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I enjoyed this book from cover to cover. I think you will also. Enjoy!!
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I have read almost every book in the prey series and this is one of my favorites. Lucas and Weather are married and have a baby. Lucas now works for the Governor under his old boss Rose Marie and his old sidekick Dell is working with him. This is a good story involving kidnapping, murder, money and drugs, and Lucas winds up being good friends with a 12 year old Tomboy. Try it you'll like it.
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This is one of the better Prey books! Lucas and Del are on the hunt for kidnapper/killers in a small town. There is definitely something strange going on in this little town, but they can't put their finger on it. I didn't want to put it down!
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Sandford gets back to basics in this stellar 14th installment of his hugely popular Prey series, focusing on the long-standing duo of Davenport and Capslock. As the novel begins, the indomitable Lucas Davenport (now happily married, a contented father and bored out of his mind) is slogging through the northern tundra of Broderick, Minn., to inspect the naked dangling corpses of a white woman and black man ("They were frozen. Like Popsicles.") that have shocked the locals as well as Minnesota's governor with the ugly specter of a lynching. Davenport, now more or less a free agent for the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension ("I kick people's asses"), is unleashed by the governor, giving Davenport and his scruffy sidekick, Del Capslock, a chance to escape their square city lives and catch the villain(s) while staving off the media vultures, Sandford's trademark subplot. As in previous novels, the original crime (rendered in a truly horrific opening sequence) is merely the gateway to a deeper, more insidious criminal enterprise, this one an international labyrinth of stolen cars, drugs, gambling and kidnapping. Some truly vicious familial machinations in the small town contrast well with Davenport's staid and stable home life. Another pleasant surprise is the precocious Letty West, whose awakening teenage sensibilities make an impression on Davenport. Sandford's usual background details (readers will learn how to run a muskrat trapline and how an Indian casino operates) are deftly woven into the fabric. This latest installment in a series now a decade and a half old is vintage Sandford.
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