PDF Neon Prey A Prey Novel John Sandford Books

Product details Series A Prey Novel (Book 29) Hardcover 400 pages Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons (April 23, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 0525536582

Neon Prey A Prey Novel John Sandford Books Reviews

• I am a big fan of the Prey novels and have read most of them, and will keep doing so, but I have noticed in the last few novels by John Sandford that his liberalism is showing more and more, come on Sanford do what you do best and write good books without all the liberal garbage in them.
• So very, very dissapointed by this sloppy mismash of violence and mayhem serving only one purpose... putting more money in Sanford's pocket. There really should be a return policy for rotten products such as this. The authorities (FBI Police Marshalls) at one turn are competent and then utter fools... depends on where Sanford needs the plot to advance... aggravating and stupid. Sanford has also resorted to Lee Childs (Reacher) tendency to pull "facts" out his arse so the story can progress. Doctor and hospital give a patient prescriptions when the patient refuses to give a name (so a prescription with no patient name???!!!) And then they track the prescription down to a pharmacy when they have no idea what the name is on the prescription. Judas Priest!!!! And with cannibalism, rape, killing on every level, brutality and a body count beyond comprehension, Sanford is showing he has lost the ability to write and should stop, but I would imagine the prospect of more and more money will override his judgement. Really sad to see a good writer go down this path. Stay with Michael Connelly and such who maintain a level of excellence that Sanford never reached and never will. By the way, I've given some of his previous books 4 stars or more, so it's not vitriol I'm writing.
• Neon Prey is in Sandford's great police procedural style complete with authentic cop banter. But it's missing any heart. It's just boring. At the climax when someone is yelling "what do we do?" my thought was I don't care and that sums it up. Maybe too realistic police procedural, a little Keystone Kops running around but with a cannibal and rape...so boring and horrible all at the same time. Just no heart to the story there's no one to care about.
• I want to believe all Detectives are like Lucas Davenport. He attracts other cops like bees to flowers, and their dialogue is clever and funny! The author, John Sanford raises the bar on Detective books with his great characterizations and his skillful plot construction. In “Neon Prey”, Davenport is asked to help 2 other Marshalls find an especially demented killer, Deese, in New Orleans. Rae and Bob are recurring cast. Even “that f****** Flowers shows up a couple of times. Something shocking happens to Lucas and the long hunt is going to take him to L.A. and Las Vegas and involve lots of twists and surprises. The psychology of the gang hanging out with Deese is very well-done and unexpected. A suspenseful and brutal storyline.
  
  Lucas Davenport is my favorite book character! He’s smart, rich, violent to defend the innocent, and loves his family. Weather is his wife, a surgeon. Letty is his daughter in college and a female Lucas. He has two other children, but they’re too young to get into much trouble. Lucas hunts horribly-evil killers with the U. S. Marshall’s Service. I love this series and read every new addition with great anticipation and enjoyment!
• I didn't finish it because frankly - I didn't care. It was so confusing and jumped around too much. There was not enough classic Davenport. Maybe if I would have read it until the end, it would have made more sense. But there are so many books to read and so little time - I just didn't care to stick with something that was so boring. When I find myself skimming and skipping pages, it is time to go on to something else. I'm not giving up on Davenport but hope for a better story next time.
• I'm sure that is a grand compliment coming from Stephen King, but John Sandford is much more than that. Mr. King writes his novels based on where his considerable imagination takes him but reading his work often requires "suspension of disbelief". Mr. Sandford uses his imagination to expound on 'real life' situations, topics and people he probably was exposed to through his many years as a reporter. And of course he won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1986 for his 'real life' examination of of an American family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression.
  
  Mr. Sandford remains one of my favorite authors because he is able to write engaging crime novels that are based in reality and never require "suspension of disbelief". His descriptive prose is vivid with detail and his narratives are simple and direct while still allowing his unique cast of characters to explain who they are and what they do best. But it is John Sandford's use of humor in unexpected situations, often "gallows" humor, that can catch you by surprise and make you laugh out loud.
  
  His main character in this novel, Lucas Davenport, is now a U.S. Marshall and was playing poker with a few of his LEO misfits when a call came in asking him to get his Marshalls back on a case with the FBI. The incentives offered included 5 disinterred bodies and a BBQ grill with some human flesh in it. Obviously the perpetrator ate parts of his victims before burying them. The important question immediately raised by one of the Marshalls was "Do they know what kind of rub he used?" Creative thinking and gallows humor at its finest!
  
  You can't do much better than John Sandford if you're looking for an exciting crime novel. They are almost always error free, move along quickly, have quirky characters easy to identify with, and involve old-fashioned detective skills along with newer forensic tools in order to track and apprehend the bad actors. Anything can happen to anyone at any time. He keeps you guessing while he teases you through his story. Good stuff!