When an accident is no accident, it can be hard to prove! Forced off
the road by an unseen vehicle and seeing a good friend killed, Senator
Porter Smalls knows just who is just the right investigator to prove his
version of events, even if the cops all think otherwise.
Knocked out of the U.S. Senate two and one-half years earlier by the
powerful and deadly U.S. Senator Taryn Grant, Smalls feels deep in his
blood that somehow Grant is behind this latest assassination attack. He
is glad the citizens in Minnesota believe in him and voted Smalls back
in as Senator after losing the previous election. The psychopath Grant
had been doing her mischief before, but now is even more powerful as
she now has a seat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and can
access even more information than before. U.S. Marshall Lucas
Davenport believes Smalls is right on the money too as he had dealings
with Grant before. Yet, how can he prove this when there is no
evidence?
Bestselling author John Sandford has created a very compelling look at
the ugliness of political corruption in TWISTED PREY, his 28th mystery in his Prey series. While the series
may be getting a little long in the tooth for some readers, those who
like Lucas Davenport like him a lot and, like me, are sure to be pleased
with this latest installment. Lucas is a little older and feels pain a little
longer, but the rich and action-loving Lucas is still as droll and sharp-
witted as in previous books in the series.
While TWISTED PREY can also
easily be enjoyed as a standalone mystery, Sandford fans will be thrilled
with the return of other favourite characters, such as Lucas' wife
Weather, his daughter Letty, and Bob and Rae. Davenport's nemesis,
Senator Taryn Grant also was previously introduced in SILKEN PREY.
With his background as a journalist and a good eye for painting,
Sandford has a very vivid and high impact style. As he moves the
development of the plot between fast-paced and suspenseful action to
more research-oriented work to what is needed to bring this case to
justice while exposing the political corruption of Senator Grant.
Warning: TWISTED PREY is a very
hard novel to put down once you start turning the pages! Great summer
or any time reading!
Lucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before.
A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for
the U.S. Senate, where Lucas had predicted she'd fit
right in. He was also convinced that she'd been
responsible for three murders, though he'd never been
able to prove it. Once a psychopath had gotten that kind
of rush, though, he or she often needed another fix, so
he figured he might be seeing her again.
He was right. A federal marshal now, with a very wide
scope of investigation, he's heard rumors that Grant has
found her seat on the Senate intelligence committee, and
the contacts she's made from it, to be very...useful.
Pinning those rumors down was likely to be just as
difficult as before, and considerably more dangerous.
But they had unfinished business, he and Grant. One way
or the other, he was going to see it through to the end.
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