Extreme Prey

Lucas Davenport, Book 26

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation: he is no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff.

'Should be fun!' he says, and it kind of is - until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor...and anyone who gets in the way.

©2016 John Sandford (P)2016 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"If you haven’t read Sandford yet, you have been missing one of the great summer-read novelists of all time." (Stephen King)

"Sandford has always been at the top of any list of great mystery writers. His writing and the appeal of his lead character are as fresh as ever." ( The Huffington Post)

Between Jobs

Good read. Lucas Davenport is "between jobs", having left the Minnesota BCI in the last book because of a pain in the ass political boss who didn't appreciate Lucas' tactics. The governor of Minnesota (Elmer Henderson) is running for President but really wants to be VP on the Democrat ticket. He asks Lucas to look into possible threats against the other leading Democratic presidential candidate (Mike Bowden) who is more likely to be the party winner and who the governor would like to serve under as VP. Bowden has a cabinet position in the Obama administration (hah, unstated but assumed) and is described as less a "far lefty" than Henderson is. Davenport finds operating an investigation without a badge has major disadvantages, but also a few advantages. In the end, he cracks the plot, it fails and Bowden is unharmed...buts lots of other people are killed or wounded. For his good work, Davenport is offered a new job as a US Marshal. The story ends with him yet undecided about that, but you can guess he will take it. Lots of action in this book makes it a fun and enjoyable read. Another great Prey novel for Sandford to add to his collection

Richard Ferrone fantastic with the delivery of the story

Shallow Plot leads to inevitable disappointment

Any additional comments?

As an avid and dedicated listener to all of John Sandford's novels, I was non-plussed by the shallow and contrived plot for this latest installment of the Lucas Davenport series. In short, LD -who is now freelancing - is engaged to protect a female presidential candidate in the election run up. Threats have surfaced that someone wants the candidate dead and it's LD's job to find them and avert the assassination. Hmmm. I've just written a plot that has been written a thousand times before and in this particular case, there aren't any twists and turns to change that template from the mundane to the interesting.Hence the reason for the low rating.