Golden Prey (Lucas Davenport, #27) by John Sandford Series: Lucas Davenport #27
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons on April 25th 2017
Genres: Action Thriller
Pages: 416
Format: eBook
Source: NetGalley & Penguin Group Putnam
The man was smart and he didn’t mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport’s first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
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. Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they lead him.
And where they’ve led him this time is into real trouble. 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. 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. 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.
**Special thanks to NetGalley & Penguin Group Putnam for supplying my copy of this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.**
Gold is sometimes a good way to keep money, but not in all cases. In Golden Prey, they needed cash! Golden Prey is the 27th installment in the amazing Lucas Davenport series by John Sandford. And yesss! Lucas Davenport is back in a very thrilling adventure!
Garvin Poole & Sturgill Darling are two very dangerous criminals, and they need cash. They rob the money of a drug cartel killing some of the cartel’s men and a 6 year old girl, the granddaughter of one of the men. They leave without trace. Poole had been convicted several times before but he managed to drop out of sight. No one could ever know where he was. And now after this terrible shooting, still no one can ever trace him.
Lucas Davenport is now a US Marshal. He gets the privilege of picking his cases and this armed robbery catches his eyes. He is after Poole and Darling and he won’t rest till he finds them. He has the mind and skills for such mission.
The Cartel are also after Poole and Darling. Two of their worst lethal criminals are following every trace to find Poole and Darling and get the money back. When it comes to the Cartel’s ways, a quick death can be the best wish for their enemies!
In a very thrilling mouse and cat action packed pursuit, both Davenport and the Cartel men are after Poole and Darling. They both have their ways and they are smart enough to do it. The point is: Can Lucas do it this time?
Golden Prey was such a good read. If I have to say it in just one word, smart will be the name for it. It was quite a smart pursuit. John Sandford respects the readers’ minds and wrote a thriller where all parties are smart enough. The ‘Good guys’ are not winning all the time. The ‘Good guys’ and the ‘bad guys’ are equally intelligent and capable. And though you expect the marshals to win the pursuit, you can’t imagine how Sandford would do it, and you keep wondering whether they will actually do it at the end. Or would it be the Cartel?
The plot was very well developed. When I started reading Golden Prey, I was overwhelmed with the characters. There were so many people in the plot where Sandford managed to link them perfectly building this network steadily in the readers mind.
Who wouldn’t love Davenport? Lucas is one of the most brilliant fictional characters. The amazing thing is how Sandford managed to build Davenport’s character over the years (and over the 27 installments). He is always evolving and moving on. I had to go back to Rules of Prey, the first installment in the series, to know Lucas better. I think what’s most lovable about him is that he is not the traditional ‘Good Cop’. I even read the author’s notes about this series. When John Sandford started this series in the nineties, he had planned to write a book where the readers would love the main character and get attached to him. I think this is exactly what he had successfully done over the years.
I truly loved Golden Prey. I am also reading the previous installments one at a time.
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