About the Author

John Sandford is the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of the Prey novels, the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, The Night Crew, and Dead Watch. He lives in New Mexico

Reviews

Sandford ( Shadow Prey ) brings back Minneapolis police Lt. Lucas Davenport in this terrific, fast-moving psycho-thriller/procedural featuring one of the nastiest villains in recent fiction. Michael Bekker, a pathologist fixed on his own beauty, various high-powered drugs and hatred of his wife, also is obsessed with the eyes of the dead and dying. He joins forces with Carlo Druze, an actor with a face ruined by fire, to kill Bekker's wife and the theater manager who wants to cashier Druze. Druze kills and mutilates Mrs. Bekker when Bekker's out of town; Bekker returns the favor when Druze has a solid alibi, leading the Minneapolis police to suspect a serial killer. Fighting depression, estranged from his lover and their child, Davenport seeks a frightened mystery witness, Mrs. Bekker's lover, who tries to help while remaining hidden. To cover their tracks Bekker and Cruze go on a murderous, almost random rampage providing many gory scenes, but mercifully none too explicit. Nobody's safe from Bekker's drug-powered cunning, not sick children nor a helpless invalid. The final revelation of the unknown lover is wrenching. Pulitzer-winning journalist ``Sandford'' also writes as John Camp ( The Empress File ). BOMC and Mysterious Book Club alternates. (Apr.)

Praise for John Sandford's Prey Novels

"Relentlessly swift...genuinely suspenseful...excellent."-Los Angeles Times

"Sandford is a writer in control of his craft."-Chicago Sun-Times

"Excellent...compelling...everything works."-USA Today

"Grip-you-by-the-throat thrills...a hell of a ride."-Houston Chronicle

"Crackling, page-turning tension...great scary fun."-The New York Daily News

"Enough pulse-pounding, page-turning excitement to keep you up way past bedtime."-Minneapolis Star Tribune

"One of the most engaging characters in contemporary fiction."-Detroit News

"Positively chilling."-St. Petersburg Times

"Just right for fans of The Silence of the Lambs."-Booklist

"One of the most horrible villains this side of Hannibal."-Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Ice-pick chills...excruciatingly tense...a double-pumped roundhouse of a thriller."-Kirkus Reviews