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Summary: Sandfort strikes again!!!
Review: Clara Rinkler is one of the best hitwoman in the business. Just doing what she was told to do, and then leaves with her money. But after a killing in Minnesota, a witness survies. Things start to happen and more and more loose ends pop up. There's only one way to get rid of them...
Davenport gets the case and soon knows he's up against one of the most intelligent killers he's ever had to face, and now she seems to be going after him. Rinkler wants to cut off the loose ends. All of them, without exceptions...
Once you open the book, you get attached to it. Try putting it away for a few minutes, and you're gonna ask yourself why you did that. It's a thriller from start to end and a real treat for ficionlovers. Few does it better than Sandford!!
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Summary: Need to cut down too much swearing
Review: I liked Prey books, but I think this will be my last book to read for good because the author keeps writing a lot of bad 4-letter words in his book almost like a movie, Scarface. I checked the next book, Easy Prey, and it's the same thing, so I won't bother reading it.
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Summary: Another Winner
Review: This book has some of the far-fetched, convenient 'coincidences' that in another author's hands, would have failed miserably. But not Sanford's. He works everything into the story so convincingly that instead of a wrap up at the end of the book to explain who done it and how, we get a comfortable and casual conclusion as Sanford coasts to the end of another winner. Of course a winner from Sanford is no longer expected on the onset of a new episode it is confirmed beforehand. With so many best selling authors, it is quite obvious that elements of the plot have been resolved in the author's head without being written down for the reader. John Sanford is so thorough in translating his thoughts to paper that we are not left with unexplained holes and more importantly not insulted by obligatory explanations to fill in said holes. What Sanford has done here is an amazing success. Clara Rinker is my favorite Sanford villain yet and one I actually didn't mind spending time with. I was actually pulling for her. The very elaborate murder series and ensuing cover up was so meticulous that it had me thinking Sanford should be careful before he becomes a consultant for hit men everywhere. All of the characters, including the villains, are fun. And the dialog... well if I start itemizing it would get repetitious. An outstanding piece of work.
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Summary: Who likes brutality?
Review: I'll be brief. This is the most brutal book I have ever read. I guess I'm not into brutality and torture. I quite reading at about page 150 because I'd had enough. I didn't really care if the two psychopaths described got caught or not. I don't see any reason for books like this in a country that should be interested in psychological improvement.
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Summary: My favorite of the Prey series...
Review: In most of the Prey books, I find myself despising the villain, while siding with Davenport, cheering him on as he tracks down the most evil of all killers. This book is different. I feel like I know Clara and Carmel personally. Like a couple of girlfriends involved in some shady stuff, who I still support whole heartedly. I felt Carmel's frenzy. I cheered for Clara. For once, I saw Lucas as a "bad guy". A different kind of Prey book, with the wonderful writing I've loved from John Sandford, ever since I picked up a worn, beat up copy of The Empress File at the used bookstore.
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Summary: Certainly Good!
Review: I havent read John Sandford for a while. The last book by him that I read did not do it for me. I wanted to read his latest and thought Certain Prey would be a good background. What an exciting read! Someone said it was far fetched? Excuse me? In this day and age? I like it when Lucas Davenport is challenged like this. This woman didnt cave! The tension was there thru the whole book and I lost a lot of sleep during the final chapters trying to finish it before I went to bed. This was a book constantly on the edge and I enjoyed it very much.
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Summary: WOW - Can I Please Have Another...?
Review: I've been on a PREY marathon for the past week, devouring every book I could get my paws on. CERTAIN PREY is my favorite. Lucas Davenport is a great protagonist, and his character continues to develop throughout the series (so it is worth it to the reader to start at the beginning, although not necessary). HOWEVER, Sandford focuses on the antagonists this time around: beautiful attorney Carmel Loan, and spunky hitwoman Clara Rinker. While Carmel falls into the usual "crazy" category, Rinker inhabits a realm of her own. She's efficient, practical-minded, and for once, a killer who isn't guided by voices, dark desires, or impulses. Her interactions with Davenport are the most thrilling in the book. I rooted for Rinker from front cover to back. And I want to see her again. Sandford has shown that sequels are possible in the PREY-world (EYES OF PREY and SILENT PREY). Let's hope he gifts us with another look at Clara Rinker.
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Summary: Something happened to Sandford...
Review: I've been an avid fan of John Sandford's books for a decade now and was sorry to see that Lucas Davenport seemed to have lost his edge. I was wary when I picked up the book: I didn't want to get disappointed but Sandford surprised the hell out of me.
His latest in the Prey series is his best yet. The story has frightening insights: Sandford was able to draw the profile of a memorable serial killer perfectly. His portrayal ranks amongst the very best ones I've ever read. But not only the story is superb. Something happened to Sandford. His prose whas never been extremely vivid or pewrful but in Certain Prey he not only exceeded himself but most of the genre. His style breathes it's so fresh. Not one bad sentence in his dialogues. His conversations with his bride-to-be Weather, his interactions with his peers are so vividly written that I felt for the first time: Lucas Davenport is a living, almost larger than life cop, not just an interesting character who seeks the advice of a nun, who drives a Porsche and who designs softwares.
If you haven't read Sandford and want to know him, this is the best book to start with.
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Summary: A superb example of the genre
Review: The first in the Prey series I ever read, and still possibly the best of them all.
Theres nothing here that you haven't seen before, so be warned - if you are after more cartoonish villains, more deeply flawed heros, sharper plot twists or more outrageous feats of linguistics, you will not find your desires here. There is no single cheap selling point here - no tag-line of "the most chilling villain since Hannibal Lector" to draw you in.
What there is instead is an engrossing plot, (centering on the murder of a wealthy socialite by a highly professional hit-woman), populated by some of the most rounded and likable characters seen in contemporary mystery fiction. Everything oozes quality, and the whole thing is so seamless that you just sit back and enjoy. It just feels effortless somehow, and that, for me, if the sign of great writing in whatever genre.
If you are new to the series, there are far worse places to start, and if you've read others, this is at least up with the best of them.
Bought out of despair in an airport departure lounge to fill in a 13 hour trans-atlantic flight, its now a little over two years later, and I've read the other dozen or so novels in the series, and I am waiting a little impatiently for the new one. This book is that good.
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Summary: ls
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book, pretty suspensful, it kept me wanting to rush to the next page to see what was going on. I did however, find a "blooper" and just wanted to point it out (I don't really have a reason for pointing it out, I just wanted to). I had to read this particular part over again because it confused me at first and then I realized it was a "blooper". On page 272 there are the two men that have come after Clara, one is sleeping on the couch, the other sitting in the chair. The one in the chair is a smoker and is not asleep. The book reads "then the man on the couch stood up, lit a cigarette..." If you re-read this part, you will see what I mean. Other than that, I really liked the book. First time reading this author.
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