He tracks down unsolved cases and can travel anywhere in the world.”Īnother character in the book who makes a cameo appearance is Virgil Flowers.
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Thanks to the Vice-President he becomes a free lance US Marshall and is able to just take cases of his choice. Maybe the current Governor will become Vice-President and the new Governor makes Lucas feel uncomfortable so he leaves his position. “I thought about what Davenport might do after he leaves the BAC. Sandford commented that he is pondering Davenport’s future since he is very dependent on the good graces of Minnesota Governor Elmer Henderson. Davenport is a cool headed investigative officer that is intelligent, sexy, a family man, someone who takes things to its limits and can connect the dots. He is more of a supporting character with the main characters being the hero, Lucas Davenport and the antagonist, Grant. Her opponent, Senator Porter Smalls is an old-school politician who has a clear agenda. I tried to balance readers going from admiring to hating her.” I gave her qualities you would want in a politician: tough, independent, and smart but she is also a killer. Sandford is hoping that readers will find “Taryn likeable. She is a new type of politician: smart, attractive, ambitious, and very wealthy. Grant has a narcissistic personality with an oversized ego, extravagant plans for her political future, and someone who wants one day to be the first woman elected President. Taryn Grant could give Machiavelli lessons with her ideas about the way the world should work through her use of money, ruthlessness, and desire. This message is emphasized with his powerful character development. He wrote the book to entertain but also to get his readers to think about politicians, how they have blind spots and are out of touch with the average working person as they live in their own Washington DC world. People are spending a large amount of money and there are no limitations on what they will do to get elected, so I just pushed that to its natural conclusion.” They have no respect for each other on the other side of the aisle. There is a take no prisoner attitude surrounding politics, that it is no longer congenial, with the fighting both political and personal.
There is no longer any grey, only black and white. They can’t seem to compromise for the better good. The problem with politicians is that they are stuck with an ideology and can’t get around it, which explains why nothing ever gets done. Sandford told that he wrote it because, “In a nut shell I was fed up with both sides, Republican and Democrat. This book is not a “who done it,” but more in the tradition of Colombo, a “how they done it.” She has hired as bodyguards two trained killers who will protect her at any cost.
The trail leads to the disappearance of a political fixer, the involvement of the Minneapolis police department, and more troublingly, to the dirty tricks of his opponent, Taryn Grant. Senator Porter Smalls is running for re-election and is accused of having child pornography on his office computer. The story begins when Lucas Davenport, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Agent (BAC) is asked by the state’s Governor to investigate a campaign scandal. For anyone who is disgusted with politics as usual this is a must read book. His dialogue is very realistic and often times funny. He has the ability to blend strong characterizations with a very powerful plot. John Sandford’s latest book, Silken Prey, is a fascinating insight into the world of politics. You can read all of our book reviews by clicking on the Books category on the far right sidebar. The following book review and exclusive interview with John Sanford is provided as a special by Elise Cooper for BlackFive readers.
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