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Secret Prey118 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 1999

How far would someone go for power and prestige?
The question of how far a person would go to gain power and prestige, especially when that person came from a background of abuse, is answered in this terrific continuation of the "Prey" series by John Sanford, featuring the ever-resourceful Lucas Davenport. When an apparent hunting accident turns into a murder investigation, things begin to heat up as an anonymous tipster points out a pattern ... 		  
  







  
  
Hidden Prey94 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2005

International Intrigue in Iron Range
When a Russian worker on a grain ship is killed near Duluth, at first it seems random. However, soon it comes out that the man is not who he appears to be - he is the son of one of the New Russian wealthy class, an oil tycoon, and his father wants to know why he was killed, and why he was presenting himself under an assumed name (not to mention carrying several other sets of identification with ... 		  
  







  
  
Mortal Prey115 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2003

COULD NOT PUT DOWN
I recently finished Mortal Prey and it was a great read from first page to last. Clara Rinker is a great character. Would make an exciting movie; how would Cathy Bates be as Clara?? 		  
  







  
  
Eyes of Prey70 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2007

Enter the mind of an obsessive killer - and an obsessive hunter - is there that much of a difference?
Sandford is a brilliant writer and he shows how Lucas Davenport - the hero of the series - is walking that thin, sharp line between hero and villain right now. Suffering from depression (and likely post-traumatic stress disorder after the events in the preceeding book, Shadow Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)), Lucas lets his temper take control early on while hunting down a young pimp who beat ... 		  
  







  
  
Prey822 reviews
Michael Crichton

Harper, 2008

A bit of smartly done, high-tech adventure
Michael Crichton is re-visiting some old stomping grounds in this one. The 1970s sci-fi movie classic Westworld was written and directed by Crichton and it features technology run amok and set loose on a killing spree. Jurassic Park features the dangers of tampering with the gene pool with an ensuing killing spree. Prey, in many ways, is a combination of the two - the dangers of ... 		  
  







  
  
Silent Prey36 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 1993

Bekker is Back...
At the end of Eyes of Prey, Lucas beat villain Michael Bekker mercilessly as opposed to killing him, which is what he really felt like doing. After all, one of Bekker's victims was Davenport's actress girlfriend. This book opens with Bekker's trial and his escape from the courtroom as the jury retires to deliberate. While the escape is clever, it's not very realistic for such a vicious serial ... 		  
  







  
  
Invisible Prey99 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2008

Creepy couple
A demented married couple is going around the upper midwest in order to murder old people for their antiques. This twist on what constitutes the "usual" serial killer in mystery novels, made this book stand out, for more reasons than just the excellent writing. Davenport has quickly become one of my favorite American fictional police officers. 		  
  







  
  
Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)97 reviews
John Sandford

Putnam Adult, 2008

John Sandford is the best
I don't care what he writes, Sandford is my absolute favorite author. His characters are totally real. Lucas is a superhero but human. I know JS said he wished he hadn't married him to Weather, but in my view, it hasn't hurt him at all. Virgil Flowers, Kidd, whatever. Just keep writing! 		  
  







  
  
Certain Prey203 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2000

What does it take to build a sociopath?
On the surface, Carmel Loan and Clara Rinker couldn't be more different. Carmel is one of the best criminal defense lawyers in Minneapolis - as a result she has the fancy apartment, nice clothes, high profile car - she seems to have it all. Meanwhile, Clara left home when she was in her early teens because her stepfather was molesting her and became a stripper. One night after the bar closed, ... 		  
  







  
  
Rules of Prey91 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2005

Excellent book!
Very good book, the start of the Prey series. Once you start you can't put it down. You'll want to read all the Prey books after this one! 		  
  







  
  
Chosen Prey95 reviews
John Sandford, 2001

Art and Murder combine in Suspense-filled Davenport novel
It all began with a drawing that was turned in to the police; a woman who was walking found a nude drawing with her face on it posted in several locations in and around the University of Minnesota. When the police run a newscast, several more women come forward with similar pictures. Then someone discovers that a missing girl had a picture like this as well. Eventually, a mass graveyard is ... 		  
  







