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Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers return with another uncrackable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. When wealthy federal judge Alex Sand and his two young sons are shot in cold blood while at home playing basketball, the brutal murders leave their St. Paul community reeling. There's no shortage of people who might have had a vendetta against the judge, and things are complicated further when it emerges that he was about to make a major donation to a local housing charity. The money now in limbo, all eyes fall on his grief-stricken widow, Margaret Cooper, to see what she will decide while she struggles to move forward after the loss of her family. As public pressure mounts and both the local police force and the FBI hit one dead end after another, it isn't long before Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to do what no one else can: find answers. Running up against flaws in every potential lead, Davenport and Flowers remain determined to chase down every angle and every theory until they figure out who killed the Sands. But when they find themselves being stonewalled by the most unlikely of forces, the two wonder if each misdirection might actually lead them closer to the truth . . . PRAISE FOR JOHN SANDFORD AND THE PREY SERIES: ‘One of the great novelists of all time’ Stephen King ‘A series writer who reads like a breath of fresh air’ Daily Mirror ‘John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating the gut-level shocks of a good thriller’ New York Times Book Review ‘John Sandford has the Midas touch’ Huffington Post ‘Delivers twists to the very last sentence’ Daily Mail ‘Crime writer John Sandford is one of the best around’ Sun