基本信息出版社：Pocket Books
页码：455 页
出版日期：2004年06月
ISBN：0743468694
条形码：9780743468695
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

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Abridged read by Eric Conger
Unabridged read by Richard Ferrone

Lucas Davenport finds some changes-and some nasty surprises-in store, in the chilling new Prey novel by the number-one-bestselling author.

Abridged * Four cassettes * 6 hours --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介 This is John Sandford's fourteenth Prey novel, and he is also the author of four other books. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
媒体推荐 From Booklist
A black man and a white woman are discovered hanging from a tree in northern Minnesota. Both are naked. The media labels the crime a lynching, which trumps a run-of-the-mill double murder. Fearing that he'll be a one-term wonder if the case isn't solved quickly, the governor of Minnesota calls Lucas Davenport, who has accepted an appointment to the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The only witness he and his partner, Del Capstock, have is Letty West. She's a 12-year-old who manages for her alcoholic mother and herself by trapping muskrat and raccoon. Her dilapidated home is a mere 200 yards from the hanging tree. She saw headlights on the night of the killing and found the bodies the next morning when she set about clearing her trap lines. She's a tough kid, knows everybody in her small town of Broderick, and is able to provide enough info on the car to help lead Davenport to the killer. But there's no arrest to be made because the killer and his wife have been killed just prior to Lucas' arrival. The crimes must have a common thread, but Lucas can't find it. This fifteenth Prey novel is suspenseful and cleverly plotted, and the denouement is an exhilarating example of ultimate justice convincingly delivered. Sandford has another best-seller here, and it's one of the better entries in a fine series. Wes Lukowsky
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Denver Post
...insightful writing... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
...insightful writing... (Denver Post) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Library Journal, April 15, 2003
...this may be Sandford's best novel yet. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Washington Post, May 12, 2003
Naked Prey is vintage Sandford, which is to say is all but impossible to put down. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


编辑推荐 Amazon.com
When twelve-year-old muskrat trapper Letty West stumbles on the naked bodies of Jane Warr and Deon Cash, deep in the snowy woods of northern Minnesota, it's more than another bizarre episode in her already unusual life, as Lucas Davenport discovers in this new outing in Sandford's popular series featuring the midwestern lawman who moonlights as a computer game designer. Lucas has a new wife, a new baby, and a new job as a political troubleshooter for his old boss Rose Marie Roux, but the blunt-spoken Davenport's instructions to hush the racially charged implications of what looks suspiciously like a lynching won't deter him from whomever left Warr and Cash twisting in the wind. The well-peopled plot, involving a hot car ring, an ex-nun who smuggles cancer drugs over the Canadian border, and the usual internecine wranglings between the FBI, the local cops, and Davenport, races to a satisfying denouement, but this time it's a little girl with a difficult past and an uncertain future who lingers in the reader's mind. Fortunately, Sandford comes up with an ending that makes it all but certain that his fans will meet her again. Meanwhile, all the author's usual trademarks are on display--excellent writing, an interesting scenario, and terrific pacing. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Sandford gets back to basics in this stellar 14th installment of his hugely popular Prey series, focusing on the long-standing duo of Davenport and Capslock. As the novel begins, the indomitable Lucas Davenport (now happily married, a contented father and bored out of his mind) is slogging through the northern tundra of Broderick, Minn., to inspect the naked dangling corpses of a white woman and black man ("They were frozen. Like Popsicles.") that have shocked the locals as well as Minnesota's governor with the ugly specter of a lynching. Davenport, now more or less a free agent for the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension ("I kick people's asses"), is unleashed by the governor, giving Davenport and his scruffy sidekick, Del Capslock, a chance to escape their square city lives and catch the villain(s) while staving off the media vultures, Sandford's trademark subplot. As in previous novels, the original crime (rendered in a truly horrific opening sequence) is merely the gateway to a deeper, more insidious criminal enterprise, this one an international labyrinth of stolen cars, drugs, gambling and kidnapping. Some truly vicious familial machinations in the small town contrast well with Davenport's staid and stable home life. Another pleasant surprise is the precocious Letty West, whose awakening teenage sensibilities make an impression on Davenport. Sandford's usual background details (readers will learn how to run a muskrat trapline and how an Indian casino operates) are deftly woven into the fabric. This latest installment in a series now a decade and a half old is vintage Sandford.
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From AudioFile
In a gravelly voice, Eric Conger narrates the grisly opening of this story of evil. Troubleshooting cop Lucas Davenport rides into town to solve the mystery of a double killing and finds himself with a lot more to contend with. The small town is so mired in a car-thieving, drug-smuggling, kidnapping ring that even the law-enforcement officials are involved. Conger satisfies the listener with his characterizations of tough-guy cops, sniveling criminals, and the innocent, daring young woman wisecracking through it all. The abridged version is a great alternative for those who want to hear the story without the gruesome details. D.L.M. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.