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Title details for Hidden Prey by John Sandford - Available

Hidden Prey

#15 in series

by John Sandford
Richard Ferrone
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Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why he was killed, everybody - the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves - has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan." A Russian cop flies in from Moscow, Davenport flies in from Minneapolis, law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene - and, in the middle of it all, there is another murder. Is there a relationship between the two? What is the Russian cop hiding from Davenport? Is she - yes, it's a woman - a cop at all? Why was the man shot with ... fifty-year-old bullets? Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there - shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Lucas Davenport

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 21, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781101928967
      • File size: 172683 KB
      • Duration: 05:59:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Lucas Davenport, who is with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in Michigan, teams up with Nadya, a Russian policewoman and intelligence agent, to determine who killed the Russian Rodion Oleshev. But the clues don't add up, and more people end up dead, so Nadya and Lucas must determine who is shooting fifty-year-old bullets and what the KGB has to do with it all. Eric Conger manages to keep all the characters straight as he weaves between Russians and Michiganders and copes with the disjointed abridgment of Sandford's tightly woven plot. Sound effects highlight the murders and shoot-outs, adding tension to the taut story line. Conger's emotional distance during the narration adds tension when the clues point in contradictory directions. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 5, 2004
      Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey novels and drifted in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he's happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine-month-old son, Sam; and takes care of his 12-year-old ward, Letty West. Sure, he's got a measure of the old angst, but he's growing accustomed to the good life, spending quality time alone on the couch drinking beer and watching TV golf. His new job is running the Office of Regional Research at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension where he looks into various crimes and "fixes shit" for the governor. So when a dead Russian shows up on the docks in Duluth, Lucas is assigned to shepherd the lady investigator, Nadya Kalin, being sent by the Russian government. From the very first pages, the reader knows it's teenager Carl Walther who has killed the Russian. What makes the book intriguing is the manner in which the sagacious Davenport goes about uncovering the rest of the co-conspirators—a gang of Minnesota-based Communist spies headed by Carl's grandpa, 92-year-old ex-KGB colonel Burt Walther. That Sandford makes this unlikely plot believable is a mark of his mastery of the technical aspects of the mystery form and a testament to his overall writing skills. Readers will be pleased with this relaxed version of the moody Minneapolis investigator. In past novels, the womanizing Davenport would have romanced the good-looking Russian lady, but the new Davenport is content to play the part of friend and protector and go back to his cozy family with an unstained and remarkably contented soul. (May 11)

      Forecast
      :
      Expect this to hit #1—Sandford's last Prey book,
      Naked Prey, opened at the top of the
      Times bestseller list and was only knocked to #2 by
      The Da Vinci Code. 500,000 first printing; main selection of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild; 10-city author tour.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Sandford's well-known Prey mysteries feature state police Detective Lucas Davenport. This time the setting is Duluth, and the iron mining towns of the Mesabi Range. The action begins with the murder of a Russian merchant seaman on the Duluth docks. More murders follow, and a mixed group of good guys, including police, sheriffs, the FBI, and a female Russian investigator, set out to solve them. After 12 Prey novels, Richard Ferrone has the drill down pat. His pacing is excellent; it keeps the listener involved in the action and conveys the ambience that the events create. He's particularly good with female voices, and he does well with the Russian agent speaking accented English. R.E.K. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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