By: John Sandford
Genre: Thriller
Putnam
May 1, 2009
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Featuring:
416 pages
ISBN: 0399155678
EAN: 9780399155673
Kindle: B0024CEY4K
Hardcover / e-Book
Book Summary
Danger stalks Lucas Davenport at work and all too close
to home, in the superlative new thriller by the #1 New
York Times–bestselling author.
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
stickup men who’ve spotted several lucrative
opportunities, ranging from political moneymen with
briefcases full of cash to that armored-car warehouse 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 in 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 painful enough. Not when Davenport has a
pretty fourteen-year-old adopted daughter that 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. . . . Rich with
his 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).