Okay, here’s something weighing on my mind - is it just me or are Jenkins and Shrake almost new characters in each novel? Each story we learn something new about them that alters the way we think of these semi-thuggish cops. I love the way she always has Lucas’ back. She plays a heavy part in this novel that some folks will believe and some won’t. I like Letty and I’d like to see her have her own series. Lucas would not be who he is without his home life but I am a reader who maintains we can get hints of that but see it mostly off screen. He’s his own unique character and really shines in this novel however, brief his appearances. Sandford said that he started writing Flowers because Lucas was getting older. I love the insertion of Flowers into the more recent books.
He has everyone’s favorite guy, Virgil Flowers, looking for the people who attacked him. Lucas is more passionate about the secondary case, which is his own mugging. He’s an agent with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension so just inserts himself into what interests him and this case, in its brutality, does. I would even go as far to say that he was passive in his pursuit of the case in the first part of this book.ĭon’t get me wrong, this wasn’t his case but in recent novels, it never really is his case. He’s now a family man with a wife and children to think about before he dives headfirst into solving a crime. He’s grown from the careless cop we meet in Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport) who would kill the bad guy rather than take his chance with the justice system to a guy who methodically plans a strategy.
Lucas has evolved, as is natural with a character that’s been around as long as he has. I’ve read every single one, and there are those that I like less but none that I like not at all. Lucas must follow the trail to discover why the family was killed and to stop the rapid pile of bodies landing on the door of the case. The family has a lot of money going out that seems to not have an origin. While he heals, Lucas is caught up in a case of a family brutally murdered.
In Stolen Prey by John Sandford, Lucas Davenport returns in the twenty-second novel Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport) in the series by John Sandford.