Phogbound's review of Heat Lightning
by John Sandford
It's that fuckin' Flowers again. And am I glad! Virgil Flowers' debut in Dark of the Night was a terrific read and, so far, this looks to equally terrific. As Lucas Davenport of the Prey series gets more and more entangled in politics and home life, we have Virgil Flowers to look to.
Unconventional, impulsive and border-line brilliant, Flowers has become Davenport's lead dog for cases that promise to go south in a heartbeat. Clad in his signature cowboy boots and band t-shirts with blonde hair down to his shoulders, Flowers is a lightning rod of a detective and the reader gets to ride along in his pickup as he races across Minnesota to run the bad guys down while hopefully getting to do a little fishing. In fact, Davenport has an annoying habit of asking Flowers if he is towing his boat to a investigation.
Flowers, though, does the one thing that will save him from the rigors of state bureaucracy. He solves the bad cases and he solves them quickly. The crim...more
Unconventional, impulsive and border-line brilliant, Flowers has become Davenport's lead dog for cases that promise to go south in a heartbeat. Clad in his signature cowboy boots and band t-shirts with blonde hair down to his shoulders, Flowers is a lightning rod of a detective and the reader gets to ride along in his pickup as he races across Minnesota to run the bad guys down while hopefully getting to do a little fishing. In fact, Davenport has an annoying habit of asking Flowers if he is towing his boat to a investigation.
Flowers, though, does the one thing that will save him from the rigors of state bureaucracy. He solves the bad cases and he solves them quickly. The crim...more
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