Mortal Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 13)
by John Sandford
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Author: John SandfordEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-29
ISBN: 0425189864
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Berkley
Product features:
- John Sandford
- Lucas Davenport
- Mortal Prey
- Lucas Davenport joins forces with a hit woman
- the FBI and DEA draft the Minneapolis cop to head off hit woman Clara Rinker's bloody murder spree
Book Reviews of Mortal Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 13)
Book Review: a literary cramp
Summary: 2 Stars
"The pain pushed through the sleep like an arrow, and he rose to the surface and tried to tried to stretch his right leg, but the cramp held on and got deeper, and Lucas groaned, "Man, man, man-o-man-o-man," and tried to knead it out, but the cramp held on for fifteen seconds, twenty, then began to slacken.Thus chapter 12 opens with perhaps the most convoluted, ill-formed run-on sentence I've ever read in published literature. This is just the most egregious example. Elsewhere, action scenes are described unclearly, often requiring rereading to clarify the flow.
So on the local scale, the book falls short. Clearly it lacks the level of editing and revision expected from a professional work. But on the global scale, it also fails. The book has the feel of being written on a page budget, the plot development dictated by the page number rather than by events and circumstances. After clumsy middle-chapter plodding, things are wrapped up with remarkable efficiency as the magic number of 400 is approached.
The problem here is that Sandford, like so many best-selling authors, has gone to writing two books per year instead of the still-challenging one. Compromises must be made, quality must suffer, but profit justifies all. "Mortal Prey" rings with but an echo of the magic of such classics as "Winter Prey". It's not a total loss -- the echo, at least, is still there. But why settle?
Unfortunately for me, this is the second consecuting Prey book which has missed the target, after "Easy Prey". So I am afraid I must now move on. My strong recommendation -- start with Rules of Prey and go through the series. The early books shine where these late works fail. Don't fall "prey" to the "best seller" syndrome.
Summary of Mortal Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 13)
In this thirteenth Prey novel, Lucas Davenport joins forces with a hit woman who comes perilously close to doing him in.Lucas Davenport's boss is about to lose her job as chief of police, his fiancée is distracted with wedding plans, and his house-remodeling project is at a standstill. So when the FBI and DEA draft the Minneapolis cop to head off hit woman Clara Rinker's bloody murder spree, he's glad to oblige. The lady killer and the killer lady have tangled before in Sandford's Prey series, and their personal history seasons this fast-paced story of mayhem, murder, and revenge. After Rinker barely survives an assassination attempt that destroys her unborn baby and kills her lover, the son of a Mexican drug lord, she sets out to destroy the mobsters who ordered the hit, a journey that brings her into Davenport's sights again and also puts him back in action alongside a woman agent with whom he was once involved. But it's the grudging respect and even affection Sandford hints at between Rinker and Lucas that takes this crisp, confident thriller beyond the limitations of the genre and makes the characters flesh-and-blood human beings. A standout in a terrific series! --Jane Adams
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