'I never miss a Prey book, and this one is especially good. And when a woman like Clara has the advantage, no one is safe. She knows how to penetrate them, and how to use them. Lucas Davenport has no idea of the toll this case is about to take on him. This time, there’s one loose end that’s hard to shake. Clara usually knows how to deal with loose ends: cut them off, one by one, until they're all gone. Her latest hit sounds simple: a defense attorney wants a rival eliminated. She just goes about her business, collects her money, and goes home. A lot of people made this come full circle, but from where I sit, you hope to make it work in a different way than the series works.Clara Rinker is twenty-eight, beautiful, charmingly southern-and the best hit woman in the business.

'There's a big difference between sitting in a room where people want to work with you and having to try to convince people to work with you. 'Now it's about whether people watch the movie and like it,' he reasons. That's fine with Harmon, who will mark his 25th wedding anniversary with 'Mork & Mindy' actress Pam Dawber in March.

USA will lead directly into 'Certain Prey' with a marathon of 'NCIS' episodes. I just thought the project, and the material, warranted the opportunity and the try.' 'It also was important for me to do this, because getting back out there with a different crew and different people puts you back in touch with what the life of an actor is. To take a hunk of that and say, 'This is what I'm going to go do,' takes a degree of judgment. Such honesty is typical of Harmon, who reflects that with the schedule of 'NCIS' - which typically is at or near the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings - 'You know you have six or seven weeks off. I've watched it too many times to make an objective judgment.' 'USA certainly provided a template to do this in a manner other than a (broadcast) network manner, but it's a difficult character and an edgy story, as most of these (Sandford) books are.

The people involved jumped into it thinking this would be an appropriate first step, to see what we had. Parker's novels about lawman Jesse Stone: 'Tom's done a great job with those, but if this first one does not do well, I don't know there ever will be a second one. Harmon acknowledges what Tom Selleck has done with his recurring CBS movies based on Robert B. This one came a number of books into the series, and the start of the book sets up other characters, so to find a way to get Davenport to the front end took some doing.' 'Taking a book and making it a screenplay is a different enchilada. 'I seem to be lured by the edges more than what's out front, with any character,' he notes. Now in Season 9 of playing naval investigative team leader Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Harmon sees commonalities in Davenport.

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