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I picked up a paperback version of Mind Prey some time ago. I was impressed. That led me to look for other books in the series. Starting with the first in the series, I was not disappointed. Sandford begins his novels with enough of a 'hook' to make the reader continue past a large number of characters at the outset. His word pictures put the reader in the story location, and his character descriptions make them very real. The bad guys are really bad, but definitely not shallow. The insight into a deranged killer's mind and actions is troubling. Detective Lucas Davenport is a very different kind of cop. Like the hero we wish were really out there somewhere. His method of dealing with crime tends more toward Justice than being restrained by the law. The author's depiction of the news media (although that was his career) is unfortunately accurate. The title, Rules of Prey, is accurate. The sadistic killer is brilliant, and follows rules to murder his victims. Lucas Davenport must detremine the rules and attempt to stop the serial killer. Dialogue is true to form for each character, with occasional bits of 'humor' added.


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Rules of Prey Lucas Davenport No 1 John Sandford Books Reviews

Though the first in the series, this was not the first Lucas Prey novel I read. After reading a few books out of order I decided to go back to the beginning and Wow, this was such a great start. One of the chase scenes was so exciting and vivid, I felt as though I were on the edge of my seat watching it on TV. I highly recommend this series.
As a fan of Lee Child, John D. McDonald and Randy Wayne White, I was looking for a new series with a Jack Reacher, Travis McGee or Doc Ford character that would be the central character in each novel. In my opinion, Lucas Davenport doesn’t cut it. A detective that designs games as a second occupation, drives a Porsche and chases women indiscriminately just didn’t do it for me. The novel was just OK. This was the first book of the Lucas Davenport series. I subsequently tried the second book of the series (Shadow Prey) with similar results. John Sanford May be a decent author but he doesn’t compare with those listed above. The books drag and the suspense is minimal. It is hard to find Davenport anywhere as intriguing as Reacher, McGee or Ford.
After reading (and reviewing here) 10 novels in John Sandford‘s two long-running series featuring Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers, which all told now number 34 and counting, I thought it would be amusing to turn back the clock to the very first book in the Davenport series, Rules of Prey. I was not disappointed.

A serial killer makes the “rules”

The first surprise in this series about a cop who always gains the upper hand is that the “rules” of the title are not Davenport’s creation but the taunting challenges of a twisted serial killer. Davenport, a detective lieutenant in the Minneapolis Police Department, has already achieved a reputation as the smartest detective in town. (His senior job at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension lies somewhere in his future.) Davenport has a wide network of informants throughout the city, gained during years as a vice cop, and the chief of police holds him in high esteem. He seems to get whatever he wants — but it’s not enough to catch the brutal serial murderer who leaves numbered notes on his victims spelling out the “rules” he follows to avoid capture.

How a serial hero came to be

In an introduction to the edition, Sandford tells the diverting tale of how he turned to writing fiction to escape his increasingly tedious work as a newspaper reporter. (NB he was no slouch. Sandford had won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.) Rules of Prey was actually his second novel. He wrote it after his agent suggested, having sold his first, that he might be able to earn a living writing crime fiction. However, Sandford notes, “When I wrote Rules, it never really occurred to me that this one guy, Lucas Davenport, was going to be a second career for me.” But it’s not hard to see how this superior murder mystery gained the success on which he could build that career.

The Lucas Davenport in Rules of Prey bears some resemblance to the more mature man who appears in the later novels, but there are differences. Here, Davenport beds practically every attractive woman who crosses his path, quite in contrast to the securely married man of the later novels. He is also a bad-ass, and when he breaks the rules, it’s not just to wave a fist at feckless bureaucrats but to act out in ways that should get him arrested. As Sandford notes, “Cops don’t act like Lucas Davenport [in Rules of Prey] — they’d be fired or even imprisoned if they did. They aren’t rich, they don’t drive Porsches, most could give a rat’s ass about fashion. Lucas Davenport does all that.” However, though he does already drive a Porsche, Davenport in Rules is working hard, nights and weekends, to earn the fortune that gives him the independence he flaunts in the later novels.
I'm not sure why this book got some many 5-stars. To me, as an ex-cop, the main character Lucas Davenport, is someone who would never exist within a law enforcement agency. His character is not real and the way the author paints him as someone operating outside normal police procedures is completely nonsensical. This book and character lost me when he went back to interview the victim of an attempted sexual assault and then during the interview, assaulted the victim all over again, supposedly for the purpose of getting her to recall "repressed" insights. Then, if that wasn't weird enough, as he's driving away from her apartment, sees her walking down the street, pulls up, and asks her out on a date!, (which in the real world, either of these actions would've gotten him FIRED). And of course, because he's such an irresistible catch, she says YES! This after just having been traumatized all over again by the dude. Unbelievable. Add to this that he's supposed to be a savant gaming developer and (as the author hammers into our head multiple times), drives a Porsche - - you start to understand this guy is narcissistic light weight and not someone you want to spend the length of an entire book ready about.
I picked up a paperback version of Mind Prey some time ago. I was impressed. That led me to look for other books in the series. Starting with the first in the series, I was not disappointed. Sandford begins his novels with enough of a 'hook' to make the reader continue past a large number of characters at the outset. His word pictures put the reader in the story location, and his character descriptions make them very real. The bad guys are really bad, but definitely not shallow. The insight into a deranged killer's mind and actions is troubling. Detective Lucas Davenport is a very different kind of cop. Like the hero we wish were really out there somewhere. His method of dealing with crime tends more toward Justice than being restrained by the law. The author's depiction of the news media (although that was his career) is unfortunately accurate. The title, Rules of Prey, is accurate. The sadistic killer is brilliant, and follows rules to murder his victims. Lucas Davenport must detremine the rules and attempt to stop the serial killer. Dialogue is true to form for each character, with occasional bits of 'humor' added.