{"id":8815,"date":"2025-06-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8815"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:00:50","slug":"lethal-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/lethal-prey\/","title":{"rendered":"LETHAL PREY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently read John Sandford\u2019s newest novel, \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FhlUww\" target=\"_blank\">Lethal Prey<\/a>,\u201d while taking my turn in the passenger seat on a long drive.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m a bit conflicted with Sandford, because on the one hand over the series he\u2019s had armed citizens save life multiple times, including his adopted crime victim daughter Letty when she was a young kid. Over the course of various novels, that same Letty has evolved as a tough, smart character in her own right, now a Federal investigator, and by now she\u2019s killed more bad guys than capital punishment nationwide it seems.\u00a0\u00a0My friend Glenn Meyer, a retired psychology professor, has diagnosed the character as a sociopath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She could also be diagnosed as a hypocrite, because in the past Sandford has had her say that non-cops have no business with guns like AR15s.&nbsp;&nbsp;WTF?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d like to interview John Sandford sometime. 2A issues aside, though, that novelist is excellent with plot structure and character development, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s one of the few novelists I continue to read.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FhlUww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lethal Prey<\/a>\u201d focuses on two of his main characters, Lucas Davenport (now a US Marshal) and Virgil Flowers, an agent with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Their target is a particularly clever serial killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is perhaps the first Davenport novel where no shots are fired: the villain in question commits murder by other means. It\u2019s also the rare Sandford novel that ends in a cliff hanger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like it or not, a well-constructed read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read John Sandford\u2019s newest novel, \u201cLethal Prey,\u201d while taking my turn in the passenger seat on a long drive.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m a bit conflicted with Sandford, because on the one hand over the series he\u2019s had armed citizens save life multiple times, including his adopted crime victim daughter Letty when she was a young kid. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8826,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions\/8826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}