Certain Prey

John Sandford

Mar 2000 · A Prey Novel Book 10 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

“One of [the] best” (Orlando Sentinel) Lucas Davenport Novels—now with a New Introduction by the Author.

Clara Rinker is twenty-eight, beautiful, charmingly southern—and the best hit woman in the business. She just goes about her business, collects her money, and goes home. Her latest hit sounds simple: a defense attorney wants a rival eliminated. No problem—until a witness survives. Clara usually knows how to deal with loose ends: cut them off, one by one, until they're all gone. This time, there’s one loose end that’s hard to shake.

Lucas Davenport has no idea of the toll this case is about to take on him. Clara knows his weak spots. She knows how to penetrate them, and how to use them. And when a woman like Clara has the advantage, no one is safe.

Ratings and reviews

Clara Rinker is an interesting character, but nonsensical decision making by Clara and Carmel ruined the book for me. I did not believe the characters motivations would lead to those foolish decisions.

Great read! Loved Clara Rinker. Finishing this book kinda worries me though, it's getting hard to find a John Sandford novel that I haven't read!

I am a Mark Harmon fan because of "NCIS" so I was intrigued when he appeared in the television version of "Certain Prey." I was impressed with the performance but also was happy that it was based on a novel. John Sandford wrote a masterpiece that I can't put down! I'm looking forward to reading more stories about Lucas Davenport.

About the author

John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of thirty-one Prey novels, most recently Ocean Prey; four Kidd novels; twelve Virgil Flowers novels; three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook; and three stand-alones.