![]() ![]() It is part of the Lucas Davenport #28 series and is a thriller in a Kindle edition that was published by G.P. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I plan to edit these pages as needed.I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. To get more organized, I’ve decided to create a series of author posts with lists of novels and links to my reviews. I thought blogging would help, which it does, but I don’t always review everything I read. He has a special talent to be able to keep his novels relevant years after they were first published.Īn aspiring writer would do well to study John Sandford’s techniques.īecause I read a lot of mysteries, I’ve been trying to come up with a better system to keep track of which novels I’ve finished. You can get to know him better in this video of his book signing for Extreme Prey.Īs Douglas Preston notes, John Sandford’s works seem prescient at times. John Sandford is a frequent guest at Poisoned Pen Bookstore. The cool thing is, with the Prey series it isn’t a given that everything will be wrapped up neatly in a bow at the end. The readers spends the rest of the time wondering if Davenport will also be able to figure out what is going on and stop the criminals in time. Readers learn quite soon who is behind the dirty tricks and also what happened to the guy who disappeared. The Lucas Davenport novels are firmly in the thriller camp. According to his website, Sandford apparently researches criminals (true crime) so that his antagonists are fictionalized versions of real people or events. His villains are also memorable and well-developed, something that isn’t always easy to do. … now wore what Lucas called “the drabs: brown or gray dresses and long stockings with a little brown coif stuck on top of her head like the vanilla twist on a Dairy Queen cone.Ĭan’t you see her? Although, if the coif is brown, perhaps it should have been a chocolate twist? Lauren opened the door, a slender woman, not tall, with red hair and high cheekbones and a big smile. He has a way of introducing each new person vividly and with memorable details, so that it is easy to keep them straight. John Sandford is an absolute master at creating fully-rounded characters. Is she the one and will Lucas be able to stop her? Characters When a political fixer disappears, the trail of dirty tricks points to the senator’s opponent, a smart and powerful young woman. ![]() ![]() The governor entices Lucas Davenport to investigate whether the senator was framed and if so, by whom. ![]() Jacket Blurb: Dirty politics hits a new low when one of the candidates of a close race, an incumbent U.S. He also has a series featuring Virgil Flowers (as John Sandford) and the Kidd series, originally published under the name John Camp (some more recent editions name John Sandford instead). Marshals Service and travels throughout the U.S.Ģ7. In the later novels, he goes to work for the U.S. The Prey series featuring Lucas Davenport:įor the earlier novels, Lucas Davenport works for various law enforcement agencies in the city of Minneapolis. You can find out why he chose to write under a pseudonym for the Prey series and more at his website. After a distinguished career, including winning a Pulitzer, he decided that he could make more money writing novels. John Sandford (real name John Roswell Camp) started out as a journalist. ![]()
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