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Loading... Wicked Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 19) (original 2009; edition 2010)by John Sandford (Author)
Work InformationWicked Prey by John Sandford (2009)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Psychological Picked this up after I saw the TV movie for [b:Certain Prey|889785|Certain Prey (Lucas Davenport, #10)|John Sandford|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179205249s/889785.jpg|2315985] and all of the copies the library had of that title were checked out. The first quarter of the book was promising, although I thought the author did a bit of over-describing and there seemed to be a few too many plot threads. A couple of things finally made me put it down. The plot involving his adopted daughter did not ring true. I 'get' the proposition that she's this mighty and independent young woman. But she's supposed to be only 14 and didn't even come close to acting it. In any other Minnesota family she would have been more than grounded. It also felt like we were almost spending more time with the multiple antagonists, rather than with Lucas Davenport's efforts to track them down. I got tired of wasting my time with those lowlifes and started skipping pages, always a bad sign. I finally threw in the towel about the middle of the book. I may come back and try another Lucas Davenport title, perhaps [b:Certain Prey|889785|Certain Prey (Lucas Davenport, #10)|John Sandford|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179205249s/889785.jpg|2315985] (although the movie was not that great, either). Davenport does seem like a strong and smart character.
Against all odds, author Sandford meshes all three plots into a single, wham-bam tale. Yes, the tale arches way over the top. But it'll pull Sanford's legion of fans along. Distinctions
Danger stalks Lucas Davenport at work and all too close to home when petty thief and paraplegic Randy Whitcomb targets Lucas's pretty fourteen-year-old adopted daughter and a young man with the .50 caliber sniper rifle and the right-wing-crazy background roams through the city filled with the most powerful politicians on earth . . . . No library descriptions found.
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