#1ST PREY BOOK VIRGIL FLOWERS SERIES#

Flawed and far from perfect but very real and engaging. Sandford has created really really likeable characters.

#1ST PREY BOOK VIRGIL FLOWERS SERIES#

I guess if I had to say why I enjoy the Lucas Davenport (Prey) or Virgil Flowers’ series so much I’d say it’s because of the characters. They'd all get rich! What could go wrong? And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things, right? They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would-until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: 'I'll Do What I Can') and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls for which the word 'moribund' might have been invented. And (other than the weird inclusion of bloody larceny involving children’s toys again – this time lego* instead of barbie dolls!) THIS was more the Sandford I know and love. Obviously it didn’t deter me as I was keen to rejoin Virgil (or ‘that fuckin Flowers’ as he’s known to most) on his latest exploits. Though in fairness to him he was facing fatherhood and monogamy for the first time ever. In reality I missed the wild, irresponsible and irreverent Virgil who seemed much changed. I was a tad harsh on John Sandford and Virgil Flowers when we last caught up in Deep Freeze.

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