  
  
Easy Prey176 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2001

Quite a puzzler!
When model Alie'e Maison is found strangled to death in the aftermath of a party - and then a second woman (Sandy Lansing) is found murdered and stuffed in a closet, a media feeding frenzy threatens to cause trouble for Chief of Police, Rose Marie Roux. As Lucas Davenport races to solve the mystery, bodies begin to pile up - Alie'e's photographer, her parents, suspects and material witnesses in ... 		  
  







  
  
Broken Prey140 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2006

Kept me guessing
This is the first murder mystery in a long time, where I didn't have everything figured out by the halfway point. I'd never read a Sandford novel before, and am very glad to have been introduced to this author. The characters, as gritty as they are, were well developed and interesting. I'm not familiar with the Twin Cities, but the Minnesota setting is a nice break from the LA/NYC settings ... 		  
  







  
  
Birds of Prey: A Novel of Suspense29 reviews
J.A. Jance

Avon, 2002

Decent but Different
I've read this book a couple times and it really isn't Jance's best. Actually it doesn't even come close. Beaumont, the main character is still present but that's where the similarities to a lot of the other books really end. I do have to recognize the author's talent in capturing a cruise along the inside passage from Seattle to Alaska. Jance did a great job of portraying the sites and ... 		  
  







  
  
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam2 reviews
Mark Moyar

Bison Books, 2007

A critical text on the Phoenix Project
I'm extremely glad to see that this important book has finally been republished and become available to a wider audience. I wrote my thesis in history on Phoenix, and Moyar's work was an invaluable resource, once I was finally able to get my hands on it. It is sadly relatively unique among works on Phoenix in being well-documented, well-written, and free from a pathological agenda. I highly ... 		  
  







  
  
Naked Prey99 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2004

Winter in Minnesota brings a potential tinder-box blaze
In this, the 14th Lucas Davenport novel, John Sandford keeps doing what he does best - that is writing a book that keeps us wanting more. When a black man and white woman are found hanged, a potential race issue is quickly brought forward and Lucas - who is the governor's "fix stuff" guy - is sent up to the Broderick/Armstrong area to do what he can to defuse the situation before people start ... 		  
  







  
  
Birds of Prey, Vol. 1: Of Like Minds10 reviews
Gail Simone

DC Comics, 2004

Sisters doin' it for themselves
I'm currently reving up for a review of the recently released DVD set of the television series of this extremely underrated DC comic property and I thought I'd share my thoughts on the source material first. "Birds of Prey" follows the post-Killing Joke exploits of Barbara Gordon: former Batgirl and current paraplegic. Most crimefighters would slow down after receiving a bullet in the spine. ... 		  
  







  
  
Winter Prey49 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 1994

The Best Prey So Far...
I'm a fan of the Prey series and unfortunately I have in the past read them here and there, but not in any order. I recently started at the beginning and wish I had started there from the start. Doing that enables the reader to better follow the character development of Davenport. Having read some of the later books, it is in Winter Prey that we are first introduced to Weather. Their relationship ... 		  
  







  
  
Night Prey33 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 1995

One of the Best of the Prey Series...
In the last Prey book, the reader did not know who the bad guy was. In this one, Night Prey, the identity of the killer is known to the reader, and the reader is allowed into his psyche and is a part of the deterioration of that psyche. Both presentations of these stories were done well. Usually I like figuring out who the killer is, but Sandford does both ways in a compelling manner. Another ... 		  
  







  
  
Shadow Prey9 reviews
John Sandford

Berkley, 2006

Underrated entry in a great series
Joh Sandford himself has said that Shadow Prey is one of the least popular books in the series, but it's one of my favorites. Its premise is similar to that of Sudden Prey in that you have a group of villains whose motives are at least understandable, if not laudable, and that ambiguity nicely grays out the inevitably violent conflict between them and Lucas Davenport. No doubt that's why the ... 		  
  







  




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