Righteous Prey

John Sandford

Oct 2022 · A Prey Novel Book 32 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in this thrilling novel in the beloved series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

“We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.”

So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media …though their motives may not be entirely pure.

After The Five strike again in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full--the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers.

Ratings and reviews

I love John Sanford. And I love his books. Only once or twice have I had one that slightly disappointed. It seemed more slapstick and less....idk, real, than what is typical. Sanford usually has a way of working the funny parts in with the serious cop criminal story but this time it just seemed sloppy. Big clusters of jokes with big clusters of gory murders, and not much in between. Maybe it was too many characters, maybe it was the sloppy rushed plot. Idk. This one DID have its moments but unlike most Davenport / Flowers novels, it was missing being a whole experience. I also noticed what seemed like the authors fear of making the book too political one way or another. That always hurts the story when an author holds back. Making Virgil seem like a MAGA fan just to placate whatever readers needed that just served to make Virgil look very stupid, and we all know Virgil is a smart man. Not my favorite one, but not awful either. B- C+

I’m rally loving this buddy act that Lucas and Virgil have going on! They rally balance each other but they are also hilarious when they are together. I feel like this book already is setting up the next one. It was heavy on the politics but didn’t feel over the top.

I've been reading your books for a while and they're good books but you're a racist. I know you were pissed off when the black guy played lucas davenport

About the author

John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of thirty-one Prey novels; four Kidd novels; twelve Virgil Flowers novels; three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook; and three other books.