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Summary: Major faux pas
Review: John Sanford is my all-time favorite writer. However, the editing has gone awry in this book. Hurried to meet deadlines? It appears 2 scenes were written in which Lucas Davenport takes Rinkers' phone call. Both are included in the book causing confusion and giving me difficulty in finishing it.
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Summary: another great effort
Review: Better than the last couple of Prey books, Sandford gave his readers a better look at on of the bad guys (o.k., bad girl) with a great following of Clara Rinker. The ending was easy to figure out, I was hoping for a darker ending, and one that could have had Lucas down deeper than he could have ever imagined. Unlike Parker, Sandford does not use tired outlines and tired dialog and wasted discriptions of details that do not matter with the story. Every book he has written, I have dropped everything to finish. This book is a page turner and one that will keep his fans happy.
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Summary: Back to quality
Review: One of the best in the Prey series. Much more believable protagonist then in Chosen Prey, may be because the reader can see how and why Carla is a psychopath. Plus the new characters in Davenports gang seem real. I also like being able to follow Carla as She evades both the law and the gang. If you have read and enjoyed the others in this series, you will enjoy this, plus the follow on books have been setup in a minor way. A friend I lent it to liked the way the reader is hooked from the beginning, without having to read 50 pages to figure out what is going on. She enjoyed and had never read any of the others in the series.
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Summary: CLARA RINKER IS BACK AGAIN!!!
Review: I absolutly loved "Certain Prey" the 10th novel in the Prey Series. "Mortal Prey" is the 13th novel in the Prey Series and it is as good, if not better than "Certain Prey."
A woman who is a hired hit-man, or should I say hit-person to be politically correct...Clara Rinker is one of those characters that you read about and can't forget because of her lack of respect for life. This time around in "Mortal Prey" Clara looses one person she would have loved and protected, her unborn baby. Her boyfriend is taken down by a hit man and Clara goes down with him but survives, yet looses her unborn baby. Needless to say we find out early in the novel who the hit-man was really after....
Without giving the whole story away Clara gets really mad and goes on a killing spree. Enters, Lucas Davenport detective.
This is another brilliant novel in the Prey series! John Sanford has done it again.HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! Just a note. You really should read the series from the very beginning to give this book justice. It would be hard to understand what is going on, especially in Lucas Davenports (the main character) life and other main characters in the book. This is the best detective series I have ever read! You won't be disappointed!
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Summary: As Good As It Gets
Review: This is one of those rare series which just gets better and better. I'd say, beyond a doubt, that this was the best one yet. Lucas has evolved from a borderline, rather unlikeable, psychotic in the early books into an extremely likeable, almost sympathetic character, and his detecting ability makes him seem almost Holmesian at times. I also really liked Sandford's characterization of Clara Rinker. I just wish there was some way he could have created a more Daniel-Silvaesque ending for this rivalry. A great, great read.
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Summary: CLASSIC PREY
Review: If you truly like The Prey Series, you will enjoy this book. Once again, John Sanford has delivered a page turner, with so many great characters--he even brings back the FBI agents Malone and Mallard. The story line is believable and you end up with a grudging respect for Clara Rinker. Lucas of course, outsmarts her in the end. Also, leaves clues for his next PREY book with Lucas in another career. I hope that Mr. Sanford has started on the next one.
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Summary: What readers pray for
Review: The action starts on page one and you are caught up and not released until the last page. Sandford is at the top of his game. Lucas is tougher than ever and his opponent is talented, sympathetic and, at the same time, cold blooded and ruthless. Put aside your weekend plans, this will entertain you.
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Summary: One of the best in the "Prey" series.
Review: Most of John Sandford's "Prey" series work by identifying the killer early and then following the story on both the lines of Lucas Davenport and of the killer, as they plot and counterplot against one another. Sandford returns to the formula here, and it works well because Lucas's antagonist is Clara Rinker, the professional hitwoman from his earlier books. Sandford is careful not to make her a two-dimensional sociopath -- indeed, she is so well rounded that at times the reader can forget that many of the people she has killed in her career were completely innocent. For most of the book, this is not true as Rinker goes after the crime bosses for whom she has worked in the past. The book begins with Rinker almost getting killed, and her decision that the people she worked for (all mob connected) are behind it sets her off to eliminating them, none of whom is too sympathetic. It is a mistake to root for Rinker because a few innocent people are unfortunate enough to wander in to her way, and the result is not good for them. Rinker is smart, and her killing of well protected hoods who know she is coming for them is for the most part plausible. Only one of the killings, involving a device that has been used in a well known real-life assasination, seems unlikely to have been successful. All in all, she is such a strong character that this book seems to be more hers than Davenport's. Davenport is one of the few people to have seen Rinker and lived, and so the FBI brings him to St. Louis to help catch her. All but a few chapters take place outside of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, most of the familiar characters in the Davenport series aren't present, but Rinker more than makes up for them. Read closely, some of the deductions that Davenport comes up with are a little contrived -- all he does is show up from out of town, talk to a few local cops, and he is ahead of the FBI. However, the dialog is as well written as ever, and the dry humor still there. And there are a couple of nice twists in the plot at the end. I found the last two books in the "Prey" series to be weak; I thought that Sandford may have run out of ideas of what to do with Davenport, and have read some interviews in which he expressed frustration with the series. Mortal Prey is a return to the stong, earlier novels. There is life in Davenport yet.
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Summary: great police procedural
Review: Lucas Davenport is going through several changes in his life right now. Not only is he building his dream home, but also he and a pregnant Weather are planning their wedding with a new administration coming into office. Lucas, a political appointee, plans to follow his boss to state law enforcement. It almost comes as a relief when he learns that one of the perpetrators who once outwitted him is back in town. Lucas throws himself head first into the apprehension of hit woman Clara Rinker. She was retired and living down in Mexico when her former syndicate employees order a hit on her but instead kill her lover and their unborn child. She intends to avenge the deaths and she won't let anyone stop her, including the relentless Lucas Davenport. John Sanford does for police procedurals what John Grisham did for legal thrillers. The action starts on the very first page and continues at warp speed until the last page is turned. One watches the fascinating Clara Rinker, a black widow spider, totally enthralled yet repulsed at the same time. MORTAL PREY is definitely the best book in a strong and series. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: MORTAL PREY
Review: M ost satisfying book, yet again, by John Sandford.
O ld enemy is reintroduced in the form of Clara Rinker.
R inker narrowly escapes an attempt on her life
T he FBI wants to find her and recruits Lucas Davenport.
A ll the while, Rinker's plans for revenge gather pace.
L ucas jumps at the chance to lock horns with an old foe. P urposeful and ruthless, Rinker is a formidable enemy
R equiring Lucas to be at his most resourceful best.
E xtremely enjoyable story that focuses on the thrill of the hunt
Y et offsets it with Lucas' upcoming wedding plans.
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