He writes, "Never kill anyone you know," "Never carry a weapon after it has been used," "Beware of leaving physical evidence" etc.
This killer calls himself "maddog" and leaves notes on the victims detailing his rules when it comes to killing. In Rules of Prey, Davenport gets on the trail of a serial killer who is attacking women in the Minneapolis/St. Part nerd and part man of the world, he is eminently likable despite the fact that he doesn't really work that well with people. He's also independently wealthy, having created a computer game that closely resembles Dungeons and Dragons. Like Bond, he's not above doing something a little unethical if it's for the greater good. To make things even more fun, he invented a smooth detective called Lucas Davenport.ĭavenport is not the gritty, down-to-earth type usually featured on cop shows he's more a James Bond kind of hero, with impeccable clothes, a Porsche and beautiful women at his beck and call. As a result, he quit reporting and started writing novels instead. Given that the job entailed having to face a great deal of ugliness in human nature over and over again, Camp ended up getting burnt out. BOMC featured selection Mysterious Book Club alternate.Rules of Prey is the first Lucas Davenport book written by John Sandford, a pseudonym for writer John Camp, who was initially a reporter. The author's second thriller under his own name (John Camp) will be issued by Holt in September. Despite one or two beginner's mistakes (an overly obvious red herring, a character inconsistency), the author knows his territory well the result is a police procedural as effective as it is brutal. Sandford offers no mystery here the killer's identity is revealed in the first pages, and the suspense comes in waiting for him or Davenport to slip up. The crimes are linked only by their brutality and by the slayer's ``signature'': at each scene, he leaves a written rule of crime, such as ``Never kill anyone you know,'' or ``Never carry a weapon after it has been used.'' Into the case comes Lucas Davenport, a policeman with five kills in the line of duty, a surefire sense of how to handle the thirsty media and strong instincts about the killer's psyche. A killer who calls himself the ``maddog'' has been murdering Minneapolis women, seemingly without pattern or motive. Making his fiction debut, ``Sandford,'' a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist using a pseudonym, has taken a stock suspense plot-a dedicated cop pursuing an ingenious serial killer-and dressed it up into the kind of pulse-quickening, irresistibly readable thriller that many of the genre's best-known authors would be proud to call their own.
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