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Title: Hidden Prey by John Sandford, Eric Conger ISBN: 0-14-280058-9 Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks Pub. Date: 06 May, 2004 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (50 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: One of the worst in the series.
Comment: A man named Rodion Oleshev is found dead with three bullets in his head and heart. Nobody knows for sure why this man was killed, but everyone from the local cops, to the FBI and even the Russians themselves have theories. Lucas Davenport is asked investigate with the aide of a female Russian cop from Moscow.
Lucas and Nadezhda, begin their investigation to find the victim was a man with high government connections, and he was killed with fifty-year old bullets.
Why was this man killed and why was he killed with the old bullets? These are the questions that Davenport and his partner must answer, but in order to do so they must follow a trail that will take them to another place and time, one that holds deadly secrets.
'Hidden Prey' is not the best novel in the Prey series; it's a little confusing, somewhat boring and slowly paced. Over the years the Prey series has lost it's spunk and that's due mainly in part to the changing of plot style. The early novels in the series were page-turning thrillers about twisted killers, but the new ones are slow paced mysteries that have replaced the page-turning thrills and twisted killers with boring Russian conspiracies and female assassins among others.
Die-hard fans of the series may find this new book acceptable, but fans of exciting thrillers, or exciting Prey novels such as 'Mind Prey', 'Rules of Prey', 'Eyes of Prey' or 'Winter Prey' to name a few of the better titles in the series, will be disappointed.
Nick Gonnella
Rating: 4
Summary: SANDFORD - STILL TOPS
Comment: John Sandford's Prey series has been called riveting, compulsively readable, and splendid. It is all of these. Then, just when you think this author couldn't possibly pen a story any more dynamite reading than the last he does. "Hidden Prey" is Sandford in top form - it's surprising, exciting with action aplenty.
There's little rest for popular protagonist Lucas Davenport in this one. With the discovery of a dead Russian on the shores of Lake Superior Davenport feels like it's deja vu the Cold War in today's Minnesota.
Before long the FBI discovers that the murdered man had KGB connections. Was he a Russian intelligence agent? Everyone has both questions and theories - Davenport arrives on the scene, a Russian policeman jets in from Moscow, law enforcement officers investigate, and reporters of every ilk converge.
A barrage of violent events cloud the original crime: a homeless woman is garroted, a bar owner is attacked, and a police officer is shot. Despite the confusion Davenport finds out a few things he didn't want to know - this part of his home state once sheltered a bunch of Communist sympathizers, and there's every indication that this cell is alive and well once again.
There's much for Davenport to retrace - another place, another time - all of which puts him in peril. Yet, this must be done before he can begin to unravel this many layered mystery.
If you liked "Naked Prey" you'll be delighted WIth "Hidden Prey." Or, if you haven't read any of the Prey series - treat yourself.
Rating: 2
Summary: Oh well, they can't all be great
Comment: This is worse than Easy Prey. And not because Lucas is an old married man but because he seems to have lost all of his detecting ability. What happened to the logical, game playing brain? Where are the brilliant leaps of intuitive insight? Where is the sex appeal? Where is the intensity? Where is Lucas Davenport?!!!
Aside from the character being less than exciting, I found the the plot development to be lacking. When the reader knows from the beginning "who done it", the author must engage your attention with the clever ways in which the hero figures it out.
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Title: The Narrows: A Novel by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316155306 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Hanged Man's Song by John Sandford ISBN: 0399151397 Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons Pub. Date: 10 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Therapy by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345452593 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: 3rd Degree by James Patterson, Andrew Gross ISBN: 0316603570 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Last Juror by John Grisham ISBN: 0385510438 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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