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	Chosen Prey John Camp Berkley, 2002 - 383 pages average customer review:based on 95 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lucas Davenport is the brilliant Deputy Chief who, despite the difficulties he sees the future will bring, takes on the mission to stop the killings and find out who is the one behind it all.
Sandford is a brilliant writer and once you start reading it, there's no way out. His way of writing makes you feel that you're in the middle of it all, experiencing and seeing everything through the eyes of the writer.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves ficion!!

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Wow! Can't wait to get my hands on the others!

This was the first John Sandford book I have read, and I have to totally disagree will all that say this is a stand alone book. It does quick well alone, and now that I know there are others in the series I will go back and read them as well.

Lucas Davenport chases a serial killer through this novel who has more fashion sense then conscience. His only leads in the beginning are some poorly (at least in the eyes of the art community) sketched drawings of the now deceased women, and a huntch or two.

The character of Lucas Davenport feels very human, and his creator leaves you no choice other than to admire him for his skill as a detective, his sense of right and wrong, his ability to do what he thinks is right no matter what the cost, and his pateince with life as it throws one curve after another his way.

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4 1/2 Stars -- A Real Page-Turner!

Be prepared to rarely get up from your seat once you start Chosen Prey. Sandford's characters are very credible, three dimensional and well-developed, and Lucas Davenport continues to be one of the more interesting "good guys" in crime fiction. The plot is very suspenseful and riveting. In typical Sandord style, there is no surprise as to who the killer is, yet the need for non-stop reading of his books is to see how the killer is caught. If you've read some of the other books in the "Prey" series, you'll know that how the criminal is brought to justice is not always in the way you'd suspect. Chosen Prey is a book I think you'll enjoy very much. As I said, though, be prepared to delay other things you need to do because you won't want to put this book down. It's well worth you're time and money.

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Another good read

Chosen Prey is one of Sandford's better efforts in this series. The storyline is suspenseful and fast-paced as usual though the villain is a little more down to earth than the usual drug-using freaks Sandford typically supplies us with. In fact, it is this aspect of the story that sets it apart from his previous works in that this was a character that on some levels and in some aspects, most people can relate to as regards his everyday life. Chances are, if you're looking at this book, you've already read at least some of the Prey series and are hooked like the rest of us. This one doesn't disappoint.

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Not bad, but his who-dunits are better

This one wasn't bad, but most of his Prey books are either whodunits where the reader is constantly trying to guess the killer's identity, or the type like this book where you know the killer from the beginning, and just watch as Lucas tries to figure out what we already know. A lot of the early ones in the series were whodunits, not many of them are now.

I prefer the whodunits (at least the ones where the reader has a reasonable chance of figuring it out); this book follows the formula where Lucas turns up reams and reams of clues, getting closer, closer, then farther again, then closer, and so on; and finally a few clues fall into the place and the hunt is on.

It gets tedious at times, with only the hilariously crude male banter between the cops, and the verbal abuse of druggie contacts providing entertainment. We knew eventually a connection would be made, although you wonder why it took him so long to think of the son once he started talking to Mrs Qatar.

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