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    Silent Prey
    Silent Prey
    Silent Prey
    Audiobook11 hours

    Silent Prey

    Written by John Sandford

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

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    About this audiobook

    In Eyes of Prey, Bekker, an insane pathologist who experiments with his patients' pain thresholds, is finally brought down by an unrelenting Lucas Davenport, who brutally maims the doctor's beautiful face but leaves him alive. "You should have killed me," were Bekker's parting and prophetic words. In this sequel to Eyes of Prey, Bekker endures the indignities and horrors of imprisonment, taking comfort in the fact that it is only a matter of time before he will make Lucas Davenport pay.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 13, 2012
    ISBN9781464041860
    Silent Prey
    Author

    John Sandford

    John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of thirty-three Prey novels, two Letty Davenport novels, four Kidd novels, twelve Virgil Flowers novels, three YA novels co-authored with his wife, Michele Cook, and five stand-alone books.

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    • 5/5
      This is one of those books I just could not put down. Totally enjoyed the story the characters everything about it. Totally awesome.
    • 3/5
      This book takes place pretty quickly after Book 3 Eyes of Prey. I admit I was dreading this book because it was two of my least favorite characters back. Lily and the villain Bekker. I never bought Lily as a serious love interest for Davenport and Bekker was not a great villain. He was evil and gruesome but just didn’t seem worthy of two books. I found the sections from Bekker’s point of view to be completely uninteresting and just wasn’t into those parts of the story. Bekker just seemed to be a quick reactive thinker and not an actual criminal mastermind worthy of Lucas’ talent. These were the times I was just hoping the book would hurry up and get through. I feel like the author knew this as well and threw in the “Robin Hood” to drive up the intensity.

      The “Robin Hood” storyline seemed to be a last minute add like the author didn’t make his page count and needed something to add some more time/pages to the story. The author introduced this storyline fairly quickly but then it was only discussed a few more times until the climatic ending. I guess after reading the other books I was expecting more.

      I still love the Davenport character though and wasn’t disappointed in the switch to New York as other reviewers were. This switch up allowed John Sanford to showcase Lucas as a true detective not just some hick from a small town. Lucas’ instincts are on point and you could see him work through things in his mind.
    • 4/5
      3.5 Stars For some reason (and I can't quite put my finger on it) I didn't enjoy this book in the series as much as I have the previous books. Hopefully the next book in the series will prove to be a more engaging read once again.
    • 1/5
      couldn't get into it
    • 5/5
      Usually back cover book descriptions give away too much. Here it didn’t tell me enough. Billed as the revenge story of the previous novel's villain, I had no particular interest; Bekker was a character, I felt, not deserving of a return appearance. (As an aside, the author states that at book signings he is one of the two villains mentioned most; shows what I know.) Silent Prey involves so much more. Bekker’s escape to New York allows an old colleague and love interest the opportunity to enlist Lucas Davenport’s help on two fronts: outwardly to recapture Bekker; and secretly to help uncover a deeper problem. Over the past five years strategically-targeted, low-level bad guys have been professionally murdered, and it’s beginning to look like a small band of rogue cops are responsible. Lucas has a very public reason to be put in the suspected cops’ midst without suspicion. The concurrent investigations keep Lucas busy and the reader engrossed. Also, this is early Sandford so not everything is revealed to the reader until the end. I greatly regret having initially skipped it.
    • 5/5
      Doctor Death is back. The serial killer Michael Bekker aka Doctor Death is back. After being arrested and beaten up by Lucas Davenport in a previous novel, Bekker escapes prison and sets himself up in New York. Bodies start turning up, and Davenport's ex-lover New York cop Lily Rothenburg calls to Davenport for help. He is not working with the Minneapolis Police anymore, but uses his time developing computer games. He welcomes the chance to work with Lily, and goes to New York. He soon finds out that Lily and her chief of Police O'Dell has a hidden agenda. Davenport is not called to New York only to solve the Bekker case, there is a "Robin Hood" on the loose in New York, killing "bad guys" and everything points to someone inside the police department. Davenport is asked to figure this mystery out, while he officially works solving the Bekker case.

      There are many layers in this story, but it never becomes boring, and the characters are likeable or realistic. A good read in the Lucas Davenport series.
    • 4/5
      When a vicious serial killer from Davenport's past resurfaces in New York, Lily (with whom Davenport also shares a past) calls for help. But is he really there to catch a killer? Or is she setting him up to be bait for a gang of dirty cops.Lucas out of his element. Except he really isn't, at least not so you'd notice. Good read, but Bekker's just creepy. Not my favorite.
    • 3/5
      Silent Prey is basically a continuation of the previous book in the series, Eyes of Prey. Serial killer Mike Bekker escapes from jail and decides that the best place for him to hide and continue his "research" is New York City. New York policewoman Lily Rothenburg, first seen in Shadow Prey, asks Lucas for his help, but not for what everyone would expect. Under the guise of helping the NYC police force find Bekker, Lucas is really there to sniff out the city’s Robin Hood, a duo (or more) of cops who are taking justice into their own hands.I almost gave up early on this book. I started listening to it, and the narrator was sort of awful. His voice and cadence was VERY DRAMATIC. Which was fine for Bekker’s point of view, but made it hard to distinguish just who was the POV character if I wasn’t paying close enough attention. But despite that, it was a decent book (thankfully I also had a hard copy). In one way it’s interesting to get Davenport out of his usual element, but I missed some of his supporting cast.This is a good go-to series when you’re looking for a police procedural/thriller.
    • 3/5
      This book was a hard one for me to follow the story and the characters. At time's I was lost. I almost gave up on it, but decided to finish it to see how it all tied in. So...I liked the ending, a few twists, but this wasn't one of my favorite reads. If I could do half stars, it would probably be a 2.5 for me.
    • 5/5
      Dr. Michael Bekker, a psychotic pathologist, is back on the streets, and doing what he does best - murdering one helpless victim after another. Lucas Davenport should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. Now he has a second chance.
    • 3/5
      This was a continuation of Eyes of Prey and I'm glad to say that's over now. Again, the amount of drugs taken by the killer was just too impossible to believe. And this one was a bit gorier than before. However, it was interesting to see how Davenport is lazy in his pursuit of women and that he can't seem to go long without one. I am glad that there may be a possibility of Lily showing up in the future and would also like to see Sandford move Davenport into the South for a while. I think having him work in Charleston, Savannah, even Atlanta would be interesting reading.
    • 3/5
      Sequel to the previous book, Eyes of Prey, this book takes Lucas Davenport to NYC, where he hooks up with yet another sad woman and gets his heart broken by the previous sad woman, Lily. Crazy killer Bekker is back. What am I doing spending my summer reading nothing but these books?
    • 4/5
      Davenport is back with his womanizing ways and is trying to re-catch a particularly sick serial killer, as well as uncover a vigilante group in the NYPD. Good book, actually kept a secret about the killer until it was actually revealed to Davenport from me.
    • 5/5
      I crave these books! As soon as they are off the press I grab and read knowing it is a great mystery with well researched police investigative techniques.