{"id":12395,"date":"2019-04-29T16:24:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12395"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:24:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:24:46","slug":"neon-prey-by-john-sandford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12395","title":{"rendered":"‘Neon Prey, by John Sandford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Another year,<\/strong> another John Sandford Prey <\/em>novel (this one\u2019s number 29). In Neon Prey<\/a><\/em>, hero Lucas Davenport, still living in St. Paul and now operating as a US Marshal, gets called to a bizarre crime scene in Louisiana. Cops raided a hit man\u2019s house, and discovered a number of bodies buried in the adjacent swamp \u2013 and those bodies show signs of being butchered. This killer is a cannibal. Lucas and his two regular partners, marshals Bob Matees and Rae Givens (double gags there \u2013 \u201cBob and Rae\u201d for old radio fans, plus a hat tip to Elmore Leonard) join the hunt for this guy. They trace him as he hooks up with his brother, a home invasion expert, and members of his gang in Las Vegas. The clues are few and far between, but the cannibal proves no asset to his brothers\u2019 gang, and in the end it will be every person for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author Sandford offers the usual pleasures of a Prey <\/em>book here \u2013 the familiar, interesting hero, plus a lot of politically incorrect cop humor. But I have to say that if this had been the first book in the series I\u2019d read, I probably wouldn\u2019t read another. I found the ending highly unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, my verdict is this: If you\u2019re a fan of the series, you\u2019ll probably enjoy Neon Prey<\/em>, at least up to a point. If you\u2019re not, I really don\u2019t recommend it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cautions for language, violence, and very disturbing scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another year, another John Sandford Prey novel (this one\u2019s number 29). In Neon Prey, hero Lucas Davenport, still living in St. Paul and now operating as a US Marshal, gets called to a bizarre crime scene in Louisiana. Cops raided a hit man\u2019s house, and discovered a number of bodies buried in the adjacent swamp … Continue reading ‘Neon Prey, by John Sandford<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[1482,1720,1993],"class_list":["post-12395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-john-sandford","tag-lucas-davenport","tag-neon-prey"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}