Hidden Prey is the 14th of the books in the Prey series that feature Lucas Davenport.
This John Sandford novel had a publication date of May 11, 2004.
Hidden Prey book description
Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed.
On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why he was killed, everybody – the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves – has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that’s when it hits the fan.
A Russian cop flies in from Moscow, Davenport flies in from Minneapolis, law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene – and, in the middle of it all, there is another murder.
Is there a relationship between the two? What is the Russian cop hiding from Davenport? Is she – yes, it’s a woman – a cop at all? Why was the man shot with fifty-year-old bullets?
Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there – shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.