Tag: Lucas Davenport

New book release: ‘Toxic Prey’ by John Sandford

‘Toxic Prey’ is the thrilling new Lucas Davenport novel by John Sandford. Photo: Amazon

John Sandford is in the top 10 of my favorite authors. His crime fiction and mystery books are so engaging to read and I’ve read almost all of his Lucas Davenport novels. So naturally, I was pleased to hear that the next Prey novel, “Toxic Prey,” has just been released. Prepare yourself for another exciting Lucas Davenport mystery.

John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-three Prey novels; two Letty Davenport novels; four Kidd novels; twelve Virgil Flowers novels; three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook; and three other books. His latest thriller, “Toxic Prey” is the 34th Prey novel and has Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, teaming up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world. (Amazon, 2024)

“Toxic Prey” – Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is on shaky ground and the direct link to Earth’s death spiral; population levels are out of control and people have allowed disarray and disorder to run rampant. While most are concerned about deadly disease, Scott knows that it is truly humanity itself that will destroy Gaia. It’s only by removing the threat that the planet can continue to prosper, and luckily, Scott is just the right man for the job.

When Scott disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport is tasked with tracking down any and all leads. Scott’s connections to sensitive research into virus and pathogen spread has multiple national and international organizations on high alert, and his shockingly high clearance levels at various institutions, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, make him the last person they’d like to go missing. As the web around Scott becomes more tangled, Letty calls in her father, Lucas, to help her lead a group of specialists to find Scott as soon as possible. But as Letty and Lucas begin to uncover startling and disturbing connections between Scott and Gaia conspiracists, their worst fears are confirmed, and it quickly becomes a race to find him before the virus he created becomes the perfect weapon.

New book release: ‘Righteous Prey’ by John Sandford

‘Righteous Prey’ is John Sandford’s newest best-selling novel. Photo: Amazon

John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of thirty-one Prey novels; four Kidd novels; twelve Virgil Flowers novels; three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook; and three other books. His new book “Righteous Prey” is a Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers novel and this time they are going up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance. (Amazon, 2022)

“Righteous Prey” – “We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they have killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media though their motives may not be entirely pure. After The Five strike again in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate and they soon have their hands full. The killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers.

Excerpt available.

New release: ‘Golden Prey’ by John Sandford

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‘Golden Prey’ is the new Davenport novel by John Sandford. Photo: Barnes & Noble

John Sandford is the pseudonym for John Roswell Camp, a former journalist turned best-selling author of thriller novels, short stories and non-fiction books. His first two novels of the Kidd series were written under his real name but when he started the Prey series he published under John Sandford. He has written the Prey series, the Kidd series, the Virgil Flowers series and the Singular Menace series but the Prey series has proved the most popular. It features Lucas Davenport, a former detective with the Minneapolis Police Department who is known for his unorthodox and manipulative behavior as a detective. Throughout the series, he has also worked as a Deputy Chief, an investigator for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and later as a United States Marshall. The twenty-seventh Prey novel, “Golden Prey,” was released this month and Lucas Davenport is back in his first case as a U.S. Marshall which sends him into uncharted territory.

According to Amazon, in “Golden Prey” Davenport ends up in Biloxi, Mississippi where a drug cartel counting house has been robbed and suitcases full of cash have disappeared. Five bodies are left behind including one of a six-year-old girl and the case quickly spirals out of control. Things go from bad to worse as cartel assassins, including a torturer known as the “Queen of home-improvement tools” and Davenport get caught up in a race to find the Dixie Hicks shooters who hit the counting house. They do not care who Davenport is so he must solve the case before he ends up another victim of the cartel and the men who held up the counting house.