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Some secrets just can't stay buried, in the brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number-one New York Times - bestselling author. "One of the best," said Kirkus Reviews of Storm Prey . "Razor-sharp dialogue, a tautly controlled pace and enough homicides for a miniseries.... read more

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  • Lucas Davenport: Ex hockey player turned detective. Hard nosed and a never say die attitude!
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  • “"This is a good afternoon. I'm chasing a bum through a sewer filled with rabid bats. I can't wait to tell my wife."”
    John Sloan
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  • TIME PASSED; it always does, and the dead don’t come back, and their death becomes more real.
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  • “There’s a thing on the Net known as a corollary to Godwin’s Law, which says that the first guy to mention Nazis in a discussion, loses,”
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  • The Fool’s Run The Empress File The Devil’s Code The Hanged Man’s Song   VIRGIL FLOWERS NOVELS Dark of the Moon Heat Lightning Rough Country
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  • “Post hoc Ergo propter hoc.” “Bullshit,” Del said. “There’s no such thing as that.” “Sure there is. Logic one-oh-one. After this therefore because of this.
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  • Rules of Prey Shadow Prey Eyes of Prey Silent Prey Winter Prey
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  • supine: that is, whenever he heard people arguing about it, he wanted to lie down and take a nap.
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  • The Night Crew Secret Prey Certain Prey   Easy Prey
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  • chiffonier.”     “WHAT THE FUCK is a chiffonier?” Lucas asked, as they rolled away.
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  • Marcy Sherrill, head of Minneapolis Homicide, turned and looked over her shoulder. Lucas Davenport, a dark-haired, broadshouldered man in black slacks, French-blue shirt, his suit jacket hung by a finger over his shoulder, was trudging down the earthen ramp toward the group around the plastic sepulchre.
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  • apposite little tune, given her contemplation of the boys in her life. . . .     WHILE SHE WAS HEADING SOUTH, the killer was roaming around Bloomington, going back again and again to Kelly Barker’s house, not knowing exactly what he planned to do; whatever it was, he had to wait until she got home, and she’d already kept him waiting so long that he felt the rage starting to burn under his belt buckle. He was one morose
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The first machines on the site were the wreckers, like steel dinosaurs, plucking and pulling at the houses with jaws that ripped off chimneys, shingles, dormers and eaves, clapboard and brick and stone and masonry, beams and stairs and balconies and joists, headers and doorjambs.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 21 of 22 in Lucas Davenport. (standard series)

Preceded by Storm Prey, and followed by Stolen Prey.

This book is in 2011 Published Books. (community list)
This is book 3 of 20 in New York Times Bestsellers - Paperback Mass-Market Fiction (Current). (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Lucky One, and followed by A Game of Thrones.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. John Sandford (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Country: U.S.A
Publication Date: May 10, 2011
ISBN: 978-0399157387
Page Count: 400

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Reading Level: Adults

Strong language and scenes of graphic violence and sex


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