2007-12-25 Great Plot, Conflict, Great Characters, Typical Sandford!

Take a Ninety-Two-Year old hold out Russian Spy and his seventeen-year-old grandson and move them to Duluth. Now have them be violent as all get out, real killers. And you have the bad guys in John Sandford's "Hidden Prey" the latest in the "Prey" series.
Though Lucas Davenport is happily married and very well off, that doesn't stop him from dropping everything when he's called to solve a murder and now he works for the State of Minnesota as sort of a roving crime solving guy. So when a well to do Russian is murdered on the shores of Lake Superior, Lucas is called into action and this time he's partnered with female Russian Investigator, who has her own secrets.

It turns out that our aging spy is living in Duluth. He's a sleeper who has been long forgotten by both sides, until he feels he has to protect his secret by killing people who he thinks know too much. And then their is the grandson who is loyal to granddad, but even though he's been raised to be a killer, he's starting to get confused about the murders, and there plenty of them.

Once again John Sandford has written a thriller that is impossible to put down. Lots of conflict, a great plot, wonderful characters, typical Sandford. I loved "Hidden Prey" and I think you will too.