num_pages: 424
description: Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business.Now retired and living in Mexico, Clara nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local drug lord. While the man's father vows vengeance, Rinker knows something he doesn't; his son wasn't the target, she was, and now she is going to have to disappear to find the killer herself.The FBI and DEA draft Davenport to help track her down and, with his fiancée deep in wedding preparations, he's really happy to go. But he has no idea what he's getting into. Rinker is as unpredictable as ever, and between her old bosses in the St. Louis mob, the Mexican drug lord, and the combined, sometimes warring, forces of U.S. law enforcement, this is one case that will get more dangerous as it goes along. When the crossfire comes, anyone standing in the middle won't stand a chance! Filled with the rich characterization and exceptional drama that are his hallmarks, 'Mortal Prey' proves that John Sandford just keeps getting better.
language: English
title: Mortal Prey
titlecomplete: Mortal Prey (Lucas Davenport, #13)
characters: Nina Bennett, Louis Mallard, Rose Marie Roux, Jimmy Cricket, Gianfranco Ferre (Mortal Prey), Hitler (Mortal Prey), Striker, Allenby, Lane and Jones, The Singing Nun (Mortal Prey), Andy Levy, Paulo Mejia, Raul Mejia, Wayne McCallum, Barbara Allen, The get-away driver, The Godfather (Mortal Prey), Clara Rinker, The ERU Officer, Marcy Sherrill, Del Capslock, Johnny Cash (Bye Bye Baby), Sandy White, Nancy Leighton, Weather Karkinnen, John Ross (Mortal Prey), T.J. Baker, Giancati and Ferignetti, Tom Black (Chosen Prey), Sloan (Eyes of Prey), Rayla and Geoffrey, Ann Diaz, Errol Lamp and Tony McCoy, Sally Bryce, Frank Lloyd Wright (Mortal Prey), Dick Bender and Micky Andreno, Officer Swanson, Tom and Michelle Lawton, Octavio Diaz, Dorothy Pollock, Frankenstein (Mortal Prey), Jaime (Mortal Prey), The red-haired agent, Elmer Henderson, Mark Twain (Blood Test), Agent Malone, Jackie Burke (Mortal Prey), Nanny Dichter, Gene Rinker, Paul Dallaglio, Dan Loftus, Moby Dick (Mortal Prey), John Sellos, Lucas Davenport, Israel Coen, Charles Addams, James Qatar, Honus Johnson, Manuel Martin, Ralph Lauren (Mortal Prey)
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Detective, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Police, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 20276
places: Cancun, Mexico, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, St. Louis, Missouri
series: Lucas Davenport
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Minnesota Book Award
category: Genre
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons