Sudden Prey

Its place in Prey

Sudden Prey is book 8 in the Prey series. It follows Mind Prey. It is followed by Secret Prey. See the full Prey reading order.

The Prey novels follow Lucas Davenport, a wealthy, short-fused Minneapolis cop (later a Minnesota state investigator, then a U.S. Marshal) who hunts serial killers, political conspirators and organized predators using unconventional methods and a willingness to bend or break the rules when the law can't stop someone who deserves to be stopped. John Sandford (the pen name of journalist John Camp) alternates the story between Davenport's investigation and the killer's point of view, so most books are as much a…