num_pages: 422
description: With Naked Prey, John Sandford proved again that his writing is as fresh and compulsively readable as ever. "This is vintage Sandford, which is to say all but impossible to put down," said The Washington Post. "Sprawling, suspenseful, tough-minded [and] sheer fun."Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Orslov is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why, everybody-the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves-has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan.A Russian cop flies in from Moscow, Davenport flies in from Minneapolis, law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene-and, in the middle of it all, there is another murder. Is there a relationship between the two? What is the Russian cop hiding from Davenport? Is she-yes, it's a woman-a cop at all? Why was the man shot with . . . fifty-year-old bullets? Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there-shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.
language: English
title: Hidden Prey
titlecomplete: Hidden Prey (Lucas Davenport, #15)
characters: The man in Moscow, David Letterman (Jack & Jill), Marcy Sherrill, Rashid Al-Balah, Chuck Miles, Slattery and Jones, Karl Marx (Time Bomb), Nadya Kalin, Stalin (Stalin's Ghost), Jerry Reasons, George Armstrong Custer (Hidden Prey), Annabelle "Trey" Ramford, Bob and Carol Spivak, Corine Maples, James Wolfe and James Wolfe Jr., Burt Walther, Vladimir Putin (The Dame with the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Kurt Maisler, Trick Bentoin, Piotr Nikitin, Anthony Spivak, Sister Mary Joseph / Elle Kruger, Aaron Copland (Hidden Prey), Del Capslock, Tony Bennett (Hidden Prey), The Witolds, Andy Harmon, Rose Marie Roux, Frank Sinatra (The Four Wives of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Charles Peyton, Lauren Hutton (Hidden Prey), Jack Spratt (Hidden Prey), Lou and Anne Witold, Maxwell Smart (Hidden Prey), Roy Hopper, Roger Carpenter, Letty West, Neil Mitford, Carl Walther, Bob Dylan (Fool Me Twice), Louis Mallard, Grandma Walther, Kellogg (Hidden Prey), 'George' at the university, Jan (Hidden Prey), Sergey Vasilevich Botenkov, The 911 supervisor, Rodion Oleshev, Lenin (Time Bomb), Weather Karkinnen, Rick Svoboda, Jennifer Carey, Roger Walther, Larry Kelly, Dick Bender and Micky Andreno, Friedrich Engels (Time Bomb), Doctor Chu, Lucas Davenport, Mary Wheaton, John Terry (Hidden Prey), Dannie Carson, Governor Henderson, Chick Daniels, Barbara Langersham, Jeanne McGovern, June Cleaver (Night and Day)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Detective, Adult Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 18338
places: Hibbing, Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
series: Lucas Davenport
publisher: Pocket Books