Righteous Prey: A Lucas Davenport & Virgil Flowers thriller

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Overall, for me the good things about Davenport and Flowers made the book worth reading, but they didn’t fully outweigh the weak vigilante team opposing them. My guess is that most Sanford fans will find this an easy and fun read, and I wouldn’t necessarily disa Writing a review of a book by an author such as Sandford is somewhat meaningless. He is a favorite and I have read everything he has written. We all have our favorite authors where we hunger for their next book. Sandford has been writing these books for over 30 years. This one has the same fast-paced story and interesting characters as in all the previous books. In 1978, he left the Herald to work as a reporter and columnist at St. Paul Pioneer Press, a job he stayed in for twelve years.

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Davenport begins the series as a detective with the Minnesota Police Department. Still, when a scandal forces him to resign, he becomes a government deputy chief in charge of his intelligence unit. Righteous Prey by John Sandford, the pen name for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp, is the thirty-second book in the Prey novels series featuring Lucas Davenport. Besides the Prey novels, Sandford is the author of the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, and six other books.Sandford’s books are always enjoyable because they are mostly based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota where I have lived for almost all my life. We read about local locations. In this case Lucas and Virgil have breakfast at a well-known delicatessen in St Paul. I was planning on going there to have breakfast while I wrote this review. I wanted to ask them if I could sit in the same booth as Lucas and Virgil did. John Sandford is an excellent writer. In all thirty-two books of the Prey series, he has spun tales like no one else. His iconic characters--Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers--have changed and grown over time--as you'd expect--which has kept this series always at the top of my read list.

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A complimentary copy was provided by G.P. Putnam's Sons via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The story is filled with John Sandford's trademark dark humor. There is plenty of violence. The victims are not likeable ... a violent street person, a corrupt right wing congressman, a woman who got richer by putting people out of work. No one you can feel any sympathy for. The Five are getting a lot of attention and are gaining popularity. Soon there will be copycats. Someone decides a politician or businessperson needs to be eliminated.

Virgil is writing a mystery novel and so a couple of mystery writers are mentioned: John D. MacDonald, C.J.Box and Carl Hiaasen. Sandford also makes a veiled reference to another Twin Cities mystery writer that most people will identify as him. Virgil mentions that the cop in those mysteries never has to do paperwork. 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. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers who are very bored… and very rich. 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 soon become the most popular figures on social media, a modern-day Batman…though their motives may not be entirely pure. However, I’m still not sold on this idea of Sandford teaming up his two biggest characters and merging what used to be two books a year into one. I know the man has certainly earned a rest at this point, but it seems like splitting time between Lucas and Virgil does something to the flow of the story so that it doesn’t hum with quite the same energy that their solo books do. This book tells the story of a vigilante group calling itself "The Five". They are bound and determined to wipe out what they consider the worst of society- rapists, murderers, and thieves. Oh, and they are Bitcoin billionaires! Can Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport stop this smart and carefully choreographed group, when the group has no apparent direct connection to the victims??

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Everyone of them has made plans to bug out in case they get caught except her. Our noses are rubbed in this every time one of them gives her cash from their bug-out kit. She set up a false identity, moved out of her house, & yet made no provisions for running. I can't believe it. Righteous Prey is] well-paced from the start, and ramps up the tension (and the body count) as the lawmen draw closer to their prey.”– Wall Street Journal Virgil Flowers, an agent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, receives an early morning call summoning him to the scene. On arrival he spots a big lump leaning against an SUV, it’s his ex-boss Lucas Davenport. These days Lucas is a U.S. Marshal with political connections and he’s been directed to add his practical skills and renowned crime solving nous to the mix. But there’s very little to go on, the perpetrators seem to be very adept at leaving nothing behind that will aid those looking to identify them. Where will this group strike next and given how little is known about them how can they possibly be stopped? Otherwise it was a great read, I especially love Lucas and Virgil’s relationship, and when they had to hold hands and pretend to be gay – well that just made my heart leap.💝 Since those early days, John Sandford has become a household name, thanks to his three hugely successful crime thriller series and standalone novels.The plot of Righteous Prey was gripping and for the most part, moved along at a fast pace. Much of the dialogue was humorous and entertaining. The last part of the book definitely had me biting my nails!! I love quirky characters and there was no shortage of them in this book. In my opinion, Righteous Prey can be read as a stand-alone. In 2006, John Sandofrod penned the popular short story Lucy Had a List, which tells the chilling tale of a grammar-obsessed golf teacher and her very important list. There are some political matters mentioned here. Although he doesn’t state any anti-Trump opinion there are references to people who are anti-Trump. Also at the end of the book Weather, the wife of Lucas Davenport, and Frankie, the wife of Virgil Flowers, are interviewed by the press. When one of these ‘righteous’ killings takes place in Davenport and Flowers jurisdiction they are brought in on the hunt to try and stop the madness.