Revenge Prey, John Sandford
Revenge Prey, John Sandford
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Revenge Prey

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Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/07/2026

Synopsis

Lucas Davenport must track down a ruthless Russian hit team, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

Leonard Summers—not his real name—is on the run. A former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. after providing critical information about Russian spies in U.S. government service, Leonard,  his wife Martha, and son Bernard have spent the past year holed up in a CIA facility near Washington. After the CIA makes a deal with the U.S. Marshal Service’s Witness Protection Program (WPP), Leonard’s family is transported to Minneapolis. The plan is to hide them in a wooded Minneapolis suburb that resembles their former home and dacha near Moscow.

The Summers are received at their destination by Lucas Davenport and fellow marshal Shelly White. Unbeknownst to them, the WPP group has been tracked by a Russian hit team. And while nobody in the WPP has ever been attacked…Leonard might be the first victim. As shots are fired and enemies dodged, Lucas must move quickly to uncover where the leak is coming from, before the hit team can strike again.

About John Sandford

American author, John Sanford (a pseudonym of John Roswell Camp) wrote thirty-five novels, all of which are on the New York Times bestsellers list in one way or another. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1944, where he spent much of his time with his Lithuanian grandparents. Their home was very primitive with an outside outhouse and a subsistence garden. Life was work centered on the farm with hay being bailed each summer to feed the various farm animals. Fruit trees were also in abundance on their property. It was a good place to grow up.

Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He also wrote two non-fiction books. The Eye and the Heart: The Water Colors of John Stuart Ingle, and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.

Camp was married to Susan Lee Jones, and has two children. Susan died in May 2007 of metastasized breast cancer, and he married again in 2013 to Michele Cook, a journalist and screenwriter. Camp is a dedicated painter and photographer also. He, however, does not show his paintings.

Camp's most prolific work is the Prey series of which there are currently twenty-five installments, running from 1989 - 2015.......the first being Rules of Prey and the most recent, Gathering Prey, which debuted on April 28, 2015. Other series include The Kidd Series, The Virgil Flowers Series, The Singular Menace Series, and other various books and short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on February 03, 2026

Another good Lucas Davenport installment. This one seemed a little more cut and dried compared to previous books in the series, but it still had Lucas's enjoyable wit, and of course his banter with others. Of course there's appearances by favorites in the series as well. A good, solid thriller. Thank......more

Goodreads review by Kristine on November 22, 2025

I need to start off by saying that I am a huge fan of this author and this series. We are well over 50 books with this series and with the spin offs- Virgil Flowers, Letty Davenport, etc. So, yep, I am always thrilled when I get the opportunity to read an ARC. I was thinking when I was reading this,......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 23, 2025

Thank you to NetGalley and G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS for the advanced reader copy, all opinions are my own. It's safe to say the Davenport series is the longest running series I've read across the last 30 years of my life and yet somehow, John Sandford keeps it fresh and interesting every time. These books......more

Goodreads review by Howard on November 16, 2025

3 stars I found this novel to be mildly interesting and not as exciting as several other Lucas Davenport novels. The plot centers around a Russian family in the witness protection program and a search for a “mole” who seems to have all the information about their whereabouts. The book is wordy and ov......more

Goodreads review by Brad on November 11, 2025

Revenge Prey is the 36th book in the Lucas Davenport Prey series from John Sandford. "The marshals are moving a Russian defector into Witness Protection when he is shot by a hit team. Lucas and his partner fire back and manage to wound one of the assassins. Now they have to find them and find the lea......more

Quotes

One of New York Post's New Page-Turning Thrillers

Praise for John Sandford and the Prey novels

"If you haven’t read Sandford yet, you have been missing one of the great summer-read novelists of all time." —Stephen King

"[Lucas Davenport] is a hero for these perilous times." —The New York Times Book Review

"Sandford’s power of storytelling shines through the pages." —Mystery Tribune
"Sandford is among the finer writers in the genre." —The Post and Courier

"The Prey novels are wildly entertaining with their clever plotting, mordant humor, and smart-ass dialogue." —Booklist

"Sandford’s trademark blend of rough humor and deadly action keeps the pages turning." —Publishers Weekly

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