The New York Daily NewsĮnough pulse-pounding, page-turning excitement to keep you up way past bedtime. Houston ChronicleĬrackling, page-turning eat scary fun. Grip-you-by-the-throat thrills.a hell of a ride. Sandford is a writer in control of his craft. Relentlessly swift.genuinely suspenseful.excellent. Novels weave intriguingly through this one, inviting the reader to plunge into Welcome routine and rival the richly characterized acid blackness of TV’s Homicide show…Events from earlier Prey “The cop ripostes herein are a brilliantly Novel may well be the best, and that’s high praise in the context of such aĬonsistently entertaining body of work.” - Booklist Subtle, melancholy protagonist and most of all, great villains. Varying the premise with imaginative plotting shifting points of view a “Sandford has sustained his Prey thrillers by Suspense-making skills really kick in, keeping us fascinated.” Smart suspense and deduction as well as explosive action…Sandford’s “This is the best installment in years-full of

“Don’t start if you don’t plan to finish it in “Excellent…Compelling…Everything works.” - USA Today Lucas is depressed because Weather is gone and the team is still healing from the damage done to them in Sudden Prey.' A rich businessman is killed and Davenport picks his way through the executives that wanted him dead. 'This book took me to a hunting lodge and had a feel of an Agatha Christie novel. John Sandford has written extraordinary thrillers before, but nothing to top the startling twists and unrelenting suspense of Secret Prey. Sometime soon, unless he could stop it, there would be another death, and then still another, and Davenport couldn't help but wonder if maybe this time, the final death might not be his own. He had felt this way not long before, sensed the curling of an indefinable evil, and not only had it nearly gotten him killed, it had lost him his fiancee, who?d never been able to recover from the violence of the encounter.

There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murder of a single man. If he read it in a book, Lucas Davenport thought, it would seem like one of those classic murder mysteries, the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case with a little speech.īut it wasn't going to be that easy, he knew. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death. The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range.

Secret prey by john sandford