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因为图书进出比较频繁，电脑库存和实际库存有一定差异，一般电脑库存显示5本以下的书有可能您拍了付款的书没有货（99%的情况下还是有的）。所以只有麻烦您申请退款，我店也将尽快予以退款，给您带来的不便请谅解，不要因此随意给中评或差评。一个能给爱书者提供好书的书店来之不易，大家能好好爱护它可以吗？：）付款后一般尽快在3天内发书（接单时间全天，但发书时间是在星期一至星期五，之后定单都在此时间内处理，双休日不发书，请谅解），平邮全国大部分地方是10到20天左右，其余地方也许更长，请购书的朋友不要急，耐心等待即可，我们平邮的书都加了挂号，包裹也包含了挂号，所以比较安全。

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Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries) (Hardcover)

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byJohn Sandford(Author)

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• Hardcover: 384 pages\
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons (6 May 2008)\
• Language English\
• ISBN-10: 0399155007\
• ISBN-13: 978-0399155000\
• Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm

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From Publishers Weekly
In bestseller Sandford's solid 18th Prey novel (afterInvisible Prey), Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Lucas Davenport, who's received numerous promotions in the course of the series, ought to be taking the desk aspects of his job more seriously. But the man remains more comfortable working a stakeout, interviewing suspects and taking down bad guys than he is filling out personnel evaluation forms on his staff—which explains why he's still getting shot at, peeping at a cocaine dealer's wife hoping for a glimpse of her husband and, at his wife's behest, looking into the unsolved kidnapping and presumed murder of a wealthy young woman into the goth scene. It becomes clear that a serial killer is targeting goths as well as anyone, including Lucas, who gets in the way. While some pretty murky psychology encumbers the plot, Sandford delivers the kind of riveting action that keeps thriller fans turning the pages.(May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review
“You know life is good when you have a new Lucas Davenport thriller to escape into.”
—Chicago Tribune

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Back for his eighteenth appearance, Lucas Davenport of the Minnesota State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is not only on the job, but in top form.

The main story concerns Alyssa Austin, recently widowed when the airplane carrying her millionaire pilot husband Hunter crashed in Canada, comes home to discover the alarm system of her tony suburban home turned off, but no one in the house. Knowing the housekeeper Helen is gone for the day, Alyssa calls out for her daughter Frances who might be visiting. Alyssa searches the house and finds what turns out to be a small blood stain on the wallpape. The blood belongs to Frances and the police find that more blood has been wiped from the floors.

But there is no corpse.

A sub-plot concerns Lucas Davenport and colleague Del staking out the apartment of the wife of dope dealer, who apparently is immodest of often peels off her top with the shades up. The cops are trying to nab her currently absent drug kingpin husband.

Lucas Davenport is independently wealthy because he developed and sold a software company. He doesn't have to work, but he likes being a cop and solving the really tough cases, which just happens to be what the BCA does. In earlier stories, Sandford spent a lot of time developing Lucas Davenport. This time around, Davenport, married to surgeon Weather, with a young son and adopted teenage daughter is less introspective and more action oriented.

And there is plenty of action. As it turns out, the distraught mother, Alyssa Austin, owns several exclusive fitness centers, knows Weather and asks her to get her husband involved in the case. Reluctantly, Lucas gets involved - just in time for a series of gruesome murders of young Twin Cities "Goths". Frances, the missing daughter, was into the Goth scene.

Sandford is one of the best police procedural writers around today. He doesn't miss a beat in this one. Davenport is a cerebral cop who is constantly dogging a case, wondering how the leads and clues fit together. Almost as an aside, he tracks a money trail through the Goth community as one after another is murdered. Davenport himself comes in for a close call.

It's a taut thriller, with Davenport displaying more than the occasional flash of brilliant inspiration that brings him one step closer to solving the crimes.

The only unfortunate part of the plot is that Davenport relies upon a device he used to great effect in an earlier "Prey" novel, but it doesn't work so well here. Nope, I'm not going to spoil it for you. You'll know when you see it, even if you haven't read the prior Davenport novels.

It's a small thing that doesn't take any pleasure from the reading because John Sanford is simply one of the finest authors of police procedurals in the business. The nice thing about the "Prey" series is that if you start with one, you might be drawn to reading the others. Start with the first and work your way through all of them. They really are excellent reading.

Jerry

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