description: Clara Rinker is a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner. She's also the best hitwoman in the business. Lucas Davenport should know - she almost killed him. That was then and this is now. Clara is retired and living in Mexico with her boyfriend, the son of a local drug lord. But her new life is shattered when a sniper's bullet narrowly misses her and kills her boyfriend. The boy's father vows vengeance, but Rinker knows something he doesn' the boy wasn't the target - she was. Now she is going to have to disappear to find the killer herself. The FBI and DEA draft Lucas Davenport to help track down the missing assassin, and with his fiance deep in wedding preparations, he's really just as happy to go - but he has no idea what he's getting into. For Rinker is as unpredictable as ever, and between her, her old bosses in the St. Louis mob, the Mexican druglord, and the combined, sometimes warring, arms of U.S. law enforcement, this is one case that will get more dangerous as it goes along. And when the shooting starts, anyone standing in the middle won't stand a chance...
language: English
title: Mortal Prey
titlecomplete: Mortal Prey (Lucas Davenport, #13)
characters: Ralph Lauren (Mortal Prey), Nanny Dichter, Frank Lloyd Wright (Mortal Prey), Rayla and Geoffrey, Elmer Henderson, The ERU Officer, Jimmy Cricket, Charles Addams, The get-away driver, Johnny Cash (Bye Bye Baby), Clara Rinker, The Singing Nun (Mortal Prey), Paul Dallaglio, Gianfranco Ferre (Mortal Prey), Sloan (Eyes of Prey), Jackie Burke (Mortal Prey), Rose Marie Roux, Tom and Michelle Lawton, Ann Diaz, Tom Black (Chosen Prey), The red-haired agent, Louis Mallard, T.J. Baker, Striker, Allenby, Lane and Jones, Gene Rinker, Israel Coen, Dorothy Pollock, John Sellos, Officer Swanson, Lucas Davenport, Del Capslock, Nancy Leighton, Moby Dick (Mortal Prey), Sally Bryce, Dan Loftus, Hitler (Mortal Prey), Agent Malone, Raul Mejia, Jaime (Mortal Prey), Andy Levy, Sandy White, Nina Bennett, Weather Karkinnen, Manuel Martin, Honus Johnson, James Qatar, Octavio Diaz, Errol Lamp and Tony McCoy, Frankenstein (Mortal Prey), Barbara Allen, John Ross (Mortal Prey), Marcy Sherrill, Dick Bender and Micky Andreno, Wayne McCallum, Giancati and Ferignetti, Mark Twain (Blood Test), Paulo Mejia, The Godfather (Mortal Prey)
genres: Mystery, Police, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 20277
places: Cancun, Mexico, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, St. Louis, Missouri
series: Lucas Davenport
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Minnesota Book Award
category: Genre
publisher: Gardners Books