Like many homicides, it wasn't supposed to happen that way. The three gangsters who broke into the hospital pharmacy had planned to grab bags an... read full description
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Jul 12, 2011
Kemper
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Storm Prey is the twentieth entry in the Prey series. Add in the four books about Kidd, three with Virgil Flowers and two stand-alone novels, and that’s a total of twenty-nine John Sandford novels. I’ve read them all, and I’ll probably keep reading if he writes another twenty-nine. So yeah, I guess you could say I'm a fan.
When a group of bikers rob a Minneapolis hospital pharmacy for a fortune in drugs, it seems like the perfect plan. Except that they manage to kill a hospital More...
When a group of bikers rob a Minneapolis hospital pharmacy for a fortune in drugs, it seems like the perfect plan. Except that they manage to kill a hospital More...
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Oct 04, 2011
Jack
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I’m hooked on John Sandford’s “Prey” novels, featuring the emotionally complex Lucas Davenport, and have several friends who are as well. Last year’s Storm Prey was the 20th. The first, Rules of Prey, came out in 1989. That puts him at a book a year, except he’s launched two other series, Kidd and Virgil Flowers and has written a couple others besides. The point is, John Sandford has fallen prey to the New York publishing mill, turning out more and more and, at least for me, satisfying less and
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Aug 31, 2011
Mal
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A Series of Suspense Novels That's Going Strong After Two Decades
Storm Prey is the 20th novel (out of 21) in the “Prey” series. Why? What makes a series of crime novels sell so well and for so many years?
After all, when the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Sandford started writing fiction in 1989, he completed two books, one of them, Rules of Prey, the first in this series. The other was the first entry in another, short-lived sereries that Sandford left behind after More...
Storm Prey is the 20th novel (out of 21) in the “Prey” series. Why? What makes a series of crime novels sell so well and for so many years?
After all, when the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Sandford started writing fiction in 1989, he completed two books, one of them, Rules of Prey, the first in this series. The other was the first entry in another, short-lived sereries that Sandford left behind after More...
May 18, 2011
Elizabeth
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Sandford is one of those reliably good writers of police detective fiction you can count on when you are pressed for time to make a selection etc. This is a difficult book with lots of murder and mayhem and graphic details of some of it. The counterpoint is the controlled (but still gory) details of a complex surgery to separate conjoined twins. The descriptions of cold winter weather in Minnesota could only be written by someone who knows it well. He sets the scene and develops his characte
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Apr 28, 2011
Kathy
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This volume of John Sandford's Prey series gives more attention to the criminals and to Lucas' wife, the surgeon Weather Karkinnen, is part of the team that is separating two Siamese twin babies. Lucas is not in total control of the murder case, he makes mistakes.
A non-too-smart Lebanese ER physician at Weather's hospital is abusing drugs and is out of money. He persuades some bungling low-level crooks to steal about a half million dollars worth of drugs from the hospital pharmacy. The More...
A non-too-smart Lebanese ER physician at Weather's hospital is abusing drugs and is out of money. He persuades some bungling low-level crooks to steal about a half million dollars worth of drugs from the hospital pharmacy. The More...
Mar 19, 2011
James
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As I've said before here, I'm a huge fan of John Sandford's "Prey" series. I think that Lucas Davenport, Sandford's main protagonist, is a marvelously-imagined character, and Sandford has surrounded him with a great supporting cast. I especially love the humor in the books, which seems appropriate even in the darkest situations. If this isn't the way cops actually talk to one another, it probably should be. Additionally, Sandford has written some really good plots, often making it impo
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Dec 04, 2010
Fennecgirl
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I've sat on this book for some time now - Sandford is my favorite author and I just wasn't ready for to turn the final page without knowing when I'd be able to get my hands on the next in the series (which I now see is early 2011).
Unfortunately this book never made it up to par with the titles in the earlier series, but that's been the case since Davenport lost some of his his appeal by getting married, having kids, etc. And the characters just aren't as intriguing as some of the crimi More...
Unfortunately this book never made it up to par with the titles in the earlier series, but that's been the case since Davenport lost some of his his appeal by getting married, having kids, etc. And the characters just aren't as intriguing as some of the crimi More...
