Storm Prey

A Lucas Davenport Novel

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

The brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number-one New York Times best-selling author.

"Sandford's track record as a best-selling author is amazing, but it's not an accident," wrote Booklist of Wicked Prey. "His plotting is sharp, his villains are extraordinarily layered, and his good guys are always evolving.

And this time, there's a storm brewing...Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But then things swiftly go bad, one of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck-and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport.

Did she see enough? Can she identify them? Gnawing it over later, it seems to them there is only one thing they can do: Find out who she is, and eliminate the only possible witness.

©2010 John Sandford (P)2010 Penguin

Critic reviews

"Sharply drawn characters, intricate plotting, and smooth dialogue make this a sure-fire winner." (Publishers Weekly)

The story rocks, but...

the random musical interludes SUCK and totally disrupt the flow of the story. Please fire the person responsible.

Get rid of the music

The music is annoying and does not work. Get rid of it. It is unnecessary

Overall Great Performance but

The only thing I didn’t like was the music inserted in there at random. Otherwise it was awesome!

Entertaining & Edgy

I was not impressed with John Sandfords last prey novel, but I was super impressed and ENTERTAINED with Storm Prey! In this book, Sandford brings in all my favorite characters such as: Weather, Letty, Dell and Virgil Flowers who works with Davenport throughout this case. The plot starts off light then it swirls into many ripples. The most important ingredient was that Sandford brought situations causing some gerneral fear and alarm in many parts of the book for some of the characters. He also brought in the shock value. I liked Richard Ferrone as Narrator he grew on me a few audiobooks back. I'm looking forward to the next 'Prey' novel because Weather and Lucas make an important decision at the end of the book and I can't wait to see if they follow through with it!!

Hooked -- twice.

So many of these "Prey" books -- I was scrolling through my iPod, looking for the newest John Sandford book I'd just downloaded. But I got confused, selected the first 'prey' book starting with "S" I came across, and started listening. It took only a few minutes for me to realize I'd listened to this one already -- and not that long ago, either. But? I couldn't seem to turn it off. Finally I decided I might just as well listen to the whole book again.

This is just a very good book -- lots of tension, twists and turns all over the place, odd-lot characters who seem like real people, lots of laugh out loud one-liners, and all your favorite players, Virgil Flowers included, a side-kick who now stars in some of his own books, and whose droll commentary I've come to appreciate. The Minneapolis setting -- cold, stormy, ice everywhere you look -- is another asset. It's always good to listen to these books in the summer -- they cool you off.

In 'Storm Prey', the tension of Weather's surgery -- to separate conjoined twins -- set against the background of really brutal, nasty criminals is a winner. This time, I already knew who the bad guy was -- you will too, not very far in -- but that didn't detract from my thoroughly enjoying this book again.

Sandford is one of the very few contemporary prolific detective fiction authors whose last books are just as good as the first ones -- the only others I can think of are Sue Grafton and Jonathan Kellerman. All the others seem to run out of steam about ten books in, but not these three. So not only are these books classics, designed to be enjoyed again and again, but you know that no matter which one you decide to listen to, it's going to be a pleasure.

And now, the good news is, I still have the newer one I just bought left to listen to -- good deal!

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Storm Prey

I eagerly await each new Sandford novel because I love his characters and his ability to unravel a serious crime mystery and make you laugh while he's unraveling. I'm totally in love with the Lucas Davenport family although I'd love to read more about the baby boy. Any story that has Lucas Davenport and crew then throws in his young side-kick Virgil Flowers has to be a winner. I highly recommend this book. I can't wait for the next John Sandford "Prey" Novel. I give this one a Ten...wait, I forgot Five is the highest score. Five Stars for John Sandford's Storm Prey.

One of the best of the Prey series

I really enjoyed this one. It didn't turn into a page turner until over half way through but then I couldn't put it down. Having Lucas, Weather, and Virgil all together again as the main characters made it even more interesting. The story was predictable but it didn't make it any less interesting. In some cases, it even enhanced it. It's definitely a great read. I highly recommend it.

WTF IS WITH THE RANDOM MUSIC?

None of the other Prey books have random music in then . I found it extremely distracting. otherwise it was awesome.

replace ferrone

The publisher should seriously consider replacing Richard Ferrone. His voices are indistinguishable from one another. Dick Hill who narrates the Harry Bosch novels is much better.

My first Davenport Novel..

I liked it! I got caught up reading John Sandford thru his Virgil Flowers character, so I guess I'm backwards. I KNOW how many books there are in the "Prey" series, but I had never read any until now. I did enjoy this as I felt it was definitely a good crime/suspense story. The story begins simply enough, and I'm thinking - how much can there really be to this? Then the series of bad choices and unfortunate mistakes begin and everyone gets in deeper until the whole thing is a mess. There were some parts to this that I felt went a little too far to be believable, but it wasn't distracting from the overall story. I intend to read more of the books in this series, so I can safely recommend this to anyone who is a fan of the crime novel.