Storm Prey, by John Sandford

Lucas Davenport, the hero of John Sandford's Prey series, is something of a super-cop--brilliant, fearless, loved by his colleagues. But in Storm Prey, Lucas and his crack team are always one step behind the band of idiotic criminals they are pursuing. In fact, the criminals essentially kill themselves (and a number of others) off before Lucas et al. figure out exactly what is going on. Just about the only success they have in the book is protecting Lucas's wife Weather, who saw the criminals driving off after the heist that set the book's events in motion. Weather, meanwhile, is taking part in a complicated operation to separate conjoined twins, which provides a subplot that should be more engaging than it is.

Storm Prey is far from the best book in the series, but it did make me wonder how often the police really are a step behind the bad guys, who are causing more and more mayhem as they try to avoid being caught. I know it's fiction...but it could happen, right?

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