Righteous Prey (Lucas Davenport #32, Virgil Flowers #14)
John Sandford
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in this stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. “We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media …though their motives may not be entirely pure. After The Five strike again in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full--the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers.
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My hatred for The Investigator might have had something to do with it, but I realized that all of these books, with Virgil and Lucas, are basically the same. There's only so many ways you can solve a crime, and the crimes being so different was what had drawn me initially. But now that Lucas works for the government and is best buds with governors and senators and gets whatever he wants even without asking, it's boring. It doesn't hold the same appeal to me as the earlier books did.
There isn't anything inherently wrong with Righteous Prey itself that made me want to read anything else but this, it's more the author that I'm tired of. I had been hoping I would be able to get through this book because the premise is really interesting and honestly something I get behind, which is also why Shadow Prey is one of my favorite Lucas books. I'm just over reading John Sandford's books, for right now at least. I might come back later and actually finish this, but it would definitely be something I'd borrow from the library the second time around.
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