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Golden Prey by John Sandford
Lucas Davenport- Prey series Book #27
4.5 Stars
From The Book:
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.
My Thoughts:
27 books and the character of Lucas Davenport continues to get better and better. This is one character that truly has grown and matured throughout the 28 years that Sanford has been writing this series. It appears there is no limit to this author's ability to keep new breath and blood flowing into his Lucas Davenport series.
We find our hero taking on his first case as a U.S. Marshall as he hunts for a man that robbed more than a million dollars from a drug cartel that...surprise, surprise...wants their money back and will go to the most unimaginable heights to get it. Lucas takes this on with his usual clever, suspenseful and even sometimes funny manner. This is an excellent addition to the Prey series.
