Lucas Davenport is one of the great anti-heroes in modern fiction.

The Prey series is seriously well done, all eleventy-hunnert & 12 books of it … if you (Other Person, You) like Reacher you’ll likely enjoy the exploits of ex-hockey player turned cop turned … vigilante (?) with a badge.

Major difference?  He’s a great dresser.  And owns a home.  And adopted a kid.  And got a wife.
So there’s that.

BUT.  But … he’s gotten old(er) and domesticated, so there’s a new kid in town.  Equally yet differently amusing.  Really smart but not too bright … bed/bred/brided a woman with six kids … hmm, not thinking that’s a good look but to each his own as well as that other guy’s.

Virgil Flowers (affectionately known as “That [effin’] Flowers”) is the replacement protagonist for the Prey novels, kind of a … tangent sequel, as it t’were.

Anyhoo, Virgil is surfer-blond and attitude-easy, very affable chap, who basically reveals all the secrets in a police investigation to solve a particular case.

Such a … novel approach … heh I just had to sorry not sorry.

So in “Bad Blood,” a young guy kills an older guy then gets killed himself and then the cop who kills him gets killed … there was another girl, young woman really, found dead in a field and washed clean, had the … apparent use of a prostitute without the record.  Very interesting. 

Anyway, the story gets sordid from there and while it is an entertaining read, it isn’t necessarily enjoyable because the possibility of it being more than fiction is potential fact. 

Recommend, but not really.  But kinda.  Hmmm, no.  Yeah, I guess.  Sandford is really good, soooo …

Maybe?