Mind Prey | John Sandford | Victims as victors...

Mind Prey | John Sandford | Disturbing and gripping - this will stay in your dreams . . . or nightmares

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Mind Prey

	Mind Prey John Sandford Berkley, 1996 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 55 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lucas Davenport risks his sanity in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Victims as victors...

I'll second the other rave reviews of the seventh book in Sandford's Prey series! It IS the best so far (although I have a soft spot for Winter Prey where Lucas meets Weather). Sandford creates ironic suspense as Lucas encounters the game-playing villain but fails to recognize him. The kidnapped psychologist Andi Manette and her daughters Genevieve and Grace are as real as Lucas and John Mail - they're imaginative, resourceful and doggedly enduring in planning to get themselves out of this. No sitting and waiting to be rescued for them! One can't help but remember Kate's gutsy escape from Casanova's den in Patterson's Kiss the Girls, but Sandford's solution is realistic, grindingly slow, and you're not sure they will succeed - much better! Some consider these books too gory and graphic. Maybe so, but the gore is never gratuitous, and there are real heroes/heroines as well as more ordinary pitiable villains.

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Disturbing and gripping - this will stay in your dreams . . . or nightmares

John Mail - the antagonist of this novel - is the sort of psychopath of which nightmares are made. Years after being committed by Andi Mannette, he finds himself again obsessing over her; so, he kidnaps her, and both her daughters. Andi is, however, from a wealthy family with many connections, and her estranged husband is also wealthy with connections, so a media storm is immediately created, leaving Lucas Davenport roasting on the spit as he runs to beat the clock and find Andi and her daughters, before it is too late.

There are many scenes that are disturbing and graphic concerning Mail's treatment of Andi; many might find these difficult to get through (I know I did) however, they are not only important to the story but they also get across Mail's attitude toward Andi, which is very ambivalent.

So much happens - this story is so tautly paced - that it seems the events take place over a much longer time frame than just five days, but that is all that goes by. As I noted in the review title - very gripping story. Highly recommended.

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One of the Best in the Series

MIND PREY is the seventh book in the "Lucas Davenport" series by John Sandford. It is also one of the best ones.

There isn't a dull moment in this book. The plot is a straightforward kidnapping story, but it still has a lot of exciting twists and turns. MIND PREY is also a whodunit, because the kidnapper is being assisted by someone whose identity isn't revealed until late in the story. There are also some interesting developments in Davenport's personal life in this novel also.

John Sandford is one of the biggest thriller writers out there, and this book demonstrates why he's so popular. MIND PREY is fast paced, fun, and exciting. It's a real pleasure to read. I rank this book up there with Sanford's best, which includes efforts such as RULES OF PREY, EYES OF PREY, and WINTER PREY. My advice is to read the series in order for maximum enjoyment, however.

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Great Quick Read, Very Interesting

Just got into reading the "Prey Series". This book was a quick read and very well written. Looking forward to reading the rest.

Another reliable "Prey" novel

Entertaining, fast-reading thriller with a little meat on its bones. I like the way Lucas Davenport is a conservative, tough-as-nails crime fighter ("What about the rights of the victim?" would be a perfectly believable Davenport quotation), yet counts as his very favorite people his sensitive nun friend Elle and his liberal girlfriend Weather. Makes for some good character interaction. "Mind Prey" combines the cat-and-mouse plot of a thriller where we know who the psychopath is from the outset, thus letting us get right to the chase, with the puzzle of a whodunit, as an unknown figure is influencing and manipulating the psycho from the shadows. And amid all the chasing and figuring out, Lucas has to decide whether or not to actually give Weather the engagment ring he's been carrying around in his pocket. In other words, lots of fun stuff going on. You really should start at the beginning of the Lucas Davenport series ("Rules of Prey"), but there wouldn't be any huge harm done if you sampled the series with this lightning-fast entry and then jump in at the beginning if you like it. Myself, I can't imagine someone being a crime thriller fan and not reading John Sandford's "Prey" series.

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