By: John Sandford
Genres: Thriller Police Procedural | Mystery Police Procedural | Mystery
Posted: April 13, 2015
GATHERING PREY is the latest in the very long-running Lucas Davenport series, and readers new to the series can dive ahead safely: Mr. Sandford provides solid yet concise background on Lucas and his family so that it all seems familiar right from the start. Lucas Davenport is a no- nonsense cop, he's middle-aged, has a family; he's a bit of throwback to an age of more realistic policemen, and the daily grind of police work.
GATHERING PREY is fast-paced, very straightforward; there are no superfluous embellishments: Lucas is on the hunt for a ruthless killer who, it turns out, is awfully clever at not being found. GATHERING PREY leads Lucas on a cross-country chase as the bodies pile up; we are also privy to the dastardly villain's machinations. GATHERING PREY is a chilling read because some things almost feel too real for comfort.
Book Summary
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winner John Sandford.
They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes—they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them.
Lucas Davenport’s adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she’d befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody’s killing her friends, she’s afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She’s hiding out in North Dakota, and she doesn’t know what to do.
Letty tells Lucas she’s going to get her, and, though he suspects Letty’s getting played, he volunteers to go with her. When he hears the woman’s story, though, he begins to think there’s something in it. Little does he know. In the days to come, he will embark upon an odyssey through a subculture unlike any he has ever seen, a trip that will not only put the two of them in danger—but just may change the course of his life.
by: John Sandford
Putnam
May 1, 2015
On Sale: April 28, 2015
Featuring: Letty Davenport; Lucas Davenport
416 pages
ISBN: 0399168796
EAN: 9780399168796
Kindle: B00O2BKKUS
Hardcover / e-Book