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Summary: Engaging, with a great ending!
Review: This book had one of the most satisfying endings of any book I've read in a long time!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book is a perfect example of John Sandford's Prey series. Plot twists, subplots, and violence abound. Unblelievable ending... Just a great book.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book is a perfect example of John Sandford's Prey series. Plot twists, subplots, and violence abound. Unblelievable ending... Just a great book.
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Summary: 4 1/2 Stars!
Review: This is only my 2nd Prey novel, and this one is a hum-dinger! I couldn't put it down. His books are like candy, or those chips you can't eat just one of. I definitely intend to read more of these. If you have a long plane ride ahead of you, this one will keep you highly entertained.
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Summary: The best Prey book yet!!!
Review: This is the best Sandford book to date. I couldn't put it down, read it from cover to cover the day I bought it. It's a page turning, nail biter from beginning to end
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Summary: quite the thriller!
Review: This is the seventh in a series of novels featuring Lucas Davenport, a tough police detective in Minnesota. It is the third and definitely the best that I have read in the series.
Davenport is more than a detective, he also designs role-playing and computer simulation games, a hobby that blossomed into a multi-million dollar business. The twist in this plot is that the bad guy is a psycho who happens to love role-playing games. He kidnaps one of his former therapists to fulfill some of his twisted fantasies and then gets a bigger thrill when he discovers that the designer of some his favorite games is on the case. (Imagine a 'Dungeons and Dragons' player matching wits against Gary Gygax and you've got the scenario)
This is really quite a good thriller - it was very difficult to put the book down while reading the last 75 pages.
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Summary: The best yet?
Review: We immediately know who the villain of this story is (in Winter Prey we had no idea), so the focus is on an intense series of police procedural moves--eventually reckless ones--in a desperate full court press to pin down the kidnapper. He really is a smart fellow, who glides invisibly around the police traps, much as his chapters slide past the cops'. One of the scariest things about Sandford's stories is how often the victims aren't doing anything stupid, just what you or I'd do, like picking up your kids after school. Unusually, there are three views of the crime in this story: the kidnapper's, Chief Davenport's, and, for once, the victims'--who aren't immediately killed off. Too, the story ranges all over the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, with lots of fresh air chases of the elusive madman. Sandford misses a rare trick by not pushing, after setting up, the babbling psychotherapist, Dr. Girdler, as another suspect in collusion with the kidnapper. Davenport's romantic entaglements are much subdued: he's finally gotten serious with one woman. The use of lucky coincidences, or intuitions on Davenport's part, is more obvious than usual, but powers the bombshell twists and revelations that mean it's awfully hard to put this story down before it's time to get up for work again. I don't usually read a series without taking a break for something different, but that's less the case with Sandford; glad I didn't discover him until he already had several books out: it's so hard waiting a year for the next.
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Summary: WOW WOW WOW!
Review: What a book! What a writer! Just when I think that I could be a writer myself, an author like this comes along. "Mind Prey" is brilliant, it kept me up all night! Sanford is in the league of Lehane & Pottinger, I will definately be getting the rest of the series.The characters are believable, the plot is great, the ending is sensational! I have read many many crime/suspense fiction and was expecting this to be another who-done-it with a double agent in the police force, as there usually is. But, this novel kept me hooked right until the end. I especially enjoyed the victim's perspective as that is rarely seen in crime fiction. If you are looking for a great book to read and are tired of the usual ones, you'll find it with Mind Prey!
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