{"id":2675,"date":"2020-07-11T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2020-07-11T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:21:48","slug":"a-dangerous-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"A dangerous trap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Moyer reviews the latest John Sandford\u00a0Prey<\/em> novel starring Lucas Davenport. If you like what he’s describing, and haven’t yet encountered this series, you have some reading to do. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer<\/p>\n

MASKED PREY. By John Sandford. G.P. Putnam. 416 pages. $29.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Over the course of 29 previous Prey<\/em> novels, John Sandford has revealed a few things about Marshall Lucas Davenport. He operates outside of most federal agencies, at the discretion of a few powerful men. He can be collaborative and witty, especially with his cohorts Bob and Rae. He has a panoply of polo shirts, all varying colors, and at least a couple of handmade suits. He collects guns, both legal and illegal. Most of all, however, he is a hunter. \u201cI hunt,\u201d he tells a colleague. \u201cThat\u2019s what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this case, his Prey<\/em> is a group or person who has put up a website called 1919, neo-Nazi code for SS. It\u2019s\u00a0pictures of high-profile politicians\u2019 children, accompanied by rightwing screeds. It\u2019s an offering, daring someone to take action. No crime has been committed, the FBI can\u2019t do anything \u2014 here comes Lucas.<\/p>\n

He investigates a series of rightwing groups that could have been copied and pasted from the latest Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s website, most of them \u201canti-whatever.\u201d\u00a0 To the author\u2019s credit, he does not make these straw men to be blown down, but fleshed-out characters, giving body to some far-right thinking. His creations are characters, not caricatures. Davenport\u2019s instincts finally lead him to the source of the website. Next, he has to find out if anyone, a \u201clone wolf,\u201d has taken up the challenge.<\/p>\n

Of course they have, early on. That is part of the tension here, as Davenport turns his attention to his next Prey<\/em> \u2014a Jason Bourne fan who thinks \u201cThe country was being invaded by people of inferior cultures and inferior races. The real, vital white America was being submerged.\u201d \u00a0He\u2019s out there, but Davenport has no idea where. Proving once again how relentless and ruthless he can be, he baits a dangerous trap all by himself. Of course.<\/p>\n

Sandford is a master of taking the plot on unexpected turns, and Davenport\u00a0is just the one to follow them. Be assured that he will be back to hunt another Prey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Bob Moyer reviews the latest John Sandford\u00a0Prey novel starring Lucas Davenport. If you like what he’s describing, and haven’t yet encountered this series, you have some reading to do. Enjoy. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer MASKED PREY. By John Sandford. G.P. Putnam. 416 pages. $29. Over the course of 29 previous Prey novels, John Sandford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detective-fiction-mysteries","category-thriller-suspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}