Silken Prey, John Sandford
Silken Prey, John Sandford
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Silken Prey

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 12 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/07/2013

Synopsis

Murder. Scandal. Politics. And one billionaire heiress so dangerous in so many ways.

An explosive Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

All hell has broken loose in the capital. An influential state senator has been caught with something very, very nasty on his office computer. The governor can’t believe it—the senator’s way too smart for that, even if he is from the other party. Something’s not right.

As Davenport investigates, the trail leads to a political fixer who has disappeared, then—troublingly—to the Minneapolis police department itself, and most unsettling of all, to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons in manipulation. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work—along with the money, ruthlessness, and cold-blooded will to make it happen.

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

AudiobooksNow review by Diana on 2014-08-02 09:16:48

First time with this author and narrator. Absolutely loved it! Narrators voice perfect for this story. Political intrigue and murder suspense. Wonderful! Look forward to more from this author.

Goodreads review by Kemper

*Update 10/14/16 - Three years ago John Sandford published this book which features a wealthy political candidate for a major office campaigning while suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder. Here's the Mayo Clinic's definition of that condition: "Narcissistic personality disorder is a men......more

Goodreads review by Sheyla ✎

This series just keeps on giving. Giving me anxiety that is. Is Lucas going to be hurt? Not again, please! Is he going to lose his job? I think so. Plenty of foreshadowing. Is he going to find the killers on time? I sure hope so. Lucas Davenport, BCA agent receives a call from the Governor of Minnesota.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen

Another great Davenport book! There has never been a bad one. They've never slipped below "good". Most are "very good". Some are "great". That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!......more

Goodreads review by James

A tight race for a U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota is headed toward a nail-biter of a finish when a campaign aide accidentally discovers child porn on the office computer of the Republican incumbent, Porter Smalls. Smalls is obviously toast, and it seems certain that the discovery will lead to a vic......more

Goodreads review by Alex is The Romance Fox

Lucas Davenport, detective extraordinaire is off again on another quest to bringing the bad guys down!!! Despite the long going series and some hit and misses, this was one of the better ones. The storyline revolves around a political campaign in Lucas's city. Political intrigue, murder, cold-hearted......more

Quotes

Praise for STOLEN PREY:

“Sandford at his brilliant best.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer

“The climax will have you holding your breath—and the book’s very last line will leave you hoping for more.”—St. Louis Post–Dispatch

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