{"id":4159,"date":"2007-12-21T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2017-11-24T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:31:09","slug":"book-report-mind-prey-by-john-sandford-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/book-report-mind-prey-by-john-sandford-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Mind Prey by John Sandford (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I move the books and the MfBJN home office, I&#8217;ve shuffled through my to-read shelves and have found a couple of books that I would have surely read by now if I&#8217;d known they were present.  This book is one of them.  The Lucas Davenport novels are pretty good genre reads.<\/p>\n<p>This book, from the middle 1990s, details Davenport&#8217;s search for a madman who has kidnapped a shrink and her two daughters and keeps them hidden in a root cellar in the country.  Davenport marshals his team (sorry, Deputy Chiefs his team) to find the perp and to hopefully rescue as many as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Davenport novels have a good sense of the upper Midwest, but like in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/book-report-mortal-prey-by-john-sandford-2002\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Mortal Prey<\/i><\/a>, someone in the know will find a jarring inaccuracy.  In that book, it was little things about St. Louis; in this book, it&#8217;s when discussing GenCon (whose t-shirt the bad guy was seen wearing).  Davenport explains it off-handedly that it&#8217;s a gaming convention <i>in Lake Geneva<\/i>.  Although the name comes from Lake Geneva, the convention was held in Milwaukee at the time.  Take my word for it.  Before I was living in St. Louis to prepare my John Sandford fact-checking abilities, I lived in Milwaukee and attended GenCon to hone my John Sandford fact-checking abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of those occasional devil chords of obvious problems (which probably include things about which I don&#8217;t know, so I don&#8217;t hear the <i>krang!<\/i>), the books remain readable and enjoyable, and I&#8217;ll get around to the one remaining Sandford on my shelves (<i>Dead Watch<\/i>) one of these days.<\/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=0425152898&#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>As I move the books and the MfBJN home office, I&#8217;ve shuffled through my to-read shelves and have found a couple of books that I would have surely read by now if I&#8217;d known they were present. This book is one of them. The Lucas Davenport novels are pretty good genre reads. This book, from [&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-4159","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\/4159","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=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17706,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions\/17706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}