Spel op leven en dood
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Een Amerikaanse politieman opent de jacht op een maniakale vrouwenmoordenaar, die zich superieur waant aan de politie.
Lucas Davenport Reeks
Deze serie volgt een briljante maar vaak onorthodoxe detective die zich verdiept in de duisterste krochten van de menselijke psyche om complexe misdaden te ontrafelen. Elke zaak stort hem dieper in ingewikkelde netwerken van intriges en gevaar, waar zijn unieke aanpak van onderzoek zijn grootste wapen wordt. Wees getuige van spannende achtervolgingen van daders en ontdek verborgen motieven die schuilgaan onder de oppervlakte van ogenschijnlijk gewone zaken.
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Shadow Prey
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Detective Lucas Davenport joins forces with NYPD detective Lucy Rothenburg to solve a series of grisly killings that have terrorized the country, from Minneapolis, to Oklahoma City, to New York
Eyes of Prey
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Lieutenant Davenport's sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse . . . Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark mirror of Davenport's soul . . . This is the case that will bring Davenport back to life. Or push him over the edge.
Silent Prey
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His guards slain, the brilliant yet insane pathologist of 'Eyes of Prey" flees to New York, there to continue his research into aspects of death. Carefully, Michael Bekker conducts his experiments, searching the eyes of his dying victims for what they can reveal. But the mounting body count is causing an uproar in the city.In desperation, the police reach out for the man who knew Bekker best, but when Lucas Davenport arrives, he finds unexpected danger as well. For Lily Rothenburg, the policewoman whose intense affair with Lucas has never completely faded, is there too. Now, consumed with her own investigation of a group of rogue killers who could be inside the police department, she draws Lucas into her orbit again, until their hunts merge, their twin obsessions driving them ever closer to the edge . . . and then over.Librarian's note: the first five books in the Lucas Davenport series are #1, Rules of Prey, 1989; #2, Shadow Prey, 1990; #3, Eyes of Prey, 1991; #4, Silent Prey, 1992; and #5, Winter Prey, 1993.
Detektiv Lucas Davenport tráví zimu v odlehlém lesním srubu ve Wisconsinu, když je místní policií přivolán, aby pomohl vypátrat brutálního vraha, jehož čin rozvířil hladinu poklidného maloměsta – vyvražděná rodina, nalezená v ohořelých troskách svého domu, do daleka rozfoukaný popel, který na bělostném sněhu a ledu zanechal děsivé svědectví. Vraždění ovšem pokračuje dál a Davenport se ocitá uprostřed nelítostného souboje – proti jednomu zlému, krutému a zoufalému muži a proti nepředvídatelné síle mrazivého zimního počasí, které nenechá nikoho na pochybách, kdo těmto končinám vládne.
De insluiper
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Minneapolis wordt belaagd door een meedogenloze lustmoordenaar die in korte tijd meerdere jonge, weerloze vrouwen op gruwelijke wijze om het leven brengt. Lucas Davenport wordt ingeschakeld om samen met Meagan Connell, die aan een ongeneeslijke ziekte lijdt, de psychopaat te grijpen. Terwijl hun onderzoek slechts moeizaam vordert, wordt de politie keer op keer geconfronteerd met nieuwe slachtoffers. De moordenaar raakt geobsedeerd door Sara Jensen, een van zijn inbraakslachtoffers. Zonder dat zij er erg in heeft, houdt hij haar voortdurend in de gaten. Koste wat het kost wil hij Sara voor zich winnen. Maar dan, in een aanval van razernij, verliest hij even zijn gebruikelijke voorzichtigheid uit het oog. En dat was nu precies waar Lucas Davenport op zat te wachten. Samen met Meagan, die haar eigen strijd tegen de dood voortijdig dreigt te verliezen, zet hij de definitieve jacht in op deze gewetenloze, geraffineerde sadist.
Mind Prey
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Detective Lucas Davenport knows he has met his match. For his newest nemesis is more intelligent--and more deadly--than any he has tracked before. A kidnapper. A violator. A pure, wanton killer who knows more about mind games than Lucas himself.
