
This reviewer listened to the superb audiobook version read by Richard Ferrone. “Extreme Prey” reaches a stunning flash point at the Iowa State Fair. It is up to Lucas Davenport to derail a truly diabolical plot. Secretary Bowden cannot accept that some people would want to do her harm. Sandford explains that “the Purdys weren’t rich, but they did all right, not counting the possibly inherited tendency to psychosis”.Ĭole, an expert marksman, will do whatever his mother wishes. The Purdys grow produce to sell at farm markets. Hadn’t been able to sleep since he got back, and that was nine years now and he’d had a bell-like ringing in his ears since the first explosion, sometimes so loud that he thought it would drive him crazy.” “Cole had been to Iraq twice with the National Guard.” He has been damaged by his experiences there: “he wasn’t entirely sure about how okay he really was. Something had to be done to save America.” Michaela Bowden was their instrument, mixed right in there with them. The Administration was rotten, the Congress was rotten, the banks were rotten, the oil companies were rotten, the media were liars and thieves. Marlys in a member of a shadowy group that doesn’t like the way things are going in America. During the 1980’s farm crisis the Purdys lost their farm. PD Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport, seen last in Night Prey, carries on as a smart, quirky hero in the seventh Prey book. Marlys Purdy and her son Cole live in a little house in rural Iowa. They are an unusual pair, a mother and one of her sons. Readers learn right away who is plotting a lethal attack on the leading Democratic candidate. Lucas must identify who these potential assassins are to try to stop them before they can execute their plans.
