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SECRET PREY
by Sandford, John
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399143823
- ISBN 13
- 9780399143823
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Putnam, 1998. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Lucas Davenport. "Sandford is back with his ninth Prey novel featuring dapper, dangerous Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport. Fans of the series will be glad to hear that this is the best installment in years--full of smart suspense and deduction as well as explosive action. Newcomers can plunge in without backstory research; all they need to know is that Davenport and his fellow cops are still nursing the wounds they garnered in Sudden Prey and that a depressed Lucas has gotten dumped by Weather, his girlfriend in that novel, when he is sent to investigate the murder of banking executive Daniel Kresge in a hunting lodge north of Minneapolis. Any of Kresge's four fellow hunters--all employees at his Polaris Bank--could have shot him, and all had motives (as did his "soon-to-be-ex-wife")..." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.
Synopsis
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. 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. 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. But it wasn't going to be that easy, he knew. There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murder of a single man. 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. 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. . . . John Sandford has written extraordinary thrillers before, but nothing to top the startling twists and unrelenting suspense of Secret Prey .
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004700
- Title
- SECRET PREY
- Author
- Sandford, John
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0399143823
- ISBN 13
- 9780399143823
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- MYSTERY; REVIEW COPY; THRILLER; LUCAS DAVENPORT
- Bookseller catalogs
- MINNEAPOLIS;
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