Prey

by Ken Goddard

Book Overview

The Director of The National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory and the author of the New York Times bestseller Balefire tells an electrifying story of violence and terror in the American wilderness. Goddard has a keen sense of how to hold the reader --Clive Cussler.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031285112X
• ISBN13: 9780312851125
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Fast and thrilling

This was the first of Ken Goddard's books I read, and continues to be my favorite. He has a unique writing style that is descriptive (for those of us that don't know weapons well) while not being overdone. The story is far-fetched but who cares! Goddard takes the reader on a whirlwind of suspence and crime. I couldn't put the book down and once I finished I had to find another story about that rogue cop turned wildlife agent, Henry Lightstone.

A pretty good action/adventure romp!

I have never read any of Ken Goddard's books and PREY was my first (and won't be my last) novel that I have read and liked. It was never boring and has lots of interesting characters, good and bad. The only thing I didn't like about it was the main character Lightstone, only because he has such an american indian name but no background or reference of his heritage was revealed, so I didn't really get to know the character very much except he likes sports and obviously knows something about weapons and martial arts. The weapons part I can understand since he is a cop after all, but again no explanation on how he knows all those karate moves! But I usually don't read this kind of book but I love action/adventure series, and this gave me that! So I suppose it piqued my interest to read the next installment. But according to the reviews the next two are weak, but I will give my own opinion. The author deserves it in my opinion.

Awesome!

The story was great and flowed smoothly I picked it up and didn't put it down 'till I was done!

Not bad; not bad at all.

Non-stop action from beginning to end. However, a lot of the action is related through dialogue and this has a tendency to slow the pace of the story. The author is one of the few to introduce a woman as a villain and I would really have liked to have seen her character fleshed out some more. It would have been interesting to have had herself and Lightner in a situation where they were pursued by both the good guys and the bad guys. Apart from that, this was an altogether enjoyable read.