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 enlarge | Author: John Sandford
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 343
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0399155007
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399155000
ASIN: 0399155007
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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Condition: Brand New bce
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 One of the Best Prey books yet July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
No need to go into the plot....that's been done in many reviews. Surfice to say that I've read every book in the "Prey" series and most of Sandford's other books. This was one of the best yet. Lucas Davenport gave us everything we've come to expect and more. Fabulous! John Sandford hasn't lost a step. I don't understand any of the negative reviews...did they read the same book?
 SPOILER!!!! Don't read unless you've read the book July 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
OK, I have read the entire series. I like Sandford's writing, and this book does not disappoint in this area. But the plot. . . .
Spoiler Alert
The split personality thing is the laziest form of deception in mysteries. It's been done to death, and never convincingly. It's just an easy way for an author to misdirect the reader, and its not very interesting or realistic. C'mon create a real plot. For the split personality thing, you really have to CARE about the person, and no effort is put into that here. See, Three, in which the author invested you heavily in the character that turned out to be fractured. Still not a great book, but the concept is better than this.
 Stop Me if You've Read the One About the Dual Personalities July 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Phantom Prey is a disappointment for many reasons, but the main one is that you've seen this story on so many 'soap operas' that it's past being stale. It still has the good flavor of a Sandford novel but the plotting and the karmic/fantasy stuff is just not his speed. The genre seems to be somewhere between Stephen King and James Lee Burke, with a little Robert Parker thrown in.
The book starts with a murder and ends with a killing. In between people are killed to help other to 'the other side' by psychotic personalities. There is also a 'presence' that "has" sex with the protagonist but she complains that he's cold. Ok, so we've all read stories where the shooter is totally off the wall (think of the 'Niki Sanders' from 'Heroes') but one of the personalities is a cold blooded killer.
There is also a secondary story, which only ties into the first plot as some place for Lucas and Del to meet and tell dirty jokes and watch a pregnant woman get undressed. All through this side-plot they talk about the woman's pregnancy. Del keeps complaining to Lucas that his wife Cheryl has some 'stomach bug' and spends half the morning throwing up. His wife is a nurse, and Davenport's wife is a doctor. Uh, gee you think she ate some bad fish? Give me a break. Is every guy in America so dumb that he can't guess that his wife might be pregnant? Secondary plot was totally unnecessary.
The ending was telegraphed so early in the book that I was amazed that Sandford was able to keep it interesting until it happened ten pages from the end. That's why the third star, if not it would have been two stars.
Zeb Kantrowitz
Phantom Prey July 14, 2008
John Sandford does it again. Lucas Davenport is fabulous---again.
John, write more Lucas Davenport soon.
Not the Best Davenport By a Long Shot July 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
About halfway through this book I was trying to figure out how it might end - I'd been tossed so many red herrings along the way and given so many characters and names and subplots to think about that my head hurt.
Finally I pushed myself to the end and finished it, but found the whole experience less than satisfying in a Davenport mystery (and I have read them all).
With about 30 pages left, Lucas has this (almost out of nowhere) revelation that ties up the whole case and then speeds us to the end in a hurry. (Even a misspelling of "upstairs" at the bottom of page 329 - what happened to spell-check?)
With the whole Siggy subplot eating up pages, I just found it to be confused, complex and feel that Sandford has given us better before. And hopefully will again.
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