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... and this was an excellent story, but by the last 50 pages I was skimming, “JUST KILL THE GUY! The author is sometimes too clever, and too lose with his time frames for his own good. The bad guy’s raping, driving, there’s an FBI MANHUNT, the bad guy’s out in the middle of it, slipping past, getting away, getting away, then the cops are all going to bed, then the subplot of who in the family is tipping the bad guy off, then the kidnapped woman’s partner is arranging the whole thing to “get all the money”, then the kid napped women are ENDLESSLY worrying a nail out of the wall, then the bad guy is defying THOUSANDS of cops, FBI, EVERYONE! Then the ex-husbands delivering ransom money but it’s a trap but the lead cop who also designs GAMES has gamers worked no computers and warrants aren’t coming and the FBI IS EVERYWHERE but the bad guy, in at least seven different places simultaneously is raping and escaping and planting traps and the devious partner of the kidnapped women is threatening to SUE EVERYONE, Then it’s a rush to save the women, but the blackmailer and the mole in the family and the vengeful partner and the cops are taking naps, and Davenport trying to decide to ask his woman to marry him, then the ENTIRE FBI IS OUT but the bad guy is in a house, in a car, getting away to kill the women then the women work on the nail... ONE HUNDRED PAGES that should have taken FIVE. Then the bad guy’s sort of dead or shot himself and the women are free BUT THERES STILL FIFTY PAGES of the family mole and the blackmailer and the devious partner....


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Mind Prey John Sandford 9780425152898 Books Reviews

Lucas Davenport is one of the best characters in books today. He is great looking, egotistical, hard headed & absolutely great. This book, as all of them do, has a good story & great character development. I like reading a little about all of the secondary cast in each book. You get to know them & either like or dislike them in a short time. I am not particularly fond of Weather but she doesn't interfere in the stories very often. The group of detectives & cops are usually very entertaining & often very amusing. I just wish Mr. Sandford would write them faster.
I've read most of the Prey series and have been going back looking for ones I'd missed for one reason or another. I found this one and even knowing how it ends many years later didn't change how enjoyable it was.

This is one of my favorite villains so far - intelligent and crazy in a slightly more understandable way. While he was crazy and violent you saw a different sort of potential for non-crazy than you normally do. There was something there that made you feel like he could've gone either way.

I thought the second villain was far too obvious and not all that interesting even though that was the actual "mystery"... in so far as the villain is usually known to the reader so we can watch his/her mind work... here one was kept hidden but it was so obvious which one it was it sort of didn't matter to the story.

All in all you could pick this up in the middle or as your first Prey book and enjoy it thoroughly.
I somehow missed this rather early (1995) Lucas Davenport number, but obviously Sandford always had it. It did seem a little weird that Goths were playing Dungeons and Dragons, and a flip-top phone was high tech, and the bad guy didn't know cell phones could be traced with GPS, but I thought of it as literary archeology. All the stuff that makes Sandford a winner now was there then.
This was one of the development "Prey Books" that I missed along the way. This was the 19th book I read in this series. It was nice reading where some of these characters were still alive and very active in this plot while they had died or been killed in later stories. Also this is the key book in Lucas' life where he proposes to Weather who becomes his wife for several books to the present time. The running gag is that he carries the engagement ring around in his pocket through this story, not finding the "right time" to pop the question until the very end after he drags it through the mud in his pocket while trying to catch the bad guy.

The story deals with a mentally ill patient who escapes surveillance by faking his own death as a jumper from a tall bridge. Then he kidnaps the pretty young psychiatrist who treated him for many years as a troubled teenager. She has two daughters, and, he takes them too. He holds them in the root cellar of a remote farm south of St Paul. He repeatedly rapes the psychiatrist violently and threatens the girls. He takes the youngest girl and dumps her in a deep cystern, claiming to her mother that he released her in a mall. She is found near the end.

AS in many of these mysteries, Lucas spends half the story trying figure out who the bad guy is even though the bad guy is talking to him on a cell phone much of the time. It is one of the best of the "Prey" series, giving a firm foundation to the "prey" classification for these stories about Lucas Davenport, the Minneapolis cop.
I am an ardent John Sandford fan. I recently purchased and read the complete Prey series and then the complete Flowers series in order, and I'm only sorry I'll have to wait for the next book in both series. Sandford is a novelist with the rare ability to carry over characters and plot elements with complete believabiity while allowing both to develop in interesting, unexpected but natural ways - the only other "serial" novelist who does this nearly as well is Anthony Trollope, and he avoids murders. I re-read these books with pleasure as great or greater than the first reading because the fast-paced narrative and unexpected plot developments pulls you to read fast the first time; the second or third you can pay attention to atmosphere (he's great on significant landscape detail), character growth, and situation development. Sandford writes like a real novelist, not like someone trying to impress academia with his literary exclusivity.
... and this was an excellent story, but by the last 50 pages I was skimming, “JUST KILL THE GUY! The author is sometimes too clever, and too lose with his time frames for his own good. The bad guy’s raping, driving, there’s an FBI MANHUNT, the bad guy’s out in the middle of it, slipping past, getting away, getting away, then the cops are all going to bed, then the subplot of who in the family is tipping the bad guy off, then the kidnapped woman’s partner is arranging the whole thing to “get all the money”, then the kid napped women are ENDLESSLY worrying a nail out of the wall, then the bad guy is defying THOUSANDS of cops, FBI, EVERYONE! Then the ex-husbands delivering ransom money but it’s a trap but the lead cop who also designs GAMES has gamers worked no computers and warrants aren’t coming and the FBI IS EVERYWHERE but the bad guy, in at least seven different places simultaneously is raping and escaping and planting traps and the devious partner of the kidnapped women is threatening to SUE EVERYONE, Then it’s a rush to save the women, but the blackmailer and the mole in the family and the vengeful partner and the cops are taking naps, and Davenport trying to decide to ask his woman to marry him, then the ENTIRE FBI IS OUT but the bad guy is in a house, in a car, getting away to kill the women then the women work on the nail... ONE HUNDRED PAGES that should have taken FIVE. Then the bad guy’s sort of dead or shot himself and the women are free BUT THERES STILL FIFTY PAGES of the family mole and the blackmailer and the devious partner....