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John Sandford: Rules of Prey (USA 2019) From the Publisher: The killer was mad but brilliant. He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used... But Lucas Davenport, the cop who's out to get him, isn't playing by the rules. John Sandford: Rules of Prey. A Lucas Davenport Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780525542513 (June, 2019), 432 p., $9.99.
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John Sandford: Rules of Prey (UK 2018) From the Publisher: The killer was mad but brilliant. He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used... But Lucas Davenport, the cop who's out to get him, isn't playing by the rules. John Sandford: Rules of Prey. The classic thriller that started it all. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781471179037 (November, 2018), 448 p., £8.99, eBook £0.99.
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John Sandford: Rules of Prey (USA 2005) From the Publisher: John Sandford: Rules of Prey. With a New Introduction by John Sandford. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425205819 (August, 2005), 368 p., $7.99.
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John Sandford: Rules of Prey (USA 1989) From the Publisher: The murderer was intelligent. He was a member of the bar. He derived rules based on professional examination of actual cases: Never kill anyone you know. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used. Beware of leaving physical evidence. There were more. He built them into a challenge. He was mad, of course... With the force of Lawrence Sanders and the realism of Scott Turow, John Sandford has created an astonishingly gripping novel, one that penetrates to the heart of our darkest fears. The killer's name is Louis Vullion, a low-key young attorney who, under the camouflage of normalcy, researches his next female victim until the pressure within him forces him to reach out and "collect" her. Plying his secret craft with the tactics of a games master, he has gripped the Twin Cities in a storm of terror more fierce than any Minnesota winter. It is after the third murder that Lucas Davenport is called in. It is the opinion of his colleagues that everything about the lieutenant is a little different, and they are right -- in the computer games he invents and sells, in the Porsche he drives to work, in the quality of the women he attracts, in his single-minded pursuit of justice. The only member of the department's Office of Special Intelligence, Davenport prefers to work alone, parallel with Homicide, and there is something about this serial killer that he quickly understands. The man who signs himself "maddog" in taunting notes to the police is no textbook sociopath; he has a perverse playfulness that makes him kill for the sheer contest of it. He is a player. Which means that Davenport will have to put all his mental strength -- and physical courage -- on the line to lear to think like the killer. For the only way to beat the mad-dog is at his own hellish game. In Rules of Prey, John Sandford demonstrates the narrative ease of a born storyteller and an insight into character and motivation that is remarkable for its compassion and psychological truth. It is a stunning debut. John Sandford is the pseudonym of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. John Sandford: Rules of Prey. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399134654 (July, 1989), 317 p., $16.95.
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