Sudden Prey
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Lucas Davenport knows why people kill. Some do it for thrills. Some do it for profit. Some do it because they must. But when his team guns down two bank robbers in the middle of a heist, Davenport falls prey to the purest, simplest criminal motivation: revenge.
Dood Spoor
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ls Daniel S. Kreshe, president-directeur van de prestigieuze Polaris-bank, tijdens een jachtpartijtje vermoord wordt, ziet het er aanvankelijk naar uit dat de dader snel gevonden zal worden. Hij bevond zich op het tragische moment van zijn dood in het gezelschap van vier van zijn ondergeschikten, die stuk voor stuk munt uit zijn dood kunnen slaan. En die er stuk voor stuk blijk van geven dat ze niet aarzelen voor hun carrière over lijken te gaan... Al snel vallen er nog meer doden te betreuren in de top van de Polaris-bank en wordt duidelijk dat er een niets- en niemand ontziende moordenaar aan het werk is. Maar pas als het dodelijke geweld op onverwachte plaatsen zijn slachtoffers gaat maken, beseft Lucas Davenport dat hij hier met een ziekelijk brein te maken heeft. Maar veel tijd om de onafgebroken stroom gruwelijkheden te stoppen heeft hij niet...
Certain Prey
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In the 10th installment of the Prey series, Lucas Davenport faces a pair of cunning killers. Attorney Carmel Loan is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, and her infatuation with fellow barrister Hale Allen leads her to orchestrate a hit on his wife, Barbara. The assassin, Clara Rinker, is a top Mafia hit person, smart and unassuming, who believes the job will be easy money. However, complications arise when Loan's ex-client, who recorded their meeting, begins to extort her for money. The situation escalates further when a witness, a police officer, is shot, bringing deputy inspector Davenport into the investigation. He quickly connects Loan to the murder and seems to be closing in on Rinker as well. In a desperate bid to eliminate any loose ends, Loan and Rinker team up to deal with Davenport by any means necessary. As with Sandford's previous works, this installment offers a fast-paced, thrilling ride. While some plot elements may stretch credibility and the dialogue can falter, the narrative remains engaging. Fans will find Davenport a bit older and warier, yet still sharp-witted and determined. This installment solidifies Sandford's reputation among the genre's best.
A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. Especially as one of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone has imagined - one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared...
Chosen Prey
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He desired women. All kinds, all shapes, all sizes. He would fix on a woman and build imaginary stories around her. Some of the women he knew well, others not at all. Most of them faded quickly. Only a few became objects of desire
Mortal Prey
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A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford
Naked prey
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His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special trouble-shooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. Of course, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him: he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. If there's one thing Lucas Davenport knows, it's that for every bit of peace you get, you have to pay - and he's waiting for the bill. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree, in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes it particularly sensitive is that the bodies are those of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. 'Lynching' is the word that everybody's trying not to say - but, as Lucas begins to discover, the murders are not, in fact, what they appear to be. Neither are they the end of it. There is worse to come - much, much worse… Filled with rich characterization and exceptional drama that are his hallmarks, this is Sandford's most suspenseful novel yet.
Hidden Prey
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Old crimes cause new murder in this novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Sandford. Before Lucas Davenport can find the answers, he will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there - shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.
Broken Prey
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Lucas Davenport faces a living nightmare, in one of the scariest Prey novels yet from the number-one bestselling author. Abridged CD - 5 CDs, 6 hours
Invisible Prey
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In the richest neighbourhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, beaten to death with a metal pipe; the rooms ransacked, only small items stolen. It's clearly a random break-in by someone looking for money to buy drugs.
