Judgment Prey
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4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
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Publisher Description
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.
Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there’s no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, Heart/Twin Cities, and with the money in limbo, eyes suddenly turn to his grieving widow, Margaret Cooper, to see what she might do with the money. Margaret, distraught over the death of her family, struggles to move forward, and can’t imagine how or why anyone would target her husband.
With public pressure mounting and both the local police force and FBI hitting dead end after dead end, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to do what others could not: find answers. With each potential lead flawed, Davenport and Flowers are determined to chase every theory until they figure out who killed the Sands. But when they find themselves being stonewalled by the most unlikely of forces, the two wonder if perhaps each misdirection could lead them closer to the truth.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A judge and his two sons are brutally shot in their home, setting off a puzzling chase in this high-powered thriller. U.S. Deputy Marshal Lucas Davenport and Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers, both recovering from a near-fatal shoot-out, are called in to consult, and they find leads pointing in several directions, including a questionable charity and some ex-cons holding grudges. But they can also tell that the judge’s widow is holding something back—something that could get them all killed. Author John Sandford is firing on all cylinders in this action-packed installment of his long-running Lucas Davenport series. There’s an ease to the way Lucas and Virgil interact with everyone in their well-constructed world, from witnesses to fellow law enforcement, that makes the two feel like total pros. It also happens to make this thrill ride feel even more breathtakingly real.
Customer Reviews
Partners
4 Stars. Typical Sanford. He’s always so very good. Just about any other author would get 5 for this but a Sanford 4 is something of his own. Lucas might have met his long lost baby sister in Cooper. I actually agree with how she felt. In the end, the results she sought were almost there.
Virgil has always been Lucas’ conscience, none really more than here. These two are one of the most fun teams to read. At first I thought losing a Virgil book every year was a problem. Maybe I was wrong. The Partner books are worth it. I can’t wait ‘til next Fall.
Woke?
By his comments about people on the right, it’s pretty obvious that Camp is on the left. It’s not too surprising that he created a protagonist who is willing to take the law into his or her own hands and kill people. He writes a good book, but seems to have very poor judgement.
Judgement Prey
It’s like watching paint dry.