{"id":34616,"date":"2022-08-23T09:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=34616"},"modified":"2022-08-23T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:19:44","slug":"lucas-davenport-vs-virgil-flowers-which-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/23\/lucas-davenport-vs-virgil-flowers-which-is-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Davenport vs Virgil Flowers: Which is better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People argue. Some say the Prey novels with Lucas Davenport are the best. Others, usually women, say it&#8217;s that fucking Flowers all the way.  Like that.  I say, why not have both.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Righteous-Prey-Novel-Book-32-ebook\/dp\/B09PQDNCML\/?&#038;_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;linkId=5f7c59aee073c47be4bbd122b4dde319&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\" rel=\"noopener\">Righteous Prey<\/a> is the new Sandford novel that comes out in October, available now for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Righteous-Prey-Novel-Book-32-ebook\/dp\/B09PQDNCML\/?&#038;_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;linkId=d8935a0ba2cc8f60681b3673c5197198&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\" rel=\"noopener\">preorder<\/a>.  <em>Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to murder people who need to be murdered.\u201d So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as \u201cThe Five,\u201d shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers who are very bored\u2026and very rich. They target the worst of society\u2014rapists, murderers, and thieves\u2014and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they\u2019ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become the most popular figures on social media, a modern-day Batman\u2026though their motives may not be entirely pure.<\/p>\n<p>After a woman is murdered in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full&#8211;the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, The Five are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve ordered mine, have you ordered yours?<\/p>\n<p>(BTW the price is lower than typical, not sure why, but I&#8217;m not asking questions.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People argue. Some say the Prey novels with Lucas Davenport are the best. Others, usually women, say it&#8217;s that fucking Flowers all the way. Like that. I say, why not have both. Righteous Prey is the new Sandford novel that comes out in October, available now for preorder. Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/23\/lucas-davenport-vs-virgil-flowers-which-is-better\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lucas Davenport vs Virgil Flowers: Which is better?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5024],"tags":[40,6306,6307,6309,6308],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/51vsW7StHjL.jpg?fit=332%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-90k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34619,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34616\/revisions\/34619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}