![]() Vivid cast, bristling action, neat surprises-and it's funny. Which parallels precisely the way Lucas feels about her. While she likes and respects him, she knows there's no safety for her until she kills him. Like the talented guerilla she is, Clara strikes with elegant ferocity, taking out her targets as planned, staying an infuriating step ahead of all her adversaries, including Lucas. In his day job, Lucas is Minneapolis's Deputy Police Chief, but the FBI drafts him for an all-out war. At this point, enter series hero Lucas Davenport ( Chosen Prey, 2001, etc.), one of the few ever to survive a one-on-one with Clara ( Certain Prey, 1999). She decides they've formed a cabal against her and that it's time to become proactive. Louis, where she made her world-class reputation, there are five powerful men who regularly hired her gun and who might have begun to worry about how deeply she was clued into their various nefarious operations. During her long convalescence, however, Clara has a chance to rethink that. Since Paulo was the son of a notorious Mexican crime family, conventional wisdom names him as the mark. ![]() Fatally wounded in the same ambush is her lover, the man whose child she was carrying. We meet her first as victim (shrewd Sandford), ambushed, gunned down in cold-blood. Though his Clara Rinker kills for money, he puts so human a face on her it requires an act of will to resist her appeal. What Sandford does as well if not better than any other crime fiction writer is make good villains. ![]() Professional hit-woman Clara Rinker returns for another shot at Lucas Davenport as the brilliant Prey series reaches 13 with nary a sign of dross on its gloss.
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