John Sandford: Secret Prey (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
Five men go hunting. Only four come back alive. It's up to Lucas Davenport to untangle the secrets that bind these men together and uncover his prey...

The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death. If he read it in a book, Lucas Davenport thought, it would seem like one of those classic murder mysteries, the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case with a little speech.

But it wasn't going to be that easy, he knew. There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murder of a single man. He had felt this way not long before, sensed the curling of an indefinable evil, and not only had it nearly gotten him killed, it had lost him the woman he loves. Sometime soon, unless he could stop it, there would be another death, and then still another, and Davenport couldn't help but wonder if maybe this time, the final death might not be his own...

John Sandford has written extraordinary thrillers before, but nothing to top the startling twists and unrelenting suspense of Secret Prey.

John Sandford: Secret Prey. The classic Lucas Davenport thriller. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781471179051 (November, 2018), 464 p., £8.99, eBook £0.99.

John Sandford: Secret Prey (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this routine murder investigation is about to turn into something different. A cat-and-mouse game with a killer who does not hesitate to take the fight to Lucas himself. And those he loves...

John Sandford: Secret Prey. A Lucas Davenport Novel. With a new introduction by John Sandford. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780425268506 (November, 2013), 495 p., $9.99.

John Sandford: Secret Prey (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet fired at close range. Near him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death. There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murder of a single man. Davenport had felt this way not long before, sensed the curling of an indefinable evil, and not only had it almost gotten him killed, it had lost him his fiancee, who'd never been able to recover from the violence of the encounter. Sometime soon, unless he could stop it, there would be another death, and then another, and Davenport couldn't help wondering if maybe this time, the final death might not be his own...

John Sandford: Secret Prey. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425168298 (June, 1999), 384 p., $7.99.

John Sandford: Secret Prey (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
Lucas Davenport of the Minneapolis PD knows all about killers. In fact he thinks he's seen it all - until now. Now Davenport is matched against an opponent of a kind he's never faced before, with a subtle knot of motives that will require all his skills to unravel. This time the killer is a woman.

John Sandford: Secret Prey. Headline, ISBN: 074725625X (December, 1998), 408 p., £5.99.