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Title: Hidden Prey by John Sandford ISBN: 0-399-15180-X Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 11 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (48 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Is this a mystery?
Comment: I enjoy John Sandford's books, especially the Prey novels. But in 'Hidden Prey' the plot centers around a spy ring, instead of Davenport chasing down a killer. It just didn't feel right. And the ending was kind of a let down.
If you're a big Sandford fan this is worth the money, but if you're new to John Sandford I'd start with one of his earlier books, Mind Prey, Certain Prey and Naked Prey are my favorites.
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: Good but not my favorite...
Comment: Back to a little recreational reading...
I finished Hidden Prey by John Sandford a couple of days ago. This is the latest in his Prey series with main character Lucas Davenport. While I enjoyed it, it wasn't as good as some of his previous installments...
A Russian from a docked freighter is murdered on the docks. The killer notices a homeless woman who has witnessed the crime and takes off after her (but doesn't find her). A couple of days later, a homeless lady is found strangled and everyone thinks it's a connection to the first murder. Davenport is called in to help investigate the crime when Russia sends over a female "police chief" to help with the case. She is not who or what she seems to be, and it starts to look more and more like an espionage ring is responsible for the killing. It's up to Davenport to not only figure out who the killer is, but why the killings took place.
I like Sandford's writing and characters, so from that perspective I liked the book. What I didn't care for is how the story is structured. Murder mysteries seem to be written in two main styles. Either you don't have a clue who the killer is (and the story is tracking down who dun it), or you know right up front who the killer is (and you watch the action unfold as s/he is brought to justice). This is a blend of the two. You know who did the killing, and you watch them being tracked down, but there's no clue as to why the Russian was killed or how the espionage angle (which is very big in the story) figures in. Since you don't learn the "why" until very close to the end, I tended to lose some interest in the whole story. I was getting close to a "who cares" point. I'd probably give this a 3.5 stars if I could do half ratings, but since I can't I'll error on the up side.
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