![]() Sandford's primary strategy is to write in scenes. When they got home, Letty said, “Whoa, that cast’s the size of-” Lucas tended to compare the size of almost anything, either large or small, to his dick. “Never mind what it’s the size of,” Weather said. The line looked like somebody had dropped a white hair on the screen. ![]() “Yeah, it’s clear.” She pointed at a line on a wrist bone. Davenport has suffered a broken wrist in the mugging and they're looking at an x-ray: In this extract, Weather is his wife and Letty his adopted daughter. It's conversational and chatty, and he's able to move rapidly between Davenport's consciousness and that of other characters - usually the villains. This storyline acts as a comic counterpoint to the central plot, which deals with a mass murder of a wealthy family that seems to be involved in money-laundering - though how the financial trail works takes a while to puzzle out. The book begins with Davenport being mugged, so one storyline deals with how he sets Virgil Flowers on their trail and what happens as he hunts the muggers down. In Stolen Prey, a number of plot lines are set running. What's more, Sandford shows how cops talk to each other - exchanging information, building up their view of the case, sniping at each other or just bantering. And he uses all of these to provide him with information that he synthesizes to arrive at his deductions and leaps of imagination. He has a researcher, he has street-level snitches, he has friends in High Places. Davenport is extremely bright and intuitive, but Sandford shows time and again how he uses police resources to find the bad guys. The Prey books are masterly expositions of how crimes get solved through police procedure. All of the books have 'Prey' in the title, which distinguishes them from his other series about Kidd, a software expert and thief, and about Virgil Flowers, an investigator who actually works for Lucas Davenport but largely operates on his own. ![]() Stolen Prey is John Sandford's 22nd book about Lucas Davenport, an investigator with Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
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