Broken Prey

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

The "Big Three" are a trio of inmates locked up in the Minnesota Security Hospital over the years, each a particularly vicious serial killer, each with his own distinct style and propensities. Everybody feels much safer knowing that they're behind bars. Except...there's a new killer on the loose. And his handiwork bears a disturbing resemblance to some of the finer points practiced by the Big Three, details that never even made the papers.

Lucas Davenport and his team quickly hone in on a possible suspect, a man named Charlie Pope, who was released from the same hospital prison a few weeks earlier, and who now seems to have cut himself free from his court-imposed ankle bracelet and disappeared. But is he really the one? And why do the Big Three look so agitated?

Brilliantly suspenseful, consistently surprising, once again, Sandford has outdone himself.

©2005 John Sandford (P)2005 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"John Sandford delivers yet another blistering tale from the life of Lucas Davenport, surely one of the most attractive cops on the crime-fiction beat today.... The plot is complex and full of red herrings." (The Associated Press)

"Sandford ratchets up the tension and suspense in tough, spare prose that shows us rather than tells us what is going on.... Broken Prey more than lives up to its predecessors in what has become a bestselling franchise in the mystery/thriller genre." (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

"Nonstop tension." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Great Twists

One of, if not the best, Davenport novels I've read to date. This story had me hooked as well as fooled on occasion, which is not easy to do.

Had be hooked from the first chapter

It had me guessing till almost the end. I would have liked to know more about the villain childhood back story.

Wonderful Thriller!

I love the Prey series and I've read or/and listened to most of them. This book is just as good as the previous ones. It can be a bit graphic in parts, but so can real police work (I would think). Anyway, there's plenty of action, mystery and suspense to keep you listening until the end. I love all of the characters, and the author does a wonderful job of making them seem so real. I thought that the reader was fantastic, too!

love this series

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

yes the plot did keep me on the edge of my seat

Have you listened to any of Richard Ferrone’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

i have listened to all of them so far and i just enjoy him

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Yes!

What can I say, I'm a sucker for every one of these. Love them all. Lucas and his band of merry men have broken up but it's still a great series.

Richard Ferrone does such an amazing job I'd feel cheated if I had to read one of these instead of listening to him narrate.

Another John Sandford home run !

Richard Ferrone, man you are great . John Sandford , you kept me guessing . A lot of twists and turns , the young woman and her boyfriend . I couldn't figure how they were going to , oh you know (fit in).
And Richard , the young man's accent was pretty good.

Could have been better

As a firm Sandford fan, this was not his best book, and I would have prefered to have had Eric Conger as reader. Richard Ferrone did not do a good job distinguishing characters and sometimes I was not sure which character was speaking.

John Sanford never lets me down!

Great story and Richard Ferrone knows how to tell it. the story moves at a great pace but takes the time to let you get to know the characters.

Superman song????

Superman song, really? There are other abominations on the list but this one really sucks.

Audio editing was out of character

Story is very strong, this book in the series is extra dark, raw, even a bit morbid. Loved it.

Performance
Normally, I REALLY like Ferrone's use of silence and pauses between sequences and even within suspenseful sequences in the Davenport series. But I think the audio editing in this one is a bit off. I think it's an audible problem, not Ferrone or Sanford. There is no or little pause between chapters and Ferrone seems to be speaking at a faster rate. I didn't like it. Hopefully it's an editing problem that can be fixed.