Phantom Prey
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A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood on the walls, no body — and her college-age daughter missing. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them — Goths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup and black clothing, listening to that awful music, so attracted to death. And now this. But the police can't find the girl, alive or dead, and the widow truly panics. There's someone she knows, a surgeon named Weather Davenport, whose husband is a big deal with the police, and she implores Weather to get her husband directly involved. Lucas gets in only reluctantly — but then when a second Goth is slashed to death in Minneapolis, he starts working it hard. The clues don't seem to add up, though. And then there's the young Goth who keeps appearing and disappearing: Who is she? Where does she come from and, more important, where does she vanish to? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here... something very, very bad indeed?
Republikáni přijíždějí do St. Paulu na předvolební sjezd strany. Konference má být velkolepá, ale naruší ji několik případů, z nichž policie nemá vůbec radost. Nejnebezpečnější je skupina profesionálních lupičů, kteří vycítili několik lukrativních příležitostí k obohacení se. Chystají se na politické představitele s kufříky plnými peněz a zajímá je i hotel, v němž se sjezd koná a jehož bezpečnostní systém má slabiny. To vše působí starosti Lucasi Davenportovi, ale to, co ho postihne vzápětí, je mnohem horší. Při jednom zásahu způsobila Lucasova zbloudilá kulka pasáku a zloději Randymu Whitcombovi těžké zranění, po němž skončil na invalidním vozíku. Mladý muž viní ze svého postižení Lucase, ale nemá v plánu ho zastřelit. To by nebylo to pravé řešení. Lucas má hezkou čtrnáctiletou adoptivní dceru, na niž se Whitcomb zaměří a se sniperkou ráže 50 chystá krutou pomstu…
Vuile handen
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- 10 uur lezen
Op een bitterkoude ochtend in Minnesota stormen drie gemaskerde mannen een ziekenhuisapotheek binnen. Ze binden de aanwezigen vast en halen alles overhoop. Maar er gaat iets mis en een van de personeelsleden sterft. Er is één getuige: Weather Karkinnen, chirurg en echtgenote van rechercheur Lucas Davenport. De overvallers realiseren zich dat de politie alles op alles zal zetten om hen te pakken te krijgen, en daarom gaan ze op zoek naar de vrouw die hen kan identificeren. Zij was de enige getuige. Nu moet ze dood… Lucas Davenport, die zich natuurlijk zelf op de zaak stort, komt daarmee onder toenemende druk te staan om het brein achter de overval te ontdekken. Dan worden de dode lichamen van twee leden van een criminele motorbende gevonden. Davenport vermoedt dat hun dood te maken heeft met de overval en dat zij door hun medebendeleden zijn omgebracht. Maar waarom?
Buried Prey
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Haunted by the unsolved kidnapping of two girls for twenty-five years, Minneapolis homicide detective Lucas Davenport faces a chilling return to the case when their bodies are discovered. This revelation plunges him into a dark and complex investigation that forces him to confront his deepest fears and the shadows of the past, revealing a nightmare that challenges his skills and resilience like never before.
Stolen Prey
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A senseless slaughter leads Lucas Davenport down a twisted path in this thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed—husband, wife, two kids, dogs. On the wall, in blood: “Were coming.” No apostrophe. There’s something about the scene that tugs at Lucas’s cop instincts—it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he’s seen from Mexican drug gangs. But this is a seriously upscale town, the husband ran a modest software company, the wife dabbled in local politics. None of it seems to fit. Until it does...
Silken Prey
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- 16 uur lezen
Murder. Scandal. Politics. And one billionaire heiress so dangerous in so many ways. An explosive Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. All hell has broken loose in the capital. An influential state senator has been caught with something very, very nasty on his office computer. The governor can’t believe it—the senator’s way too smart for that, even if he is from the other party. Something’s not right. As Davenport investigates, the trail leads to a political fixer who has disappeared, then—troublingly—to the Minneapolis police department itself, and most unsettling of all, to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons in manipulation. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work—along with the money, ruthlessness, and cold-blooded will to make it happen.
