Mind Prey
by John Sandford
|
Our Price: $16.47 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of Mind Prey
Book Review: quite the thriller!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the seventh in a series of novels featuring Lucas Davenport, a tough police detective in Minnesota. It is the third and definitely the best that I have read in the series.
Davenport is more than a detective, he also designs role-playing and computer simulation games, a hobby that blossomed into a multi-million dollar business. The twist in this plot is that the bad guy is a psycho who happens to love role-playing games. He kidnaps one of his former therapists to fulfill some of his twisted fantasies and then gets a bigger thrill when he discovers that the designer of some his favorite games is on the case. (Imagine a 'Dungeons and Dragons' player matching wits against Gary Gygax and you've got the scenario)
This is really quite a good thriller - it was very difficult to put the book down while reading the last 75 pages.
Book Review: Best of the prey series
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read this book twice and was just as interested the second time around.Lucas is one of the best detectives I have read.I get caught up in the stories and most of all the life of Lucas.I feel like I know him and am waiting for another book to see if he goes ahead with the wedding with Weather.Or what will happen with the two of them.I just saw the movie and am wondering how they can change Lucas so much.The story did follow the book pretty close but aI didn't like that Weather left him.That didn't happen in the book.I like Sanfords villians because they are the best of the worst.You never know what will happen because they have no consience.I have read all nine booksk,or at least all of them up to sudden prey.I hope sdanford keeps up the good work because I can't imagine not following Lucas.I want to see him and Weather have a life.Book Review: Love the creativity of the Kidnapper, and of Davenport!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The third book ive read in the Prey series, and i loved it. None of them have disappointed me. Love the way Villian John Mail and Lucas Davenport kind of play games with eachother and have a battle of wits with eachother. Davenport using witty ideas to find where he is, lure him into traps, while Mail, mentally ill but very intelligent, uses his brain to dodge Davenports traps and tricks, but to send Davenport and his men into booby-traps of his own. The suspense was thrilling. I loved the irony of Davenport having fun with Mail, claustrophobic, in the end, after Mail got to have all the fun leading Davenport around through most of the book. I finished in three days only because school wasted my time, but every chance i could get my nose was buried in it. For a good thrill i would recommend this or any Sanford book in the Prey series.Book Review: Seventh in the Prey series
Summary: 5 Stars
Lucas Davenport faces a new challenge in Mind Prey. He is not hunting a killer through clues left at a murder scene, but instead is trying to find a kidnapped family, who may still be alive.Davenport's fame helps him out because the killer cannot help but call him and challenge him to a duel of wits. Lucas and his team must unravel clues given by the kidnapper, as well as decide who would profit the most from the families death.
If you have read the other Prey books, you will be happy to know that Lucas' love life is still cruising along in one-woman gear. I would also add a warning that, although Sandford does not describe the attacks in detail, the woman who is kidnapped is repeatedly raped and beaten. If that sort of thing disturbs you, you may want to skip this book.
Read this book, and keep reading the Prey series.
Book Review: "Mind Prey" is the most intense book in the series.
Summary: 5 Stars
The best mysteries need two critical elements: (1) a cunning villain, and (2) a tight storyline. In "Mind Prey," you'll find both. I have enjoyed all of Sandford's "Prey" books, but I found this to be the most satisfying because of the factors noted above. "Mind Prey" succeeds on many levels, but the bad guy was particularly interesting. He was clinically insane and acted out his illness at every opportunity. Kidnapping, rape, and murder were disturbingly easy for him. This behavior engaged Davenport's interest and drove pace of the story. It becomes an intense, grisly chess game. The story was tight and seemless, without the twisting complexity of Sandford's earlier stories. Plus, the ending ... no, I won't reveal that, but once you start, you'll get to the end as quickly as you can.