![]() ![]() When things get hot in Los Angeles, a smart girlfriend of one of the mobsters power-packs, grabbing money first, then clothes, shoes, birth-control pills, sunglasses, “and a bunch of bras and underpants from Victoria’s Secret,” tossing it all in the back of her boyfriend’s Cadillac Escalade before taking off for Sin City. Even the innocents have a flair for drama. Vegas is a great place for Sandford’s flamboyant hustlers, grifters, thieves and killers. At one point, when the men he is pursuing are low on cash (“blow and hookers and casinos”) they plan one last big robbery of a rich guy named Harrelson, chosen in large part because his ride is a taxi-yellow Porsche. So it makes sense that he should thrive on complicated cross-country manhunts involving colorful characters driving eye-catching automobiles. A deputy United States marshal who’s apparently free to choose his own cases, he backed into law enforcement after making a pile of money designing computer games. He shines, in fact, when writing about partially eaten corpses rotting in the Louisiana marshes, bullet-riddled bodies baking in the Las Vegas desert, and one especially bloody shootout with the main bad guy blasting into “a virtual wall of humanity” in a crowded Vegas shopping mall.ĭavenport is an inspired creation. Sandford has never been one to shrink from violence and until that point, he’d been his usual entertaining self in this hard-core adventure. So it wasn’t until the end of John Sandford’s new Lucas Davenport novel, NEON PREY (Putnam, $29), when that cannibal looks into the “cold black eyes of a Crotalus scutulatus,” that I felt well and truly revolted. Location(s) referenced in Silken Prey: Minneapolis/St.I’m down with cannibals. Selected reviews of other mysteries by this author … Review Copyright © 2013 - Hidden Staircase Mystery Books - All Rights Reserved Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Silken Prey.Īcknowledgment: Penguin Group provided a copy of Silken Prey for this review. Filled with credible action sequences and a smartly crafted, if also rather complex, plot, this is one of the better books in the series to date. There are a great many characters involved, most of whom have a significant role to play at one point or another. Indeed, this isn't so much a who-, why-, or how-dunit as much as a "how is Davenport going to solve"-it story. ![]() The question for Davenport may seem simple to ask - How did the pornography get on Smalls's computer? - but it is exceptionally difficult to answer. Silken Prey is a very suspenseful entry in this long-running series. Their investigation brings Davenport face to face with far more than just political wrongdoing, including theft, blackmail, and murder. Davenport knows that tracking the pornography back to Grant is going to be a difficult task at best, so he calls on fellow BCA officer Virgil Flowers, computer genius ICE ("Ingrid Caroline Eccols"), and Kidd, an artist and computer database expert. She clearly has the resources - and connections - to discredit Smalls. ![]() Smalls's opponent is billionaire Taryn Grant, an ambitious, ruthless Democratic newcomer, who will do almost anything to win. But it could all be a political stunt by his opponent, something Davenport strongly suspects may be the case, in Silken Prey, the 23rd mystery in this series by John Sandford. Review: Lucas Davenport, a detective with Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is asked by the Governor to investigate a claim that Republican Senator Porter Smalls, who is in a tight race for re-election, is in possession of child pornography, a claim that, if proved, would certainly derail his political career … and possibly by extension that of the Governor, too.
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