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An extraordinary Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.
After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation—no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. “Should be fun!” he says, and it kind of is—until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor...and anyone who gets in the way.
After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation—no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. “Should be fun!” he says, and it kind of is—until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor...and anyone who gets in the way.
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Believable charactersFunny writingOriginal writingFast-pacedRealistic settingThought-provokingViolence
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“What to say about this book? It's John Sanford. It's Lucas Davenport. That should be enough! If you are a Sanford/Davenport fan, you'll know what that means. Our guy, Davenport, plunged into a race against time to find a killer, complete with non-stop action, unforeseeable twists and turns, and high-octane suspense--even when you know who the killer is. If you haven't read Sanford/Davenport before, you CAN start with this book, but I would recommend beginning with the first book in the series, Rules of Prey, and working from there. Extreme Prey provides you with sketchy mini-bios on the people a fan would already know, and that's enough to get you through the book, but not enough to convey the depth and true nature of the relationships.
This book is actually, despite Davenport's assistance at the beginning from Kidd and Elle, pretty much a solitary endeavor. His colleagues in the trenches of this case are all new, out-of-town people, as this crime is going down in Iowa instead of Lucas's home state of Minnesota. As usual, we know who the killers are right from the beginning--we're just waiting for Lucas to find out, and then handle the easy part--catching them! A presidential candidate's life is in danger from, of all things, terrorist farmers! What other kind of terrorists would you have in the cornfields of Iowa, right? Turns out these farmers mean business, and Lucas has to find and stop them before the Iowa State Fair. As usual, despite the reader's knowledge of the characters and their actions, there is still plenty of suspense to go around. Sanford has no qualms about allowing characters you know and like to get shot, and even die. Lucas doesn't always "get his man." He doesn't always ride off into the sunset (in his Porsche), victorious over evil yet again. So even though you, the reader, know both what the villains and Lucas are up to, you still don't know who's going to win.
I have to admit, I'm curious about what comes next. When I saw that Flowers, Kidd, and Elle are all in this book, I got a sinking feeling. It looks an awful lot like a farewell tour. But the book ends with
Anyway, I highly recommend the series. It has kept my attention and loyalty for lo, these many years. Here's one of my favorite quotes from the book:
"As they were rolling out of the Southers' driveway, the couple watching them go, Wood said, 'You honest to God collect poetry? I didn't know you were a delicate little rosebud.'
'I'm pretty delicate,' Lucas admitted. 'You know, when I'm not beating somebody senseless' " (295).”
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About John Sandford
John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of twenty-six Prey novels; four Kidd novels; eight Virgil Flowers novels; two YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook; and three other books, most recently Saturn Run.
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