Masked Prey
Sandford's new Prey book is especially appropriate these days with Covid19 demonstrations supposedly organized by gun rights groups and sometimes violent and destructive demonstrations in response to the George Floyd police abuse incident.
Lucas is called in by the FBI to ferret out those behind a web site called 1919, which means SS. There are pictures of the children of congressmen and women alongside extreme anti-government articles. The FBI thinks it's a call to murder congressional children to barter votes on radical issues. Oh yes, there's a social media loving daughter of a democratic senator involved. She discovered he site while looking to see how her brand is circulating on the Web.
Eventually Lucas calls in Bob and Rae, his new partners and fellow US marshals. Lucas talks to an “expert” on potentially violent militia and right wing groups who may be involved. They are surprisingly helpful. You'd think they were essentially good hearted underneath the dangerous exteriors.
Lucas is working with FBI Special Agent Chase. She's meant to keep a damper on the sometimes off-the-record Davenport. Like that's going to work.
We also get a look at the man who plots and carries out a murder influenced by 1919. He thought it was real. At first he sent out letters to three others who might want to do his dirty work for him. It's surprising how normal this guy is in his every day profession. He's a surveyor. Anyway the letters help find him. And that loose cannon Lucas isn't about to let him get away with murdering kids.
The ending kind of fizzles. The reader is expecting some kind of catastrophic denouement, which doesn't happen. After all, in the last Prey novel, Lucas was shot.
Lucas is called in by the FBI to ferret out those behind a web site called 1919, which means SS. There are pictures of the children of congressmen and women alongside extreme anti-government articles. The FBI thinks it's a call to murder congressional children to barter votes on radical issues. Oh yes, there's a social media loving daughter of a democratic senator involved. She discovered he site while looking to see how her brand is circulating on the Web.
Eventually Lucas calls in Bob and Rae, his new partners and fellow US marshals. Lucas talks to an “expert” on potentially violent militia and right wing groups who may be involved. They are surprisingly helpful. You'd think they were essentially good hearted underneath the dangerous exteriors.
Lucas is working with FBI Special Agent Chase. She's meant to keep a damper on the sometimes off-the-record Davenport. Like that's going to work.
We also get a look at the man who plots and carries out a murder influenced by 1919. He thought it was real. At first he sent out letters to three others who might want to do his dirty work for him. It's surprising how normal this guy is in his every day profession. He's a surveyor. Anyway the letters help find him. And that loose cannon Lucas isn't about to let him get away with murdering kids.
The ending kind of fizzles. The reader is expecting some kind of catastrophic denouement, which doesn't happen. After all, in the last Prey novel, Lucas was shot.
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