Wicked prey

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DANGER STALKS LUCAS DAVENPORT AT WORK AND ALL TOO CLOSE TO HOME, IN THE SUPERLATIVE NEW THRILLER BY THE NUMBER-ONE NEW YORK T/MES-BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
"What's the secret of Sandford's success, other than profligate talent? He insists on keeping his main characters flawed people instead of letting them calcify into iconic figures of truth or justice. Phantom Prey shows yet again why he's just so good." -Cleveland Plain Dealer
For twenty years, John Sandford's novels have been beloved for their "ingenious plots, vivid characters, crisp dialogue and endless surprises" (The Washington Post), and nowhere are those more in evidence than in the sudden twists and shocks of Wicked Prey.
The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention. Throwing a big party is supposed to be fun, but.crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather stayed away. Chief among them is a crew of professional stick-up men who've spotted several lucrative opportunities, ranging from... Tovább

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DANGER STALKS LUCAS DAVENPORT AT WORK AND ALL TOO CLOSE TO HOME, IN THE SUPERLATIVE NEW THRILLER BY THE NUMBER-ONE NEW YORK T/MES-BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
"What's the secret of Sandford's success, other than profligate talent? He insists on keeping his main characters flawed people instead of letting them calcify into iconic figures of truth or justice. Phantom Prey shows yet again why he's just so good." -Cleveland Plain Dealer
For twenty years, John Sandford's novels have been beloved for their "ingenious plots, vivid characters, crisp dialogue and endless surprises" (The Washington Post), and nowhere are those more in evidence than in the sudden twists and shocks of Wicked Prey.
The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention. Throwing a big party is supposed to be fun, but.crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather stayed away. Chief among them is a crew of professional stick-up men who've spotted several lucrative opportunities, ranging from political moneymen with briefcases full of cash, to that convention hotel with the weakness in its security system. All that's headache enough for Lucas Davenport-but what's about to hit him is even worse.
A while back, a stray bullet put a pimp and petty thief named Randy Whitcomb into a wheelchair, and ever since, the man has been nursing his grudge into a full head of psychotic steam. He blames Davenport for the bullet, but it's no fun just shooting him. That wouldn't be
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painful enough. Not when Davenporthas apretty fourteen-year-old adopted daughter whom Whitcomb can target instead... And then there's the young man with the .50-caliber sniper rifle and the right-wing-crazy background, roaming through a city filled with the most powerful politicians on earth... Filled with this brilliant trademark suspense and some of the best characters in suspense fiction, Wicked Prey is further proof that "Sandford is one of the most consistently entertaining crime writers working today' (Booklist) John Sandford is the author of nineteen Prey novels and eight other books, most recently Heat Lightning. He lives in Minnesota Vissza