Wicked Prey : #19 / Lucas Davenport
Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23-
Wicked Prey : #19 / Lucas Davenport John Sandford. - 402 pages 24 cm. - Lucas Davenport, 19 .
The 2008 Republican convention serves as the backdrop for bestseller Sandford's amped-up, ultra-violent 19th thriller to feature Lucas Davenport of the Minneapolis Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (after Phantom Prey). An assassination plot aimed at John McCain turns out to be just a sidebar to another criminal operationextremely slick thieves have come to the twin cities to rob Republican political operatives loaded down with millions of dollars of street money, illegal handouts for low-level campaign workers. Mastermind Rosie Cruz handles the gang's complicated planning, while gangster Brutus Cohn does the robbery and killing aided by a couple of lesser thugs. A subplot involving Davenport's teenage ward, Letty West, who's provided interesting complications in the series, establishes her as a brave and intrepid investigator. A slam-bang shootout climax proves that Davenport still has what it takes when it comes to guts and gunplay.
9780399155673
2009008105
Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character)--Fiction
Private investigators--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Fiction
Minneapolis (Minn.)--Fiction
Mystery fiction.
PS3569.A516 / W53 2009
813/.54
Wicked Prey : #19 / Lucas Davenport John Sandford. - 402 pages 24 cm. - Lucas Davenport, 19 .
The 2008 Republican convention serves as the backdrop for bestseller Sandford's amped-up, ultra-violent 19th thriller to feature Lucas Davenport of the Minneapolis Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (after Phantom Prey). An assassination plot aimed at John McCain turns out to be just a sidebar to another criminal operationextremely slick thieves have come to the twin cities to rob Republican political operatives loaded down with millions of dollars of street money, illegal handouts for low-level campaign workers. Mastermind Rosie Cruz handles the gang's complicated planning, while gangster Brutus Cohn does the robbery and killing aided by a couple of lesser thugs. A subplot involving Davenport's teenage ward, Letty West, who's provided interesting complications in the series, establishes her as a brave and intrepid investigator. A slam-bang shootout climax proves that Davenport still has what it takes when it comes to guts and gunplay.
9780399155673
2009008105
Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character)--Fiction
Private investigators--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Fiction
Minneapolis (Minn.)--Fiction
Mystery fiction.
PS3569.A516 / W53 2009
813/.54