                             Secret Prey
                 (The ninth book in the Prey series)
                               (1998)
                             A novel by
                            John Sandford
                               Read by
                           Richard Ferrone
                               11 CDs


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 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 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. 
