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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425174272
ISBN: 0425174271
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: March 01, 2000
Publisher: Berkley
Sales Rank: 27517
Studio: Berkley
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The #1 New York Times Bestselling series featuring Lucas Davenport.
Of all the criminals that Lucas Davenport has hunted, none has been as frighteningly intelligent as the woman who's hunting him now.
Amazon.com Review:
In the 10th installment of his popular Prey series, John Sandford (a.k.a. John Camp) pits his popular antihero, Lucas Davenport, against a pair of cunning killers unlike any he has encountered before.
Attorney Carmel Loan is preternaturally beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious. When she becomes infatuated with fellow barrister Hale Allen, she isn't going to let a little thing like his being married get in her way. A quick meeting with an ex-client sets up the hit on Hale's wife, Barbara. The professional killer, Clara Rinker, is one of the best in the business. Smart, attractive, with a gentle Southern drawl, no one would suspect her of being a top Mafia hit man... er, hit person. When she takes the Allen assignment, she figures it will be easy money for a day's work. But things go wrong from the beginning. Loan's ex-client made a tape of the meeting, and is shaking her down for money. Worse, the shooting of a witness--a cop--brings deputy inspector Lucas Davenport into the case. Somehow Davenport has not only linked Loan to the killing, but seems to have a lead on Rinker as well. Carmel and Clara team up to clean up the loose ends, which includes getting Davenport off their back by whatever means necessary.
Like all of Sandford's books, Certain Prey is a fast and furious ride. Fans of previous Prey books will find Davenport a little older, a little more wary, but no less sharp-witted and determined. Though parts of the plot may stretch the limits of credulity and the dialogue falls a little flat in places, this is still a wonderfully crafted thriller, possibly one of the best of 1999. Certain Prey cements Sandford's standing among such luminaries as James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, and Thomas Harris. --Perry Atterberry
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This entry in the Lucas Davenport series starts out great, with a professional hit-woman coming to town. And, for the first half of the book, the pro killer and the crazy lawyer who hired her make a good pair. By midway, the story has collapsed in on itself a bit, and becomes plodding. It tries, but never quite pulls itself out of the slump.
There aren't any real pieces of character development, in terms of the main characters, in this book, and that felt out of place. If the author ... Read More
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As a teenager, Clara Rinker ran away from home and an abusive stepfather. While working as a dancer in a strip club, Clara is raped but plots her vengeance and kills the man who assaulted her. This begins a long career for Clara as a hired killer. Carmel Loan is a successful defense attorney in Minneapolis, a woman who is used to getting what she wants. And she wants Hale Allen, but standing in her way is Allen's wife. Through a third-party, Carmel hires Clara to kill Allen's wife, at which point, Lucas ... Read More
Rating:  -
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, a drunken patron raped her in the parking lot - she arranged help from the owners of the bar for her revenge and ... Read More
Rating:  -
I'm a big fan of John Sandford's PREY novels, and have read most of the books in the series. But this tenth entry, CERTAIN PREY, is in my opinion one of the weakest entries.
As a reader, I don't expect thrillers to be completely realistic. But in CERTAIN PREY, Sandford chooses to do away with reality completely, and creates a silly storyline involving two female killers. Neither killer is even remotely believable, and both border on cartoonish in their behavior. Over and over again, I found ... Read More
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Sandford has done it again. Time and time again I pick up the next Prey novel starring Lucas Davenport and wonder, is this going to be a recycled plot line with different villain names? You would think that after a dozen books we would be running out of criminal types and motivations. However, while some of the Prey books have some similarities, "Certain Prey" is cleverly original.
Enter a lawyer and her hired hit-woman. As they work together to tie up a few loose ends they become a smooth operating ... Read More
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