Marshal Lucas Davenport is called in by his patrons in the Senate, who have their own interests in the case. Unfortunately, their investigations hit a brick wall, and U.S.
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Given that the case involves the murder of federal officers on the job, the FBI has first crack at it. An off-duty Guardsman noticed that the boat had suddenly stopped in open water to pick up a wetsuited diver, so he reported the incident and kept a wary eye on the boat from a distance, never imagining that the responding officers would be gunned down before his very eyes. Lucas is the one called in first when three members of the Coast Guard are gunned down while intercepting a suspicious boat. The first official Lucas Davenport/Virgil Flowers crossover novel finds our two heroes only too happy to escape the Minnesota cold for the Florida heat-even if it is due to the need to solve a federal crime. Things get ugly real fast, and neither the cartel killers nor the holdup men give a damn about whose lives Davenport might have saved to them, he’s just another large target.įilled with his trademark razor-sharp plotting and some of the best characters in suspense fiction, Golden Prey is further reason why “Sandford has always been at the top of any list of great mystery writers” (The Huffington Post).Ocean Prey by John Sandford is the 31st book in the Prey series, where fan-favorite heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case. Davenport takes the case, which quickly spirals out of control, as cartel assassins, including a torturer known as the “Queen of home-improvement tools” compete with Davenport to find the Dixie Hicks shooters who knocked over the counting house.
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A Biloxi, Mississippi, drug-cartel counting house gets robbed, and suitcases full of cash disappear, leaving behind five bodies, including that of a six-year-old girl. He gets to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they lead him.Īnd where they’ve led him this time is into real trouble. Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but for the U.S. The man was smart and he didn’t mind killing people. marshal takes him into unexplored territory in this thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey series. With nowhere else to turn, influential Senators decide to call in someone who can operate outside the FBI’s constraints: Lucas Davenport. The anonymous photographer can’t be pinned down to one location or IP address, and more importantly, at least to the paper-processing bureaucrats, no crime has actually been committed. It’s obviously alarming–is there an unstable extremist tracking the loved ones of powerful politicians with deadly intent? But when the FBI is called in, there isn’t much the feds can do. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of radical groups. of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford. Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers. And they soon have their hands full–the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, The Five are virtually untraceable.
The Five soon become the most popular figures on social media, a modern-day Batman…though their motives may not be entirely pure.Īfter a woman is murdered in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. They target the worst of society-rapists, murderers, and thieves-and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. “We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
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