A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES: Lucas Davenport is the protagonist of the "Lucas Davenport" or "Prey" series. In the first three novels, he is a maverick detective with the Minneapolis Police Department. At the end of Eyes of Prey, he's forced to resign to avoid excessive force charges, partly due to his knowledge of the connection of a senior police officer to that case. He returns in Night Prey as a deputy chief (a political appointment), running his own intelligence unit. Beginning with Naked Prey, Davenport is an investigator for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), acting occasionally as a special troubleshooter for the governor of Minnesota in politically sensitive cases. He serves in that capacity through Gathering Prey, at the end of which he quits working for the BCA, later becoming a United States Marshal. (From Wikipedia)The bestseller that introduced Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport--and John Sandford's deft touch for heartstopping suspense...

Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)

Rules of prey. Bk. 1

Sandford, John

Berkley Publishing Group

Penguin Publishing Group

Boulevard Books

Prey series (Book), New York, New York, 2003, c1989

United States, United States of America

Prey (1), August 5, 2003

Louis "Maddog" Vullion is a young attorney . . . and a murderer. He kills for the sheer contest, playing an elaborate game for which he has written terrifying rules. Police Lt. Lucas Davenport, a brilliant games inventor, is going to have to outmaneuver the killer's clever plan--to beat the mad dog at his own deadly craft.

A rooftop billboard cast a flickering blue light through the studio windows.

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