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Easy Prey
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425178768
ISBN: 0425178765
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: March 01, 2001
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: February 27, 2001
Studio: Berkley
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Editorial Review:
Penzler Pick, June 2000: Easy Prey is the 11th mystery to feature Lucas Davenport, who began his career back in Rules of Prey as a maverick homicide detective reminiscent of "Dirty Harry" Callahan. He did things his way and was often at odds with his superiors in the Minneapolis Police Department. Since those early days, Davenport has mellowed a little, and his background as a computer game-designing, Porsche-driving womanizer has been somewhat reduced. Possibly age has become a factor, or it may be the fact that Davenport has been deputy chief since the sixth book in the series, Night Prey. The character may have changed, but the writing has remained consistently taut: the bad guys creepy, the mysteries suspenseful.
In this newest episode, Davenport is called to a house after an A-list party has taken place there. Alie'e Maison, a top model, has been found strangled, and evidence shows that she ingested drugs and recently made love--most probably to a woman. Before Lucas leaves the house, things get even more complicated: a second body is found stuffed in a closet with a deep dent in the skull. In addition, one of Lucas's own men had been at the party and is now a suspect.
As always, Lucas's own life is not exempt from complications. An ex-lover comes back into his world--a woman he has never been able to forget--and she has secrets of her own. Also making an appearance this time out is a childhood friend to whom he turns for advice about women and life. Sister Mary Joseph, born Elle Kruger, is a professor of psychology and one of the computer brains who helps Lucas design his software. He calls her Nun the Wiser, and he often turns to her for spiritual as well as more concrete advice. Lucas is going to need all the help he can get to unravel his case as secrets pile upon secrets and the ground constantly shifts under his feet.
Easy Prey is another powerful link in this chain of muscular, exciting thrillers by one of the most distinguished practitioners in the field. --Otto Penzler
The death of a model leads Detective Lucas Davenport to suspect one of his own men. "You won't want to miss it." (Los Angeles Times) "Cracker jack suspense." (New York Post)
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Another Good One
As usual, Sandford doesn't disappoint in his portrayal of Lucas Davenport. Great mystery and police procedural.
Rating: - He does it again
Again Sanford has come through with an outstanding book. Holds ones interest from the first page to the end and makes one wish it would never end. Enjoyed it just as much or more than the previous Prey books.
Rating: - Quite a puzzler!
When model Alie'e Maison is found strangled to death in the aftermath of a party - and then a second woman (Sandy Lansing) is found murdered and stuffed in a closet, a media feeding frenzy threatens to cause trouble for Chief of Police, Rose Marie Roux. As Lucas Davenport races to solve the mystery, bodies begin to pile up - Alie'e's photographer, her parents, suspects and material witnesses in the case - and meantime time is running out before an all-out media blitz/political war ensues, that ... Read More
Rating:  - Sort of, Kinda, Would Be Prey
This Prey novel starts with a so-so premise, with a model getting killed, and Lucas Davenport investigating. The novel has some okay twists, but its nothing special. We get within 20 pages of the end, we think we know who the killer is. Then, out of the blue, they say the killer is some body, who, up untill this point, had never been mentioned. Not by name, nothing. When I first read it, I went, who? All and all, and okay novel, ruined by an awfull ending.
Rating: - Can hardly get through it....
I have been zipping through the "Prey" series and have been loving every book. And then.....I hit this one and can barely get through it! I'm glad to see I am not the only one. If this is your first attempt at a "Prey" book please just start with the first of the series and don't judge Lucas Davenport or John Sandford by this attempt.
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