Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport)
by John Sandford
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Author: John SandfordEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN: 0399155007
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Book Reviews of Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport)
Book Review: Not Up to Series Standards
Summary: 3 Stars
First, I find the main character, Lucas Davenport, one of the most compelling characters of this genre. He is the type of guy I would like to be, or at least know, if I were transported to a fictional universe. He is not quite in the league, interest-wise, as a Harry Bosch, but likable and edgy just the same. I'm somewhat surprised that he hasn't made his way on the big or little screen. This being said, however, this book was a disappointed as it degenerates into a story that might play if Lifetime, Spike and the SciFi channel merge. Sandford has written much better in the past and I'm hoping his story lines have not run dry. It's a decent beach or summer read but take it for what it is. A reasonable entertaining work that will kill a few hours but be forgotten in just about the same amount of time.
Summary of Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport)
Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before- but never one quite like this, in the shocking new Prey novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.John Sandford's most recent Davenport novel, Invisible Prey, was hailed as "one of his best books in recent memory" (The Washington Post); "as fresh and entertaining as ever" (Chicago Sun-Times); and "rivetingly readable" (Richmond Times-Dispatch). But this time, he's got something quite special in store.
A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood everywhere, no body-and her collegeaged daughter missing. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them-Goths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup and black clothing, listening to that awful music, so attracted to death. And now this.
But the police can't find the girl, alive or dead, and when a second Goth is found slashed to death in Minneapolis, the widow truly panics. There's someone she knows, a surgeon named Weather Davenport, whose husband is a big deal with the police, and she implores Weather to get him directly involved. Lucas begins to investigate only reluctantly-but then when a third Goth is slashed in what is now looking like a Jackthe- Ripper series of killings, he starts working it hard. The clues don't seem to add up, though. And then there's the young Goth who keeps appearing and disappearing: Who is she? Where does she come from and, more important, where does she vanish to? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here . . . something very, very bad indeed?
Filled with his brilliant trademark suspense and some of the most interesting characters in thriller fiction, Phantom Prey is further proof that "Sandford is in a class of his own" (The Orlando Sentinel).
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