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Neon Prey
by John Sandford
One of the more lightweight (albeit ghastly) Lucas Davenport outings. The running joke--the man he and others are tracking ate pieces of his earlier victims--gets a little tiresome, involving lots of 'OMG the Cannibal!' references. And the very end of the book--the inevitable, horrible showdown--goes on too long.
But along the way there's lots of snappy writing, which is the main attraction in a Sandford book. Funny cop-to-cop exchanges, tactical screwups (there are a lot of them, in this book) and glimpses into the personal lives of totally despicable people make the book bounce along. The settings (LA and Vegas) are colorful and the bad guys' tricks are clever enough to fool smart cops a lot of the time. And the last 10 pages--a kind of epilogue--are fun.
Four-minus.
But along the way there's lots of snappy writing, which is the main attraction in a Sandford book. Funny cop-to-cop exchanges, tactical screwups (there are a lot of them, in this book) and glimpses into the personal lives of totally despicable people make the book bounce along. The settings (LA and Vegas) are colorful and the bad guys' tricks are clever enough to fool smart cops a lot of the time. And the last 10 pages--a kind of epilogue--are fun.
Four-minus.