Night Prey
Lucas Davenport 6
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4.5 • 16 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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 realises 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…
***WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT NIGHT PREY***
'Recommended for crime thriller fans. A must-read for Lucas Davenport devotees!' 5 star review
'What a tremendous read this book has been! Could hardly put it down' 5 star review
'Consistently avoids the routine or expected, with intelligence and surprising new wrinkles. Grabs you by the throat and never lets go' 5 star review
'A thoroughly enjoyable book, which I've just finished for the third or fourth time' 5 star review
'I found this to be one of the best in the Prey series with Lucas Davenport. Night Prey is a very well done page turner' 5 star review
***READERS LOVE THE PREY SERIES***
‘One of the great novelists of all time’ Stephen King
‘A series writer who reads like a breath of fresh air’ Daily Mirror
‘John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating the gut-level shocks of a good thriller’ New York Times Book Review
‘John Sandford has the Midas touch’ Huffington Post
‘Delivers twists to the very last sentence’ Daily Mail
‘Crime writer John Sandford is one of the best around’ Sun
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The pseudonymous Sandford (he's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp) keeps turning out better and better thrillers. In this sixth entry in his Prey series, streetwise Minneapolis deputy police chief Lucas Davenport is beleaguered by perplexing females. Charged with saving the political life of Rose Marie Roux, the ambitious police chief who has her eye on a Senate seat, he's given the assignment of tracking to ground the sex-crazed perpetrator of a series of murders of young women. Davenport's unwelcome colleague in this case is feminist Meagan Connell, an abrasive State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator who's obsessed with catching the killer before she dies of cancer. Also bedeviled by the ill-timed assignment of a new partner, a yuppie who was formerly assigned to the grade schools as ``Officer Friendly'' and who happens to be the husband of the mayor's niece, Davenport is additionally saddled with the mystifying death of an elderly woman who died rather conveniently, freeing some local hoods to profit from a real-estate scam. Juxtaposing the dark consciousness of the sex-fixated murderer against the narrative perspective of Davenport, Sandford builds a compelling counter-rhythm of suspense. The narrative is sensitively embued with Davenport's humaneness as, in awe, he watches Connell courageously fight to postpone her impending death. Yet, credibly flawed, the cop also displays a roving eye when he's momentarily distracted from his deep commitment to the lovely physician Weather Karkinnen by a beautiful and seductive TV anchor. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection; Mystery Guild alternate.
