Toxic Prey - John Sandford

Toxic Prey

By John Sandford

  • Release Date: 2024-04-09
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 2,303 Ratings

Description

Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

Gaia is dying.

That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is untenable, and the direct link to Earth’s death spiral; population levels are out of control and people have allowed disarray and disorder to run rampant. While most are concerned about deadly disease, Scott knows that it is truly humanity itself that will destroy Gaia. It’s only by removing the threat that the planet can continue to prosper, and luckily, Scott is just the right man for the job…


When Scott then disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport is tasked with tracking down any and all leads. Scott’s connections to sensitive research into virus and pathogen spread has multiple national and international organizations on high alert, and his shockingly high clearance levels at various institutions, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, make him the last person they’d like to go missing. As the web around Scott becomes more tangled, Letty calls in her father, Lucas, help her lead a group of specialists to find Scott as soon as possible. But as Letty and Lucas begin to uncover startling and disturbing connections between Scott and Gaia conspiracists, their worst fears are confirmed, and it quickly becomes a race to find him before the virus he created becomes the perfect weapon.

Reviews

  • Hope this isn’t a trend…

    2
    By aubue8
    This seemed like a phone it in. Reminds me of what happened to Stuart woods. Dialog is just he said, she, said, she said with no thought. Like letty previous but her character wasn’t good in this one. Too many other characters with no real point for them in the story.
  • Thanks John

    5
    By Scott_A_Miller
    5 Stars. I heard a bunch of bad things about this one and for me, they were wrong. People don’t like Letty. I do. My guess is the subject matter bothered some people’s politics, which is nothing new in this wonderful world we find ourselves living in today. For me, it was frightening and all too realistic. I truly hope that it doesn’t play out in my lifetime but I’m not holding my breath given recent events. I like Letty. She’s definitely her father’s daughter and I welcome more books with her if Sanford wants to give them to us. The Prey novels will always be in my top ten series, probably towards the top.
  • Toxic PREY

    5
    By texasfan2011
    Having just spent the summer in Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, I particularly enjoyed the book. The details about each city, the airports, highways, people and culture were spot on. Nice mix of roles for Letty and Lucas.
  • One of Sandford’s BEST!

    5
    By StreamlinerFan
    Before I read Toxic Prey, I went back and reread every Prey book, every Virgil book and the two Letty books. I truly love these books and feel that Toxic Prey was just wonderful—if not quite scary.
  • Couldn’t put it down

    5
    By Chief -
    Great plot. Even better pacing.
  • Toxic Prey

    3
    By Petepal1
    Chilling! Scary! Way too real.
  • Toxic Prey

    5
    By Booklove2
    Great read!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Toxic waste

    2
    By WJRJRWJR
    Lots of drama but it takes forever to get to the end. It was written on how many words could be put in book.
  • Just okay

    1
    By pegneck
    Started out okay just to much repetitive thoughts Like trying to fill pages with words .
  • Best Prey novel Yet

    5
    By breed888
    Maybe the best Sanford Pray novel yet. It was plausible, a page turner, terrifying and very well written. You know you get to one of those novels where you’re reading fast and then you want to put it down for fear of what the next page will hold. Well get ready if you have not read one like that recently or ever it will happen to you here.

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