Silken Prey - (Prey Novel) by John Sandford (Paperback)

About the Book

At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to the Minneapolis police department itself, and then--most troublingly of all--to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, and the money, ruthlessness, and sheer will to make it happen. No matter who gets in the way.

Book Synopsis

Murder. Scandal. Politics. And one billionaire heiress so dangerous in so many ways.

An explosive Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

All hell has broken loose in the capital. An influential state senator has been caught with something very, very nasty on his office computer. The governor can't believe it--the senator's way too smart for that, even if he is from the other party. Something's not right.

As Davenport investigates, the trail leads to a political fixer who has disappeared, then--troublingly--to the Minneapolis police department itself, and most unsettling of all, to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons in manipulation. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work--along with the money, ruthlessness, and cold-blooded will to make it happen.

Review Quotes

Praise for John Sandford's Prey Novels

"Relentlessly swift...genuinely suspenseful...excellent."--Los Angeles Times

"Sandford is a writer in control of his craft."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Excellent...compelling...everything works."--USA Today

"Grip-you-by-the-throat thrills...a hell of a ride."--Houston Chronicle

"Crackling, page-turning tension...great scary fun."--The New York Daily News

"Enough pulse-pounding, page-turning excitement to keep you up way past bedtime."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"One of the most engaging characters in contemporary fiction."--Detroit News

"Positively chilling."--St. Petersburg Times

"Just right for fans of The Silence of the Lambs."--Booklist

"One of the most horrible villains this side of Hannibal."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Ice-pick chills...excruciatingly tense...a double-pumped roundhouse of a thriller."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of twenty-six Prey novels, most recently Extreme Prey; four Kidd novels; nine Virgil Flowers novels; three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook; and three stand-alones, most recently Saturn Run.