Book Review: Storm Prey by John Sandford

Storm Prey
John Sandford
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, May 2010
ISBN 9780399156496
Hardcover

Surgeon Weather Karkinnen doesn’t think anything about the guy she saw in the elevator one morning on her way to work, a scheduled separation of conjoined twins.  Unfortunately for her, that man is directly connected to the pharmacy robbery, the one that shut the hospital down and postponed the surgery.  It takes a while for everyone to make that connection; Lucas Davenport is very unhappy with the implications once that connection is made.  Weather is a witness, the only surviving witness.  The robbers want to make her go away.

Sandford has written another page-turning thriller.  The robbers are, every single person, a stupid lot.  Their stupidity, individually and collectively, results in a great many people dying.  Some of them fairly painfully.  The whole novel takes place in, I think, under a week.  The pace is furious.  The characters breathe – some of them for far longer than they should.  It’s scary to read about so much violence coming out of so much stupidity; this makes a scary world even scarier.

My biggest problem?  The robbery scene is SO totally wrong.  I work in a small hospital pharmacy.  One of my best friends works in a hospital pharmacy in a hospital much like the Minnesota Medical Research Center.  We agree.  The robbery scene could not, would not have happened as Sandford wrote it.  Once I got past that, the book was wonderful.  Maybe it won’t bother anyone else, except pharmacy folk.

Reviewed by P.J. Coldren, July 2010.

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July 28, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews

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