5/28/2023 0 Comments Silken prey book![]() ![]() ![]() Lucas didn’t recognize him, but recognized the type: a guy who knew where all the notional bodies were buried, a guy who could get the vice president on the telephone. Another man, heavier and older, was sitting in a leather chair facing Grant. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Silken Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Schiffer was lying on a couch, barefoot a couple of Taryn’s staff people, a young woman and a young man, were sitting on the floor, making a circle. Silken Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel - Ebook written by John Sandford. Grant was there, still dressed as she had been on the stage she was curled in an easy chair, with a drink in her hand, high heels on the floor beside her. You want to invite us in? She opened the door, and they stepped inside, and followed her to the living room. She took a long look at Del, and asked, Where’re Dannon and Carver? Dead, Lucas said. ![]() The door opened, and Green looked out: she was still fully dressed, including the jacket that covered her gun and the fashionable shoes that she could run in. I see you kept your French shoes nice and dry. We weren’t running so much as staggering around. You fall down out there? About four times. ![]() Del scratched his neck and looked at the yellow bug light and said, I feel like a bug. "THEY WALKED UP TO the front door, rang the bell. Nonetheless, it took courage for Sandford to delve into the sordid life behind the scenes of much of today’s politicking, and he made it sufficiently believable and sufficiently compelling to keep me along for the ride.8. In Silken Prey, he is but a means to an end and not a very vivid one, which is somewhat disappointing. Its the explosive new Lucas Davenport thriller from the 1 New York. I found hero Davenport to be somewhat less interesting than in Sandford’s earlier novels where we were still learning about this complex character. And one billionaire heiress so dangerous in so many ways. I especially liked the fact that Sandford left the ending deliberately unsatisfying as a way of reminding his readers that there are no easy solutions to the problem of political corruption, and that we cannot ever let down our guard when it comes to choosing who to hand the reins of power to. Sandford’s writing, as always, is smooth, clever, and fast-moving, and the plot of Silken Prey is an intricate one, full of political and social cross currents that beg comparison to the politics of today on both a small and large scale. The dirty tricks escalate rapidly to murder, as Davenport races to expose the conspiracy before the election. The governor of Minnesota, a Dem, is nonetheless friends with Smalls and brings Davenport in when Smalls’ office computer is discovered to have nasty child-porn on it just days before the election. The person she is trying to defeat is Porter Smalls, a personable good-ole-boy Republican right-winger who likes women a little too much and too obviously. Sandford cleverly chooses as his super-villain a smart, gorgeous and supremely wealthy young woman who is Democratic candidate for the Senate, and happens to have lots of political savvy, a narcissistic personality, and not a shred of a conscience when it comes to getting her way. Sandford starts this latest novel of his with the brutal murder of a political fixer, and escalates from there to a political conspiracy that has the potential to reach the White House some day if not stopped in its tracks. Political corruption, power lust and sociopaths are the lead characters in Silken Prey, and we the readers get to shiver in anticipation as the plot unfolds and we watch Sandford’s favorite cop Lucas Davenport struggle to find the bad guys when we know who they are from the get-go. If you like action and political thrillers, this is the book for you. ![]()
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