Gathering Prey Pdf Summary
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winner John Sandford.
They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes—they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them.
Lucas Davenport’s adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she’d befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody’s killing her friends, she’s afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She’s hiding out in North Dakota, and she doesn’t know what to do.
Letty tells Lucas she’s going to get her, and, though he suspects Letty’s getting played, he volunteers to go with her. When he hears the woman’s story, though, he begins to think there’s something in it. Little does he know. In the days to come, he will embark upon an odyssey through a subculture unlike any he has ever seen, a trip that will not only put the two of them in danger—but just may change the course of his life.
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Gathering Prey Review
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4.0 out of 5 stars Moving Time?
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2015
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John Camp recently moved to New Mexico. As a result we can expect to see some drastic changes regarding Lucas Davenport and THE PREY series, but not quite yet.
One of the original complaints about the series was the high body count involved. Would a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent with that much blood on his hands be tolerated? Lately Lucas has been standing on his head, trying to avoid killing too many of the miscreants he deals with. Not in this one, and there’s a reason for that which I’ll get to later.
One of the recent developments in the series has been the addition of Letty, Lucas’s adopted daughter, as a major character. She’s a lot like Lucas and would like to be involved in law enforcement in some capacity. In this case, she meets a young girl, named Skye who is a Traveler. An old time word for her might be drifter. She and her friend Henry move from place to place doing odd jobs, singing on the streets and begging, then moving on to the next place. Originally I thought the synopsis meant Lucas was involved with the Irish Travellers, a group of Irish conmen and women, who ascend on unsuspecting homeowners in the North during the spring, offering to do roofing jobs and other home improvement jobs, such as sealing the driveway. But if you pay them, beforehand, they disappear. Skye and Henry would be more the drifter type.
The villain of this episode is a Charles Manson type named Pilate, who likes to hurt people. Pilate lures Henry into the group by promising him an acting job. Skye warns him that Pilate is evil, but he won’t listen. What happens to Henry and ultimately Skye, brings Lucas into the picture. Here’s another unfamiliar group for you, the Juggalos. Think the Grateful Dead. The Juggalos dress up in clown make-up and costumes, listen to music, take drugs, and bascially party. Lucas and Letty follow Skye to Wisconsin and ultimatley to the Upper Penisula in Michigan, first to save Skye (and Lettie), then (for Lucas) to deal with Pilate’s violent cult.
Now for the ending. The new director of the BCA is a weasel named Henry Sands. He’s upset about the body count and he wants Lucas gone. He’s called a meeting to discuss this, but Lucas has already told him to stick it where the sun don’t shine. As a result, I would expect the next Prey novel may be set in someplace like New Mexcio. I realize Tony Hillerman has already done that, but there’s nothing that says Lucas (and Letty?) have to work for the state cops.
5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent installment into the Prey series!!!!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2016
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I have been reading the Prey series for many years now having been hooked after Rules of Prey. I’ve followed other series books and eventually they become less appealing with each new book, However, this has not happened with John Sandford and book 25 still has be interested and reading very quickly to the end! I look forward to his new releases in this series so much that it seems an eternity till I can purchase the next one!!
If you’ve never read any of the Lucas Davenport (main character in the Prey series), I highly encourage you to read the first in the series (Rules of Prey) and you will know from that one book if you’re a fan or not. When I read the first few books of the series the one thing that struck me most was that it’s written from the male perspective which was new to me at the time. Mr. Sandford does such a great job in making the characters so realistic, I found myself getting mad at Lucas Davenport for his womanizing ways and attitude about them. But, the storyline is excellent, and over time, the characters have stayed true to life in that they grow, mature, learn lessons, and age through the years. That is a very difficult thing for an author to do and not only do the characters grow, the storylines are just as interesting and new with each book he writes. I am never bored or disappointed and the writing style has stayed consistent leading me to believe that John Sandford is still actually writing the material versus ‘ghost writers’. I love his books so much that I’m now just as hooked on the other series that have evolved from characters in the Prey series. This helps me get through the wait for the next Prey because these are released at different times of the year. It’s also nice that the characters make their appearances in all of the books keeping in line with their relationships to make it believable to the reader.
I recommend these books and cannot express enough how excellent and entertaining the writing is as well as the storylines. If you are a fan of crime novels, then you will love them. I don’t really consider them a mystery per say because usually the bad guy/gal is known to the reader as you follow an investigation from the detective point of view, but, you feel like you are part of the investigation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Davenport + Letty crime caperReviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 9, 2015
This may be the last of the Lucas Davenport series. Hi adopted daughter Lefty has the main role after helping a young woman traveller. The girl gets kidnapped but is able to contact Letty who has to call in her father for help. Many characters from the series appear in the course of this interested tale which as usual includes a sub plot about a stolen safe with important political connections and Davenport solves it all in the at the cost of professional ennui.
I recommend this to buy and keep to read again..
About John Sandford Author Of Gathering Prey pdf Book
John Sandford Author Of Gathering Prey pdf he was born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies in 1966. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. He was in the U.S. Army from 1966-68, worked as a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian from 1968-1970, and went back to the University of Iowa from 1970-1971, where he received a master’s degree in journalism. He was a reporter for The Miami Herald from 1971-78, and then a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer-Press from 1978-1990; in 1980, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he won the Pulitzer in 1986 for a series of stories about a midwestern farm crisis. From 1990 to the present he has written thriller novels. He’s also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. He is the principal financial backer of a major archeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel, with a website at www.rehov.org In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography. He both hunts and fishes. He has two children, Roswell and Emily, and one grandson, Benjamin. His wife, Susan, died of metastasized breast cancer in May, 2007, and is greatly missed.
Gathering Prey pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : G.P. Putnam’s Sons; 1st Edition, 1st Printing (April 28, 2015)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0399168796
- ISBN-13 : 978-0399168796
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.48 x 9.31 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #452,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,468 in Serial Killer Thrillers
- #11,016 in Murder Thrillers
- #26,775 in Suspense Thrillers
- Customer Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars 7,028 ratings
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