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Mortal Prey

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(this review is for the Mass Market paperback edition published by Berkley in May, 2003)

Clara Rinker, last seen in Certain Prey, is back in the latest in the Davenport series. We first find her in Mexico, happily in hiding, where she has met a man, fallen in love and is pregnant and planning to get married. All that falls apart when an assassination attempt on her goes wrong, kills her fiancé and injures her badly enough to cause her to lose her baby. When she recovers, she heads back to the US with vengeance in her heart.

This, of course, puts her back in the FBI's sights, and they call in Lucas Davenport to help track her down. As she systematically kills off the men she used to work for and with, Davenport and the FBI team close in on her - will they catch her first, or will she catch them in the sights of her rifle first?

I always liked Clara Rinker, as does Davenport. She is a very sympathetic character, despite the whole being an assassin thing, and the reader tends to hope she will get away and find a place to hide and get to live happily ever after.

I love all the Davenport books, but I especially like "Certain" and "Mortal" because of Clara's character, and as I mentioned in my review of "Certain Prey," I sure wish things had turned out differently and Clara could have become a recurring character.

Don't miss out on this one, especially if you're a fan of the suspense/thriller genre.

I counted 7 'ands' in one sentence. That is not good writing. I often found myself rereading sentences more than once to understand what was going on. In fact, I had 10 or so pages left to read and simply put the book down for good because of poor basic writing skills.