Título: Rules of Prey
Autor: John Sandford
Sinopse: The murderer was intelligent. He was a member of the bar. He derived rules based on professional examination of actual cases: Never kill anyone you know. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used. Beware of leaving physical evidence. There were more. He built them into a challenge. He was mad, of course . . . The killer's name is Louis Vullion, a low-key young attorney who, under the camouflage of normalcy, researches his next female victim until the pressure within him forces him to reach out and "collect" her. Plying his secret craft with the tactics of a games master, he has gripped the Twin Cities in a storm of terror more fierce than any Minnesota winter. It is after the third murder that Lucas Davenport is called in. It is the opinion of his colleagues that everything about the lieutenant is a little different, and they are right – in the computer games he invents and sells, in the Porsche he drives to work, in the quality of the women he attracts, in his single-minded pursuit of justice. The only member of the department's Office of Special Intelligence, Davenport prefers to work alone, parallel with Homicide, and there is something about this serial killer that he quickly understands. The man who signs himself "maddog" in taunting notes to the police is no textbook sociopath; he has a perverse playfulness that makes him kill for the sheer contest of it. He is a player. Which means that Davenport will have to put all his mental strength – and physical courage – on the line to learn to think like the killer. For the only way to beat the maddog is at his own hellish game. . .
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Rules of Prey”, de John Sandford, publicado pela editora Berkley, em 1989 e com 479 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Berkley
Páginas: 479
Ano: 1989
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0425121631
ISBN13: 9780425121634
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Berkley costumam mergulhar o leitor em histórias onde o conflito pessoal e o suspense caminham lado a lado, muitas vezes ambientados em cenários que vão desde a alta sociedade vitoriana até cidades contemporâneas marcadas por mistérios e dramas familiares. A narrativa privilegia personagens complexos, como heróis marcados por traumas, mulheres independentes em busca de autonomia, e protagonistas que enfrentam ameaças tanto externas quanto internas. O tom varia entre o romântico e o tenso, com ritmo que ora acelera em thrillers e romances paranormais, ora desacelera para explorar relações íntimas e dilemas emocionais. Este catálogo revela uma preferência por tramas que combinam tensão psicológica com elementos de mistério, além de histórias que exploram laços familiares e desafios pessoais em ambientes sociais específicos.
