepared to take on the police personally. When a bank’s chairman i......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on March 04, 2019

John Sandford does Agatha Christie, and pretty damn well. I feel the need to pass on a life tip (now sadly useless) to the murder victim of this book. If you are masterminding a bank merger that will make you a multimillionaire while worsening the lives and careers of almost everyone else around you,......more


Quotes

Praise for John Sandford’s Prey Novels
 
“Relentlessly swift...genuinely suspenseful...excellent.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“Sandford is a writer in control of his craft.”—Chicago Sun-Times
 
“Excellent...compelling...everything works.”—USA Today
 
“Grip-you-by-the-throat thrills...a hell of a ride.”—Houston Chronicle
 
“Crackling, page-turning tension...great scary fun.”—The New York Daily News
 
“Enough pulse-pounding, page-turning excitement to keep you up way past bedtime.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
“One of the most engaging characters in contemporary fiction.”—Detroit News
 
“Positively chilling.”—St. Petersburg Times
 
“Just right for fans of The Silence of the Lambs.”—Booklist
 
“One of the most horrible villains this side of Hannibal.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
 
 “Ice-pick chills...excruciatingly tense...a double-pumped roundhouse of a thriller.”—Kirkus Reviews