![]() Simultaneously, Weather, Lucas’s wife, ropes Lucas into solving the murder of her friend’s daughter, Frances Austin. Siggy escapes police custody at a Target, and Lucas and crew are keeping an eye on his wife for signs of Siggy’s imminent return. In Sandford’s latest novel to be published in paperback, Phantom Prey, Lucas Davenport and his crew are on a stakeout trying to catch druglord Siggy Toms. ![]() He’s capable of piecing puzzles together long before other officers, but not so quickly that we doubt his humanity-and thus his vulnerability. Smart and sly, he stops at nothing to achieve his goals. A ruggedly good-looking college-hockey-player-turned-detective-turned-wealthy-detective, Davenport is ruthless in his pursuit of his prey: the criminals who pollute his cities. ![]() ![]() While their humanity makes them entertaining and at times unlikable, they solve crimes and implement a form of justice that feels more satisfying (albeit disturbing) than traditional American heroes. Far less moral than Superman, Lucas and his team of Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) agents are equally diligent yet far funnier and more human than those characters. In John Sandford’s Prey novels, which paint the Twin Cities as dark as Gotham City, the noble but fault-ridden hero Lucas Davenport leads his own justice league of crackpot superheroes to rescue the victims of outrageous crimes. ![]()
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