This the second John Sandford book I’ve read. I read Chosen Prey sometime in 2004 and although I remember nothing about it I must have liked it well enough since I went out a picked up Rules of Prey – the first book in the series. To me this seemed like a pretty standard suspense novel. Lucas Davenport is a cop who doesn’t particularly care for following the rules. If someone’s guilty Lucas will do whatever it takes to bring them to justice. The local police force have given Davenport his own unit and pretty much allowed him free run to work the local vice cases. Now a madman has started killing local dark haired young women and the chief wants Davenport on the case.
The best part of the book for me was Lucas Davenport. He is tough guy who will do whatever it takes to see justice served even if it means bending the rules a bit – or a lot. Add to that the fact that he’s a womanizer who geniunely cares about the women who share his bed and the fact that he creates video games in his spare time and you have a very well developed and interesting character. By the time you get to the end of the book you’re practically in love with him until you realize that you still no almost nothing about him.
The story moved along at pretty good pace. I found it slowed down in a few places but all in all I finished this book rather quickly. I didn’t find it particularly scary or suspenseful but I kept turning the pages because I wanted to find out how Davenport was finally going to catch this guy.
The weakest part of the book for me was the serial killer – considering how three dimensional Davenport is I was disappointed to find that the serial killer fell flat. He was just your standard run of the mill serial killer that you could find in any number of thriller novels.
All in all I really did enjoy this book. I will continue to read the series if only to find out more about Lucas Davenport.
Grade 7.5/10
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