{"id":3688,"date":"2007-04-10T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:12:37","slug":"book-report-hidden-prey-by-john-sandford-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/book-report-hidden-prey-by-john-sandford-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Hidden Prey by John Sandford (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book precedes the last book I read (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/book-report-broken-prey-by-john-sandford-2005\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Broken Prey<\/i><\/a>), so I put them in the wrong order when I lined them up on my bookshelf.  As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, the events in Lucas Davenport&#8217;s life are background material, and the plots of the books are the important things within the novels.<\/p>\n<p>This one differs from the rest, which differ from each other pleasingly.  Davenport looks into the murder of a Russian sailor who formerly worked for the KGB.  Was it a Russian mafia thing?  A spy thing?  Or could it be a hidden sleeper cell within the northern reaches of Minnesota?<\/p>\n<p>Two things detracted from the book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Russian security operative, Nadya, who is sent to oversee the investigation.  No problem.  Overreliance upon her saying, &#8220;What is this (insert American idiom)?&#8221;  That can be a problem when overused.  As a matter of fact, it was a problem.\n<li>2 typographical errors: an extra space before a comma and the misspelling of Del&#8217;s name as Dell.  Come on, guys, you gotta try harder.<\/ul>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve nticed that Sandford&#8217;s novels have common pacing: 250-275 pages of chasing herrings and investigating followed by 50-75 pages of manic chase the real criminal action.  As such, the climaxes often are forced and kinda rush past you.  This book is no exception.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000FZDKV6&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book precedes the last book I read (Broken Prey), so I put them in the wrong order when I lined them up on my bookshelf. As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, the events in Lucas Davenport&#8217;s life are background material, and the plots of the books are the important things within the novels. This one differs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18160,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/18160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}