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Loading... Naked Prey (2003)by John Sandford
None. What do you get when you combine two hanged murder victims, drug dealers, nuns, a Toyota chop-shop, kidnapped girls, corrupt law enforcement, a .22 packing muskrat trapping pre-teen with a smart mouth, and Lucas Davenport? A really, really good read. (  ) SunnySD | Apr 1, 2013 |  Davenport in his new role as a special trouble shooter assigned to cases too touchy or politically sensitive. This book introduces his soon-to-be adopted daughter. good read. couldn't put it down. (  ) magentaflake | Aug 27, 2012 | this book is suspenseful and creepiness in the storie. the killer is a monster. I was hook to the story from the begaining. I could not put it down. (  ) jbemrose | Aug 4, 2012 | This was a relatively calm version of Davenport--I wonder if Sandford was playing that as part of Lucas's depression? Heck, even I could tolerate Weather in this one! The new job aspect was interesting and also was a bit more low key than anticipated, but I think that was intentional. I do think the story was excellent, the sub plots and twists were interesting and realistic and gave a bit of depth to several characters. (  ) debavp | Nov 17, 2010 | EXCELLENT  DONNAMONTEIRO | Aug 15, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0425195449, Mass Market Paperback)When twelve-year-old muskrat trapper Letty West stumbles on the naked bodies of Jane Warr and Deon Cash, deep in the snowy woods of northern Minnesota, it's more than another bizarre episode in her already unusual life, as Lucas Davenport discovers in this new outing in Sandford's popular series featuring the midwestern lawman who moonlights as a computer game designer. Lucas has a new wife, a new baby, and a new job as a political troubleshooter for his old boss Rose Marie Roux, but the blunt-spoken Davenport's instructions to hush the racially charged implications of what looks suspiciously like a lynching won't deter him from whomever left Warr and Cash twisting in the wind. The well-peopled plot, involving a hot car ring, an ex-nun who smuggles cancer drugs over the Canadian border, and the usual internecine wranglings between the FBI, the local cops, and Davenport, races to a satisfying denouement, but this time it's a little girl with a difficult past and an uncertain future who lingers in the reader's mind. Fortunately, Sandford comes up with an ending that makes it all but certain that his fans will meet her again. Meanwhile, all the author's usual trademarks are on display--excellent writing, an interesting scenario, and terrific pacing. --Jane Adams(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:27:34 -0500) "In Naked Prey, John Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating for him a special troubleshooter job for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. In addition, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him; he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay - and he's waiting for the bill." "It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. "Lynching" is the word that everybody's trying not to say, but as Lucas begins to discover, in fact the murders are not what they appear to be, and they are not the end of it. There is worse to come - much, much worse."--BOOK JACKET.… (more) |
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