num_pages: 455
description: Lucas Davenport finds some changes in store — and a few of them are nasty — in this chilling novel by the number-one-bestselling author.After thirteen years and thirteen Prey novels, John Sandford's writing is as fresh as ever. His last book, "Mortal Prey," was "a model of the genre" (People) and "the cop novel of the year" (Kirkus Reviews). In the words of the Washington Post: "John Sandford does everything right."In "Naked Prey," he puts Davenport through change. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her. She creates a special troubleshooter job for him for cases that are too complicated or too politically touchy for others to handle. In addition, Lucas is married now and a new father, all of which is fine with him; he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay — and he's waiting for the bill.It comes in the form of two people hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is that the bodies are that of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. "Lynching" is the word everybody's trying not to say — but, as Lucas begins to discover, the murders are nothing like what they appear. There's much worse coming.
language: English
title: Naked Prey
titlecomplete: Naked Prey (Lucas Davenport, #14)
characters: Neil Mitford, Shelley McGuire, Lanny Cole and Jim Green, Sandy Wolf, Mom Singleton, Washington Fowler, Sloan (Eyes of Prey), David Letterman (Jack & Jill), Carl Holme, Dick Anderson, Rose Marie Roux, Wayne Newton (Naked Prey), Joe Barin, Letty Davenport, Clark Hoffman, Wally and Jean, Tom Block, Aron Jaffe, Hank Dickerson, Richard Block, Jane Warr, Martha West, Jenkins and Shrake, Richard Petty (Naked Prey), Hale Sorrell, Katina Lewis, Annie Oakley (Naked Prey), Sister Mary Joseph / Elle Kruger, James Wood, Bruce Dern and Lou Gossett, Lucas Davenport, Del Capslock, Deon Cash, The large man with a beard, Terry Anderson, Linda Carlson, Annie Burke, Joe Kelly, Phil Bussard, Bob Seger (Naked Prey), JoAnne Small Bear, Governor Henderson, Letty West, Ronald Reagan (Naked Prey), Brad Wilson, Henry Ford (Naked Prey), Weather Karkinnen, Mr. Johnson (Naked Prey), Gene Calb, Shawn Davis, Loren Singleton, Bud (Naked Prey), John Wayne (The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns), Roger Elroy, Mickey Mouse (Heart of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Reese Culver, Ruth Lewis, Ellen (Naked Prey), Marcy Sherrill, John McCord, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Naked Prey), Ray Zahn
genres: Mystery, Adult, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 20281
places: Armstrong, Minnesota, Broderick, Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
series: Lucas Davenport
publisher: Simon & Schuster