Lucas Davenport might have a new job, but the end result is the same. Certain chapters read like stories currently all over CNN and Fox News, and readers will no doubt see those parallels and likely wish real-life played out closer to how things go when Lucas Davenport is on the case. This time, he’s churned out a suspense-filled plot about a power struggle between two members of the Washington Elite. Sandford continues to work current events into his stories, giving them a timely feel.
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But as fans of Lucas Davenport know, killing a seasoned pro like Lucas isn’t easy - especially once he has an old enemy like Taryn Grant in his crosshairs. Grant, meanwhile, deploys her henchman to take Lucas out of play, with strict orders to kill him if all else fails. Before he climbs into the ring for round two, he wants Lucas Davenport in his corner.ĭavenport eventually agrees to investigate things, even after local police rule it a single-car accident. Porter Smalls has already had one go-around with Grant, and it ended very badly for him. Since then, she’s won a narrow senate race, which Grant views as little more than a stepping stone to the Oval Office. Sandford’s longtime readers will remember Grant, the beautiful, rich sociopath who was already plotting out her pathway to the presidency as far back as Silken Prey (2013), when she was first introduced. Porter reaches out to Davenport because he’s convinced that the wreck was part of an assassination attempt ordered by Taryn Grant. However, his political consultant and secret lover, Cecily Whitehead, wasn’t so fortunate. After a horrific crash, Porter managed to walk away relatively unharmed.
Marshall, Lucas Davenport is contacted by Senator Porter Smalls, who was run off the road on his way back to Washington from a quick stay in his West Virginia cabin. Still adjusting to his new role as a U.S. It’s like Sanford’s All-Stars, assembled in one fast-paced, entertaining read.In Twisted Prey, the 28th book in John Sandford’s #1 bestselling franchise (following Golden Prey, 2017), Lucas Davenport locks horns with an old nemesis who now has more power than ever before.
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Sandford’s fans will also recognize two lead characters from yet another series playing integral roles here. His colleagues are amusing, too, each with a distinct personality, especially Virgil Flowers, the long-haired, cowboy-boot-wearing agent who has his own series of novels when not helping Davenport solve cases. Davenport is a winning character, a smart investigator with a stable home life and dry sense of humor. Sandford’s sharp, lean writing makes even politics seem interesting, and though this is the twenty-third in the Prey series, readers should have no problem jumping right in. Trouble is, he has no proof, and Grant’s bodyguards are a pair of former special ops guys-trained killers, they’re proud to admit-prepared to eliminate anyone getting in the way of Grant’s ambition. Lucas suspects Tubbs was working for the beautiful, young, and rich Taryn Grant, the opposing candidate in the senate race, and planted the porn as a smear tactic.
No one has seen Tubbs since the day the child porn was discovered, and he’s soon presumed dead by Lucas and his colleagues at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Lucas’s investigation leads him to the disappearance of a political fixer named Bobby Tubbs, known for his dirty tricks. John Sandford’s Silken Prey finds Minnesota law enforcer Lucas Davenport entangled in deadly political machinations, when the governor asks him to clear the name of a state senator caught with child pornography on his computer only days before the election.
This review originally appeared in Shelf Awareness for Readers, and is reprinted here with permission.
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