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Eyes of Prey (Paperback, Reissue)
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Eyes of Prey (Paperback, Reissue)
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Why is Sandford's new Kidd-series novel, The Empress File (p. 120;
written under his real name of John Camp), so frazzled? Maybe
because this increasingly popular author is putting his finest
energies into his best-selling Lucas Davenport series (Rules of
Prey, 1989; Shadow Prey, 1990) - as evidenced by this strong and
satisfying entry, in which the Minneapolis homicide cop tangles
with two memorable psycho-killers. The killers are coldhearted
burn-deformed actor Carlo Druze and handsome pill-crazed
pathologist Michael Bekker, who lures Druze into a murder trade a
la Strangers on a Train: Bekker's wife for Druze's boss. The novel
opens with Druze sneaking into Bekker's house to slice Stephanie
Bekker and (at Bekker's insistence) to mutilate her eyes - but it
turns out that Stephanie has a lover, who sees Druze, then runs
away. Who is he? And why the eye mutilation? These questions plague
moody, perennially unhappy Davenport as he deals with the case, and
with his own demons of depression. Though from the start suspecting
Bekker (whose drug-soaked soliloquies, and hidden obsession with
observing dying patients' eyes at the moment of death, cast him as
an unusually fascinating villain), Davenport can't figure out the
mad M.D.'s connection to the second victim, Druze's boss, also
found with punched-out eyes. So when the mysterious eyewitness
begins feeding anonymous clues about a deformed killer, and then a
third victim - an innocent mistakenly identified by Druze as the
eyewitness - surfaces, Davenport looks elsewhere. His search brings
him to Druze's theater company and to sexy actress Cassie Lasch,
who becomes Davenport's lover and (inevitably in Sandford's dark
universe) Bekker's final victim - along with Druze, whom Bekker
double-crosses. In a brutal finale, a semi-deranged Davenport,
throwing his cop-career away, extracts a savage revenge upon Bekker
- a revenge that leads to a last-page revelation of the
eyewitness's surprising identity. Atmospheric, suspenseful, and
gripping from start to finish. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Imprint: |
HarperCollinsPublishers
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 1992 |
Authors: |
John Sandford
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Dimensions: |
178 x 111 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Mass Market
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Pages: |
368 |
Edition: |
Reissue |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-586-21131-1 |
Categories: |
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Fiction >
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General
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LSN: |
0-586-21131-4 |
Barcode: |
9780586211311 |
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