Judgement Prey
A Lucas Davenport & Virgil Flowers thriller
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4.3 • 60 Ratings
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Publisher Description
‘One of the great novelists of all time’ STEPHEN KING
‘One of the finest thriller series in existence. Sandford is superb - in a class of his own’ JOHN CONNOLLY
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
When federal judge Alex Sand and his two young sons are shot in cold blood at their family home, the brutality of the murders leaves their wealthy St. Paul community reeling. There's no shortage of people with a vendetta against the judge, but the collapse of a major charitable donation he had planned complicates things further, leaving the money in limbo and all eyes on his grief-stricken widow.
As public pressure mounts and both the local police force and the FBI hit one dead end after another, it isn't long before Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in. The duo are determined to chase down every angle and every theory until they figure out who killed the Sands. But when they find themselves stonewalled by the most unlikely of forces, they begin to wonder if each misdirection might actually lead them closer to the truth . . .
PRAISE FOR JOHN SANDFORD AND THE PREY SERIES:
‘A series writer who reads like a breath of fresh air’ Daily Mirror
‘John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating the gut-level shocks of a good thriller’ New York Times Book Review
‘John Sandford has the Midas touch’ Huffington Post
‘Delivers twists to the very last sentence’ Daily Mail
‘Crime writer John Sandford is one of the best around’ Sun
‘An exciting and superbly elegant demonstration of intelligent crime writing’ Guardian
‘Tough, engrossing and engaging, Sandford writes superb thrillers’ Literary Review
‘Few do it better than Sandford’ Daily Telegraph
Customer Reviews
The boys are back in town
The author is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist turned novelist who has churned out almost 60 titles in the crime genre. More than half feature Minnesota-based US Marshal Lucas Davenport and have the word ‘prey’ in the title. Another 25% feature somewhat younger Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) agent Virgil Flowers. Three, including this one, have both.
A Federal court judge and two of his three kids are shot dead in the family home in St Paul. The locals are all over it, but getting nowhere. Ditto the FBI. Our boys are legends in the Twin Cities for their unconventional methods, high success rate and body counts. Lucas is still convalescing from events in the last novel, while Virgie is busy writing his second novel (a thriller, of course), but they’re happy to help out. The vic’s wife is a feisty actress turned college lecturer with an agenda — revenge — and a girlfriend of her own. The boys call in favours, and wisecrack big time as they pursue leads, unsuccessfully in the main, although they do uncover corporate chicanery that makes a good secondary plot line. Everything comes together in the end amid snow flurries and rather less bloodshed than is usual for these two, although enough to be going on with.
Nothing new to see here but the entertainment value is high. Mr S, who will be eighty next year, still has his mojo.
Classic Davenport and Flowers
I love the banter between these characters and their other cop buddies..
I’m always impressed by everything written by John Sandford… you can be on the edge of the seat yet smiling at the chatter between characters, there is always a feeling of realness even though it’s fiction, I guess that’s what makes it so thoroughly enjoyable..
Well done once again John Sandford..
Excellent reading - thoroughly enjoyable
Well developed plot, no tangents or irrelevant fill. Enjoyable and entertaining sarcasm and cynicism between main characters.