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Aug 13, 2010
Wayne
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A master of the mystery genre. Sanford's pacing of the plot is impeccable and the way his recurring protagonist, Lucas Davenport, solves the crime is very believable. It has been many years since I read the first Prey book and so I may not be remembering correctly but it seems to me that Sanford may be mellowing. In my mind his early novels were almost horror novels, more like Silence of the Lamb; while these latest Prey novels seem to me to have less gore and thrills and more detailed detective
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Jun 02, 2010
Ilsa
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Jul 29, 2011
Jeff
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The 20th of Sandford's 'Prey' series and possibly one of the best. John Sandford usually does not disappoint when it comes to the villains of his books, bringing us some of the most disturbed, diabolical, and interesting foes for his Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport, and 'Storm Prey' is no exception to this. It all starts off with a robbery at one of the Twin Cities hospital pharmacies and takes us on a taught journey through the back woods of Wisconsin and the seedier parts of Minneapolis. In m
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Jul 02, 2010
Kristin
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John Sandford is such a guy's author- the language is coarse, the jokes are dirty, and the style of writing is very blunt- but I love him anyway. There's something so appealing about a protagonist who is as flawed as Lucas but who I find myself rooting for anyway. The great thing about these books is how the narrator lets us in on everything- there's really no "whodunit" aspect, in fact we usually know whodunit in the first 50 pages, but I am still glued to every page in anticipation
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Jun 13, 2010
Amanda
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I am stupidly dedicated to the Prey series and I will probably always love me some Lucas Davenport. And Virgil Flowers. But I've been wondering: what happened?? Why is the Prey series now a run of the mill mystery?
Lucas is incredibly intelligent, shrewd and will kill you if he needs to. He used to go up against some intelligent, shrewd killers in previous books but the last few have been disappointing. He's having to go against some of the dumbest damn people ever. There's no mystery o More...
Lucas is incredibly intelligent, shrewd and will kill you if he needs to. He used to go up against some intelligent, shrewd killers in previous books but the last few have been disappointing. He's having to go against some of the dumbest damn people ever. There's no mystery o More...
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May 24, 2010
Giovanni
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Happy Monday to everybody. The week before Memorial Day is upon us and we have an awesome lineup this week. He it is in a nutshell:
Today- Storm Prey
Tuesday- Lee Child -61 Hours
Wednesday- Mark Greaney Guest Post –Author of The Gray Man
Thursday- Richard Thomas- Transubstantiate
Friday-Graphic Novel –Supreme-The Story of the Year
Saturday- Jack Coughlin- Clean Kill- A Marine Sniper Novel
Sunday-Richard Marcinko/Rogue Warrior Richard Marcinko
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Apr 29, 2011
Daniel
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Storm Prey is now one of my favorite books by John Sandford. Tight, really tight writing. Also, minimal description was needed because of great dialogue and narration. Sandford is at the top of his game with this series featuring Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers, and this installment in particular, for me, is one of the standouts in the entire body of Prey Series works. The pair work well together well out of the norm of "cop" behavior and the wit and humor between them is truly funn
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Jan 26, 2011
Paula
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just the latest in the lucas davenport prey series, storm prey follows lucas, his wife weather, and their growing family through another crisis. after three stupid lowlifes botch a robbery at weather's hospital, and end up killing a pharmacist, weather happens to see the driver of the get away van as she is coming to work. bodies begin to pile up as the bad guys try to cover their tracks, only to make the situation worse and worse, and weather ends up on their hit list. all of lucas' old bu
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May 25, 2010
Jeff
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John Sandford has been at the crime thriller game for over two decades now, and it is easy to dismiss that achievement as simply scaling the mountain of pulpy fiction success. But every May I buy his new book because I read the series in tandem with my mother, and then am lost for several days in the rush of his talent. Because what he does is not easy. And when I say several days, it's because he delivers that page-turning pump of power time after time after time. His latest is a perfect ex
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Sep 29, 2011
Danny
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This was my first John Sandford novel, and so it was my first in the Prey series as well. I'm hooked! After hearing John Sandford speak at Thrillerfest, I was inspired to try the series. I don't know how this compares to other Prey novels, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The pacing and structure are the work of a skilled craftsman. Sandford ups the ante so gradually and seamlessly that the hooks get into you without warning. And then the night is shot and you're up till 3am reading. I wasn't
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May 12, 2010
Samantha
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I love the Prey series by John Sandford. This is his 20th book and some of it is getting tiredsome. I can't give it 5 stars because again the plot is about Lucas Davenport's wife, Weather being followed, chased and more. It's getting old. It seems like if they aren't after Letty then they are after Weather. However, Mr. Sandford makes up for it by bringing in numerous villians in this book including a fellow doctor at Weather's hospital. I enjoyed the fast pace of the book and it has a lot of go
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Jun 01, 2010
RM
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Sandford definitely did it again; the story is fast-paced, witty, full of suspense and with many unpredictable twists and turns. Sandford is still able to keep Davenport fresh and humane even in his twentieth adventure; Lucas is not slowing down and he is not becoming a bore to the readers. To the contrary, he is doing better than ever and can hold the attention up throughout the entire 408 pages.
