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    Hidden Prey

    Written by John Sandford

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

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    Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why he was killed, everybody - the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves - has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan." A Russian cop flies in from Moscow, Davenport flies in from Minneapolis, law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene - and, in the middle of it all, there is another murder. Is there a relationship between the two? What is the Russian cop hiding from Davenport? Is she - yes, it's a woman - a cop at all? Why was the man shot with ... fifty-year-old bullets? Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there - shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 25, 2012
    ISBN9781101617045
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    Hidden Prey
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    John Sandford

    John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of thirty-three Prey novels, two Letty Davenport novels, four Kidd novels, twelve Virgil Flowers novels, three YA novels co-authored with his wife, Michele Cook, and five stand-alone books.

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    • 3/5
      I have read all of the prey series up to this point and I have to say, this was the least favourite so far. A Russian sailor is killed on the docks in Duluth Minnesota. A homeless woman witnesses the crime. A Russian business man wants the Russians to pursue this with the Americans so the FBI and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are called upon to soothe ruffled feathers and see if they can solve the crime. Of course this involves Lucas Davenport. Suddenly others are being killed and Lucas is searching for a witness, a connection to a Communist Cell and trying to keep the Russians and FBI happy. Lots of law enforcement involved from various towns, a little bit of a love interest for one of the cops and Lucas solves the crime, but not without some sad deaths that leave Lucas a little miserable. A little different from the other prey books. I am hoping the next one goes back to his regular type of stories.
    • 4/5
      Hidden Prey starts out with the murder of a Russian on the Duluth docks. Detective Lucas Davenport of the Minnesota BCA (Bureau of Criminal Apprehension) is assigned the case. The Russian government sends their own investigator, Nadya Kalin, to work alongside Davenport. The plot concerns a group of Communist spies now living in Minnesota, and from the beginning, Davenport is suspicious of Kalin. The reader knows upfront who killed the Russian. What we don't know is why? We find out as Davenport unearths the family trees and traces the collaborators to their origins. When Kalin herself becomes a target, Davenport must prevent certain aspects of the attempt on her life from reaching the ears of senior officials.The relationship with Kalin and Davenport is interesting. She is a mystery to him, which makes the novel more humorous in parts. It's an unlikely plotline that seems for the most part to work, though the ending may leave some readers unenthusiastic and questioning whether there are actually any villains. While gruesome in parts, it is not dark or sadistic. The pace is slow and focuses mostly on the investigation/interrogation of witnesses. As we know the identity of the killer, and the author tells us throughout who all the players in the crimes are, there is an overall lack of suspense, making it difficult to class this as a mystery or a thriller. However, it is an entertaining read, with good characters and good dialogue. 3.5 stars
    • 4/5
      First read of this author. I enjoy stories like this. Will definitely check out more.
    • 3/5
      In Hidden Prey, teenager Carl Walther murders a Russian, who winds up at a dock in Duluth, Minnesota. Detective Lucas Davenport is given the task of escorting Nadya Kalin, an investigator sent from the Russian government to work on the case. The investigation leads to Carl’s elderly grandfather, who is a former KGB operative. There isn’t a big mystery as to who the killer is, since it is revealed pretty early. The novel follows both Carl and the investigation of the crime until they come to a head.Although the book was fairly well written and had some decent intrigue to it, there is also a serious lack of believability to the novel. Much of it involves the presence of sleeper agents from the old Cold War days. That aspect of it was hard to swallow, and since there wasn’t much mystery to the murder, the novel falls a bit flat. Still there was a solid entertainment component to it. This isn’t a must read, but you could do worse.Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
    • 4/5
      When a Russian freighter docks in the Cities, no one cares. Not until one of the Russians gets extremely dead and it appears he wasn't exactly what he seemed, that is. Lucas, with some help from a beautiful foreign agent, is on the case.Far-fetched and entertaining as always.
    • 5/5
      Kept its fast pace all the way through. Constant build to an ending I didn’t expect.
    • 5/5
      A Russian gets killed up in Duluth, and Lucas Davenport meets a Russian cop up there. There are more murders by a radical Communist group that lost contact with the motherland long ago.
    • 4/5
      I think this may have been the shortest book by Sandford, yet took me the longest to read. Davenport is bored and I'm bored, and while I think it's a deliberate act, not an unintended consequence of Sandford's writing, something's gotta give. Lucas is not the stay home with the wife and kids kind of guy and although he's aging, his brain is craving something to challenge it. I hope, for both our sakes, he finds something soon.
    • 4/5
      Gripping mystery of aging cell of Russian spies, the leader of whom trains his great-grandson to become a lethal killer.
    • 4/5
      If you've never read a Lucas Davenport crime novel, the good news is that you jump in anywhere you like. Each book is self-contained, with a relationships and politics spanning the series with little effect on the main stories. Hidden Prey is a great place to start.It's a well driven plot, with twists and turns, great new characters and is compulsive reading. As ever, the body count rises and Lucas, our sarcastic and beloved hero, is clearly on form. If anyone throught the series was stale than this is a sign that Sandford knows how to reenergise an old formula and can inject life in to Lucas's aging bones yet. There are moments of great humour as well as suspense, a page turner until the end.
    • 4/5
      John Sandford is still going strong in the fifteenth installment of the Lucas Davenport series. Would have liked to see more than a hint that Letty (from the previous book) was living with Weather and Lucas. I was so happy to see that her character was still around and then... she's away on a school trip... for the whole book?? What's up with that? Still a good, strong book.
    • 2/5
      Perverted killer with an assumed identity is viciously abducting and killing people. Agents Davenport and Sloan are interesting characters but this is not my type of mystery.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book but I would have enjoyed it more if there was less bad language. I liked that we knew who the killer was the whole time and we were with the police while they tried to figure out who dun it. It is about a boy whos family came to the U.S. to be spies. Generations of spies have dwindled, but this boys grandfather is teaching him how to get rid of people that he thinks are interfearing with their purpose,
    • 4/5
      John Sandford writes great detective mysteries. His prey novels are all about the charactor Davenport. The mysteries generally deal with serial killers in and around the twin cities.This book takes place primarily in the Iron Range (northern Minnesota). In this book Sandford is braching out into spies and espionage. I am not so sure this is a good idea for him. It makes me fear he's running out of good ideas to throw at Davenport and is going to start escalating things to ridiculous levels. This book was fine but I hope he's careful about future cases.
    • 3/5
      Possibly the weakest of the otherwise excellent series of Prey novels. The murder/spies/thriller combo plot gets out of hand, and there are too many characters to care about.