“Fast paced and full of surprises, this may be Sandford’s best novel yet. “All but impossible to put down.”- The Washington Post And there is worse to come-much, much worse. Lynching is the word everyone’s trying not to say, but as Lucas Davenport begins to discover, the murders are not at all what they appear to be. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is the bodies are of a black man and a white woman. ![]() Two people are found hanging naked from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. MediaType eBook shortDescription The #1 New York Times bestselling Lucas Davenport novel from John Sandford. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Not yet as well known here as he is in the US, but the reputation is growing. Sandford builds up the tension and suspense from the outset, leaving the reader in the grip of another highly effective thriller. ![]() This is, to put it mildly, a sensitive case, with issues of race and local history lurking in the background, yet these murders are not what they at first sight seem to be. Lucas Davenport investigates now married, a new father and lately relocated due to the promotion of his boss, Rose Marie Roux. In the woods of northern Minnesota the bodies of a naked black man and a white woman are found hanging from a tree, apparently lynched. Gripping new fiction from a prolific author who regularly tops the bestseller lists in the US. Meanwhile, all the author's usual trademarks are on display-excellent writing, an interesting scenario, and terrific pacing. Fortunately, Sandford comes up with an ending that makes it all but certain that his fans will meet her again. The well-peopled plot, involving a hot car ring, an ex-nun who smuggles cancer drugs over the Canadian border, and the usual internecine wranglings between the FBI, the local cops, and Davenport, races to a satisfying denouement, but this time it's a little girl with a difficult past and an uncertain future who lingers in the reader's mind. Lucas has a new wife, a new baby, and a new job as a political troubleshooter for his old boss Rose Marie Roux, but the blunt-spoken Davenport's instructions to hush the racially charged implications of what looks suspiciously like a lynching won't deter him from whoever left Warr and Cash twisting in the wind. When 12-year-old muskrat trapper Letty West stumbles on the naked bodies of Jane Warr and Deon Cash, deep in the snowy woods of northern Minnesota, it's more than another bizarre episode in her already unusual life, as Lucas Davenport discovers in this new outing in Sandford's popular series featuring the midwestern lawman who moonlights as a computer game designer. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. John Sandford is the author of twenty-four Prey novels the Virgil Flowers novels, most recently Storm Front and six other books. ![]() There is worse to come - much, much worse. "Lynching" is the word that everybody's trying not to say, but as Lucas begins to discover, in fact the murders are not what they appear to be, and they are not the end of it. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay - and he's waiting for the bill. In addition, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him he doesn't mind being a family man. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating for him a special troubleshooter job for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. In Naked Prey, John Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes.
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