Field of Prey
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The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He'd picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was…something smelled bad - like, really bad. He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew, and when the cop took a look, he found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another, and another. By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, the police were up to fifteen bodies and counting. And as if that wasn't bad enough, when Lucas began to investigate, he made some disturbing discoveries of his own. The victims had been killed over a great many years, one every summer, regular as clockwork. How could this have happened without anybody noticing? Because one thing was for sure: the killer had to live close by. He was probably even someone they saw every day…
Gathering Prey
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When his adopted daughter's friend reports that someone has been killing off a circle of nomadic panhandlers, Lucas travels to North Dakota, where he encounters a dangerously violent subculture.
Extreme Prey
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- 15 uur lezen
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times- bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.
Golden Prey
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- 14 uur lezen
Praise for Golden Prey The best Lucas Davenport story so far. The man has a fine touch for outlaws.-Stephen King Sandford's trademark blend of rough humor and deadly action keeps the pages turning until the smile-inducing wrap-up, which reveals the fates of a number of his quirky, memorable characters.- Publishers Weekly The twenty-ninth Prey novel is a very good, straightforward chase thriller, laced with gallows humor throughout.- Booklist Buckle up, grab a cold drink & settle in for another splendid entry in a stellar series. -Richmond Times-Dispatch Praise for the Prey novels of John Sandford It appears there is no limit to John Sandford's ability to keep new breath and blood flowing into his Lucas Davenport series. This is a series you must be reading if you are not already.-Bookreporter.com If you haven't read Sandford yet, you have been missing one of the great summer-read novelists of all time.-Stephen King Sandford has always been at the top of any list of great mystery writers. His writing and the appeal of his lead character are as fresh as ever.-The Huffington Post Sandford is consistently brilliant.-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Twisted Prey
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Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now more powerful than ever as a U.S. senator, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey series Lucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before. A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U.S. Senate, where Lucas had predicted she’d fit right in. He was also convinced that she’d been responsible for three murders, though he’d never been able to prove it. Once a psychopath had gotten that kind of rush, though, he or she often needed another fix, so he figured he might be seeing her again. He was right. A federal marshal now, with a very wide scope of investigation, he’s heard rumors that Grant has found her seat on the Senate intelligence committee, and the contacts she’s made from it, to be very…useful. Pinning those rumors down was likely to be just as difficult as before, and considerably more dangerous. But they had unfinished business, he and Grant. One way or the other, he was going to see it through to the end.
Neon Prey
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Lucas Davenport pursues a prolific serial killer who has gone undetected for years in the newest nail-biter by internationally bestselling author John Sandford
Masked Prey
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Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer in this nail-biting #1 New York Times-bestseller from John Sandford. Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy--it's his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation. Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese's rural Louisiana cabin and find a jungle full of graves. Now Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a serial killer who has been operating for years without notice. His quarry is ruthless, and--as Davenport will come to find--full of surprises . . .
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Lucas Davenport, člen oddělení vražd minneapoliského policejního sboru, se ocitá v situaci, kdy se zvyšuje počet vražd bez motivu a bez stop. Je přesvědčen, že jediným způsobem, jak chytit nepřítele, který nedodržuje pravidla, je začít porušovat svá vlastní. V Minneapolis řádí mnohonásobný vrah žen, který zanechává lístečky s pravidly, jež dodržuje, aby unikl spravedlnosti. Davenport se rozhodne, že musí změnit přístup, aby vraha dostal, ale obává se, že obětí bude ještě více. Série brutálních vražd v jeho rajonu vyvolává obavy po celé zemi. Davenport spolupracuje s mladou newyorskou policistkou Lily Rothenburgovou, aby odhalili temné tajemství americké indiánské komunity. Počet obětí roste a policie nemá téměř žádné stopy, což ztěžuje odhalení motivu těchto krvavých činů. Davenport se také musí vyrovnat s sadistickou vraždou lékařky, která otřásla městem. Po traumatizujících případech se obává, zda zvládne vyšetřování, zvlášť když zjistí, co vrah udělal oběti s očima. Následuje další vražda se stejným děsivým zohavením, a Davenport se dostává do sítě inteligentního a prohnaného manipulátora fascinovaného smrtí.
