Lucas Davenport Battles trouble everywhere - including their homes - in Wicked Prey

A band of hard-core predators, a pimp revenge on the world and a lone madman with a gun are only three of the dangers of dogging a veteran police officer in Minneapolis Wicked Prey, the latest John Sandford-series anti-hero, Lucas Davenport.

The Republicans, with their huge convention in St. Paul, and Davenport concerned about security. political conventions means money, and money attracts more reason bad boys Lucas. The veteran cop's instinct rarely control it wrong, and hea bad feeling about this.

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Davenport is right, of course. Brutus Cohn is a professional criminal, a high-end thieves and kidnappers in search of a last big score to retire. His team is aware of a number of ways to money men in the city that will be delivered in cash to grease the wheels of the campaign. Hitting is the perfect crime, because they are with huge amounts of money, because what they do is illegal, can not go well, thePolice.

Randy Whitcomb is a paraplegic ex-con, a pimp, which led to last run-in with Davenport set the shot that Whitcomb in a wheelchair. Lucas does not pull the trigger themselves, but Whitcomb still raises the policeman, and is looking for a little 'payback. If only he could get his hands on 14-year-old adopted daughter Whitcomb Davenport could also things ...

Justice Shafer is a loner with a history of right. He also has a 0.50 caliber rifle, and waitOrders to shoot people.

John Sandford (the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp) is particularly adept at developing interesting characters on both sides of the law. The good guys are not always what is good and evil is not always so bad. This is the case in Davenport that is usually on the right side of things, but has some problems of how to get it. If a witness is to be used as bait, or if certain rules are bypassed, thenit.

Wicked In Prey, Lucas discovered similar features to Letty West, who took 14-year-old, at his home after he lost his mother in Naked Prey. Despite exasperation Lucas' stubborn strips with Letty, and tends to turn off the massage to order events to their advantage, they know where they acquired these properties and approved in secret.

While the earlier novels were heavy on action Prey (Lucas as older and gain seniority, he is on the streets less), I remember how Sandfordto build tension. Snowballs as Randy voltage approaches the door asking for revenge and robbery last great Cohn Shafer ambush on the outskirts of the Republicans, ready to make a statement with the rifle. And what the hell is Letty up at all?

All this, plus the usual snappy dialogue, make a nice addition to Wicked Prey Sandford Lucas Davenport 18 previous novels.

Lucas Davenport Battles trouble everywhere - including their homes - in Wicked Prey