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Lucas DavenportSéries

Cette série suit un détective brillant mais souvent peu orthodoxe, qui plonge dans les recoins les plus sombres de la psyché humaine pour démêler des crimes complexes. Chaque affaire le plonge plus profondément dans des réseaux complexes d'intrigues et de dangers, où son approche unique de l'enquête devient sa plus grande arme. Soyez témoin de poursuites palpitantes de criminels et découvrez des motivations cachées qui se cachent sous la surface d'affaires apparemment ordinaires.

Neon Prey
Rules of Prey
Buried Prey
Phantom Prey
Silken Prey
Eyes of Prey

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    Rules of Prey

    • 368pages
    • 13 heures de lecture
    4,1(77038)Évaluer

    Welcome. You are about to meet Lucas Davenport, a police detective in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who does it his way. The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep the police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Davenport--a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare--is brought in to take up the investigation, maddog suddenly has an adversary worthy of his genius.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.

    Rules of Prey
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    Shadow Prey

    • 358pages
    • 13 heures de lecture
    3,9(22492)Évaluer

    A series of ritualistic murders committed across the United States draws Lucas Davenport into an unimaginable conspiracy of revenge in this “classic”(Boston Globe) thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A slumlord butchered in Minneapolis...A rising political star executed in Manhattan...A judge slashed to death in Oklahoma City... Each victim has a history of bad behavior, but the only thing the killings have in common is the murder weapon—a Native American ceremonial knife—and a trail of blood that leads to an embodiment of evil known only as Shadow Love. Recruited to be the lethal hand of a terrorist campaign, Shadow Love has his own bloody agenda, one he will do anything to achieve. Enlisted to find him are Minneapolis police lieutenant Lucas Davenport and New York City police officer Lily Rothenburg. But despite the countrywide carnage they needn’t look far. Because Shadow Love is right behind them.

    Shadow Prey
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    Eyes of Prey

    • 358pages
    • 13 heures de lecture
    4,2(23770)Évaluer

    Lucas Davenport is back with a strange one.The Lieutenant'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.In 'Eyes of Prey' we look into the dark mirror of Davenport's soul. This is the case that will bring him back to life. Or push him over the edge.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.

    Eyes of Prey
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    Silent Prey

    • 384pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    4,0(465)Évaluer

    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.

    Silent Prey
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    Ledová oběť

    4,6(64)Évaluer

    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.

    Ledová oběť
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    Night Prey

    • 416pages
    • 15 heures de lecture
    4,0(532)Évaluer

    Lucas Davenport confronts an elusive cat burglar obsessed with a woman whose initials are being carved into the bodies of a growing list of butchered women. Reprint.

    Night Prey
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    Mind Prey

    • 323pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    4,2(272)Évaluer

    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.

    Mind Prey
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    Sudden Prey

    4,2(167)Évaluer

    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.

    Sudden Prey
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    Secret Prey

    4,0(529)Évaluer

    Lucas Davenport plays a dangerous cat-and-mouse game to get to the bottom of the murder of a banker that many would have liked to see dead.

    Secret Prey
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    Certain Prey

    • 339pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    4,2(19063)Évaluer

    Lucas Davenport faces his most unusual and most implacable foe, in a harrowing new Prey novel

    Certain Prey
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    Easy prey

    3,9(1277)Évaluer

    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. 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 had imagined --- one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared ...

    Easy prey
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    Chosen Prey

    • 357pages
    • 13 heures de lecture
    4,2(26737)Évaluer

    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

    Chosen Prey
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    Naked prey

    • 256pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    4,2(15611)Évaluer

    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.

    Naked prey
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    Hidden Prey

    • 256pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    4,1(15242)Évaluer

    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.

    Hidden Prey
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    Broken prey

    • 496pages
    • 18 heures de lecture
    4,2(16029)Évaluer

    The first body, that of a young woman, is found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Lucas Davenport, with the Minneapolis Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, knows that whoever did this is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn’t a bad love affair.The second body is found three weeks later in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display—except this time it is a man. Nothing to link the two victims, nothing to indicate that the killings end here.“This guy…” Lucas says. He took a deep breath and let it out as a sigh. “This guy is going to bust our chops.” And soon he is going to do far, far worse than that…

    Broken prey
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    Invisible Prey

    4,1(459)Évaluer

    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.

    Invisible Prey
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    Phantom Prey

    3,8(472)Évaluer

    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?

    Phantom Prey
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    Hříšná oběť

    4,4(26)Évaluer

    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…

    Hříšná oběť
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    Buried Prey

    • 480pages
    • 17 heures de lecture
    4,2(420)Évaluer

    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.

    Buried Prey
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    Stolen Prey

    • 480pages
    • 17 heures de lecture
    4,0(332)Évaluer

    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...

    Stolen Prey
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    Silken Prey

    • 453pages
    • 16 heures de lecture
    4,1(331)Évaluer

    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.

    Silken Prey
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    Field of Prey

    • 392pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    4,2(16465)Évaluer

    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…

    Field of Prey
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    Gathering Prey

    4,2(257)Évaluer

    The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number one New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford.

    Gathering Prey
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    Extreme Prey

    • 416pages
    • 15 heures de lecture
    4,6(59)Évaluer

    The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times- bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.

    Extreme Prey
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    Golden Prey

    4,2(241)Évaluer

    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

    Golden Prey
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    Zlatá oběť

    4,2(28)Évaluer

    Díky několika velmi vlivným lidem, jimž zachránil život, už Lucas Davenport nepracuje pro minnesotský Státní kriminalistický úřad, ale nastoupil k federálním maršálům. Má neobyčejně široké pole působnosti, může si vybírat případy bez ohledu na jejich povahu i na to, kam ho vyšetřování zavede. A tentokrát ho přivádí do potíží, o něž není co stát. Ve městě Biloxi na jihu Mississippi kdosi vyloupí počítárnu peněz drogového kartelu. Zmizí kufry plné hotovosti a na místě zůstanou mrtvoly šesti lidí včetně šestileté dívky. Kartel si na pachatele najímá vrahy včetně „kutilské královny“, která mučí oběti nářadím. Ti pak s Davenportem soupeří o to, kdo dřív najde střelce, kteří počítárnu přepadli. Situace se rychle vyostří, až stojí navzájem všichni proti sobě: lupiči z Biloxi, nájemní vrazi i Lucas Davenport.

    Zlatá oběť
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    Twisted Prey

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    4,2(200)Évaluer

    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.

    Twisted Prey
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    Neon Prey

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    4,0(7436)Évaluer

    Lucas Davenport pursues a prolific serial killer who has gone undetected for years in the newest nail-biter by internationally bestselling author John Sandford

    Neon Prey
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    Masked Prey

    • 480pages
    • 17 heures de lecture
    4,3(251)Évaluer

    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 . . .

    Masked Prey

  • Pravidla oběti. Oběť ve stínu. Oči oběti (jeden svazek)

    • 784pages
    • 28 heures de lecture
    3,9(39)Évaluer

    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.

    Pravidla oběti. Oběť ve stínu. Oči oběti (jeden svazek)