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Summary: Prey for Flowers
Comment: If you loved the prey series, you will certainly enjoy the new series featuring a virulent new bud.
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Summary: A Great Book
Comment: The first Virgil Flowers book was ok, but seemed a little forced, a bit tentative. This one has the magic. Virgil is a fully realized, well rounded and quirky character. He's smart and he's unpredictable.
In this book, a series of Vietnam vets have been murdered. Lemons have been left in their mouths, supposedly something the Vietnamese did to prisoners who were about to be executed. It turns out that one of the American vets had gone on a rampage near the end of the war, killing an innocent family and raping a young woman. Now, the young woman's father, a high government official in Vietnam, has dispatched a hit team, seeking revenge.
Virgil, who made his first appearance in the Prey series, seemed in the last book to be a pale echo of Lucas Davenport. Sandford has evidently (and wisely) decided that the best way to lend Virgil his mentor's gravitas is to have the two spend a lot of time together. Davenport is a major character in this book, guiding and controlling the younger man's investigation, a little like M to Virgil's James Bond. Three times in the book, it is stated that Virgil is "just like Davenport," the last by Virgil himself, who adds, "when you were younger." Davenport smiles and says, "Not much younger."
The book ends with a ferocious bang, skewering the pomposity and pretensions of the Feds and setting us up for many more volumes of what has turned into a terrific series.
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Summary: Another great audio read!
Comment: I read this book on unabridged audio. The narrarator did a good job.
I enjoyed the book and the twists and turns to the plot. Sanford has done it again.
I, unlike one reviewer, like Virgil Flowers. He gets the woman and gets the job done.......hard to beat that combination!
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Summary: Not great - but the best Sandford novel in a while
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