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Jul 31, 2010
Johnny
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OK OK I admit it -- I am hooked on Sandford and the Prey series-- If I was to rate the book standing on its own I would have to push the pen hard to get to three stars -- However if you are a fan this is yet another of the series-- I am worried though that Sandford is lying down on the job -- just run of the mill stories jotted down knowing many of us will buy the next book -- common John get with it don't let the adage that an author has but one great book in them --
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Jan 19, 2011
Gina
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Some days I dislike the fact that when I start a book, especially the latest in a series I've enjoyed reading, I'm not sure if the author will be able to continue romancing his audience with the same character. Sandford does it again though with another page-turner, as we follow Lucas through the twists and turns of investigation to discover and bring to justice the men currently hunting his wife. Virgil makes his appearance, along with many other characters involved in Davenport's world that
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Jul 14, 2011
Laura
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I have read most of the Prey novels and find them quite enjoyable. They have a formula yes, but are not always predictable. The returning characters Lucas, Weather, Flowers are comfortable and familiar like your favorite pair if jeans. I hadn't read a Prey novel in a while and really enjoyed this one. It dives into Weathers profession as a surgeon, which is different and interesting. Yes, one must wonder how these guys get themselves into such binds, but suspend that disbelief and enjoy a g
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Jun 23, 2010
Jackie
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I absolutely could not finish this. I was so weary of the foul language that contributed nothing to the plot/action/reading enjoyment.
I couldn't even find anything to like about the characters. Yes, I understand Lucas Davenport is a hero, but really....Why couldn't he figure out that if his wife could describe the villains she saw, they could also identify her and come after her? What kind of "smart" guy is this?
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I couldn't even find anything to like about the characters. Yes, I understand Lucas Davenport is a hero, but really....Why couldn't he figure out that if his wife could describe the villains she saw, they could also identify her and come after her? What kind of "smart" guy is this?
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Jul 05, 2010
Jenny
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Stayed up way too late reading this book! Sandford is a wonderful writer and I couldn't put it down. So many reviews of this already so you know the plot. Robbing the hospital pharmacy and Weather spotting the thieves was a logical way to bring Lucas into the story. I also enjoy the Virgil Flowers stories so expected he would be more involved in the investigation; instead he was Weather's bodyguard and on the sidelines during most of the book. Sandford did a good job of developing the bad gu
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Nov 12, 2011
Bruce
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This is book #20 in the Lucas Davenport series by John Sandford. This time out a group of local thugs commits a strong armed robbery at the pharmacy in the hospital in which Davenport's wife, Weather, works. Because Weather sees the robbers as they are making their get-away, Lucas gets involved in the investigation. As with most of Sandford's books by the end, the body is high and climbing, but the action is good, and the story engaging - and as an added attraction, Virgil Flowers plays a sig
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Jun 06, 2011
Coco
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This book was on a par with Sandford's other recent works. They're okay, but not great. The pharmacy at the hospital where Lucas' wife, Weather, works is robbed and a man is killed. Weather happens to see two of the people involved and they decide they have to get rid of her. There's no real mystery and Lucas' family being threatened is a device that's been used before so it's kind of been there, done that. If I hadn't read the earlier, much better Prey books, I might have liked this more. But i
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Feb 27, 2011
Rachel
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I hadn't read any Prey books in a while... and this one was not the best to go back to. This will sound odd but I really couldn't stand reading about the bad guys in this story. They were so dumb! It seemed like more of the story was spent on them than the chase to find them - and thus it bothered me to waste my time reading about them. I admit that I had to keep reading to find out how the story progressed - but I didn't really enjoy the story. Not all bad guys are dumb... ok they don't make th
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Jul 29, 2011
Probably not the most thoughtful of the Lucas Davenport series, but Sandford delivers another enjoyable and exciting story. Mixing in all the favorite characters: Davenport, that fuckin' Flowers, Shrake and Jenkins - so one liners are a fixture throughout. It's a story of a pharmacy raid gone horribly wrong - with literally stupid criminals making all the wrong moves. Sandford may have lost a bit of the edge with Davenport - but that can happen considering he's now married with children. Sti
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May 15, 2011
Marti
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John Sandford's Lucas Davenport series is a favorite of mine, and this one is one of the best. It involves danger to his plastic surgeon wife, Weather Karkinnen as she works on a team separating Siamese twins, theft of hospital drugs, and a number of murders in the Minnesota winter. At one point, Lucas's handmade Italian shoes are ruined. He is wealthy from the sale of his former computer games, though he still works for the BCA--Bureau of Criminal Apprehension,I think, sort of a state FBI. T
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Dec 09, 2010
Betty410
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The favorite characters, Lucas Davenport and his buddies in law enforcement in Minnesota, are chasing a gang who robbed a hospital pharmacy. One of the gang killed an employee in the process. The chase became personal when Weather, a surgeon and Lucas's wife inadvertently saw one of the gang on the elevator and an attempt on her life occurs. The story becomes even more interesting because Heather needs to expose herself daily because she is involved in the surgery to separate cranial adjoining
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