![]() ![]() At the end of that month, by god, we had a book. During that month, we were communicating via phone and email constantly-throwing out stuff, changing characters, completely shifting the time frame from the near future to the present. At that point, we had exactly one month until deadline. I’d left out the time he’d written a standalone titled Dead Watch, and after reading it, I’d replied that, well, I hadn’t liked it as much as I thought I would. but he noted that I’d left out some of the most important parts. He replied thanking me and said that it was lovely and flattering and all. ![]() I wrote a bunch of things like that and sent it off to him. New locales, new subject matter, new ways to commit mayhem. This was where I was going to outline some of the things John’s done over the years to escape that trap-how he transformed Lucas Davenport from an unpredictable, sexy, rich womanizer into a grown-up (though still an unpredictable one) how he kept enlarging the scope of Davenport’s activities, from city to state to the whole damned country how he invented Virgil Flowers to supplement Davenport, for those who missed the sexy how he constantly varied his style, from more thriller-ish to more mystery, from more humorous to hair-raising all the way, from unveiling the bad guy on the very first page to holding the reveal, and holding, and holding. #NEXT SANFORD PREY BOOK SERIES#That’s always the hardest part of a long-running series, isn’t it? How do you keep your books feeling new and surprising? We’ve all at some point read the latest installment of a venerated series and thought, “Really? Hasn’t he done this book before?” It’s been three decades of friendship, jokes, dinners, and publishing gossip it’s also been an unparalleled opportunity to watch a master craftsman evolve. I am luckier still to have been his editor ever since. He’s as interesting as Letty, letting her take the lead in her undercover role as a DHS researcher, even though he is more experienced in surveillance.I was lucky enough to be John’s editor then. #NEXT SANFORD PREY BOOK HOW TO#She shoots a guy without mercy or regret and takes too many chances, according to Kaiser, who knows a lot about special ops surveillance and how to stay alive. Letty is a favorite of many Sandford fans, but this reader found her character hard to figure out in the beginning of this book. And there aren’t any important secondary characters, except their DHS contact in Washington. ![]() The plot slowly grows more exciting, but it doesn’t have the quippy dialogue of the Prey and Flowers books. What will a hundred militia do with explosives stolen from an army base? And where and when will they do it? The militia caravan is forming and Letty and Kaiser have to stop a major disaster.Īs in all Sandford books, the reader knows what the bad guys are doing but Letty and Kaiser do not. Their investigations, which involve lots of driving around from El Paso to rural oil fields, lead to a white supremacist militia headed by a woman whose life is devoted to carrying out an action with the help of militia members arriving from around the country. Partnering with Department of Homeland Security Investigator John Kaiser, a former Delta Force member, she heads to the bleak areas around Midland, Texas, where the partners aren’t so interested in who is stealing the oil as where it’s going and what the money is being used for. The senator, impressed with her skills and not wanting her to quit, offers her a job investigating the theft of oil from several companies in Texas. Letty is a Stanford graduate with a master’s degree in economics and she’s bored in a desk job in the office of a U.S. ![]()
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