The United States Marshals went to pick up Clayton Deese after he
failed to show up for trial. Everyone knows Clayton Deese did the crime he is
wanted for and if it was not for bureaucratic issues they would not already be
at least three days behind me. His ankle
monitor went dark at about the same time that he failed to show up for court.
No doubt he has left his home in a rural area of Louisiana. Still, Marshals Rae
Givens and Bob Matees and F. B. I. Agent Tremanty have to raid the house Deese
was living in to make sure he really left. If he is gone, a manhunt will begin
as they need to apprehend this guy, not only for what they know he did, but
because he is a link to a far bigger target.
When
law enforcement hits the house, it is clear that Deese is long gone and is
never coming back. The house sits on a large piece of land that has a swamp
like area outback that is thickly wooded with at least one trail back into the
woods. A trail that clearly gets frequent use. A trail that goes quite a
distance back in where there is thick ground cover and clearly more open areas
that could be more than one shallow grave. Maybe many graves.
What is found means US Marshal Lucas Davenport is soon on the way
to help track down the missing Clayton Deese. A hunt for a contract killer who
occasionally indulges in a taste for human flesh. A contract killer who happens
to be in close contact with some other folks in another part of the country that
also need to be stopped as soon as possible.
The latest in a long line of thrillers by John Sandford, Neon
Prey, is another good one. As true with earlier books in the Lucas
Davenport series in recent years, the bad guys and girls are known to
the reader from their first introduction. Unlike the way it was when this
series started when there was a complexity to the reads and there was a solid
mystery, there is no mystery at all here expect for the fact Law Enforcement
does not know from the start just how bad Clayton Deese is or the identities of
some other folks who also need to be stopped. This book is a straight action
read where the pace is fast, chapters are short, descriptions of locations are
kept to a minimum, and the clock to prevent more carnage is always ticking. For
writers, this read, as has the last several in the series, fits the old adage ascribed
to Elmore Leonard about leaving out the parts that readers tend to skip.
Pure escapism, Neon Prey, is another good one in
the Lucas Davenport Series.
Neon Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel
John Sandford
Random House Large Print
April 2019
ISBN#978-1-9848-8283-7
Paperback (also available in hardback, audio, and digital formats)
480 Pages (461 pages are the actual story)
$31.00
Material
supplied by the good folks of the Dallas Public Library System.
Kevin
R. Tipple ©2019
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