Porter Smalls, a conservative Republican politician, had been caught
having porn files in his office computer. Smalls claimed that he had been framed and the
governor directly assigned Lucas Davenport to discreetly look at the case. The
election was coming and of course Smalls’ rival, Taryn Grant, benefited from this
incident.
Lucas had been fixed things for the governor before, but
this case was much more dangerous. He could make enemies everywhere if he took
a wrong step and probably would lose his job at the BCA – not that he needed
the money anyway.
Compared to the previous book in Prey series, Silken Prey
was not as exciting. The pace was slower and Lucas had no idea where to look at
until people started to be missing or killed. It was the killers who were
having ideas how to progress, how to avoid the cops, and Lucas was only
following their trails; although the killers’ efforts to shake him, gave him
more clues instead. Besides working with his usual BCA agents, he also asked
help from Kidd, a hacker and an artist.
Lucas Davenport was 40 in the first Prey book, now he was 49
and had a family: a wife, an adopted daughter, a toddler son, a baby girl, and
a housekeeper. I think he was not as sharp as before – although the amount of
curse words were much more reduced. In the old days, he wrote clues on pieces
of paper and stuck them on his wall and looked at them and thought before
sleeping. Now he often discussed cases with his wife or went shopping. "Nothing was so likely to clear the mind as spending money."
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