Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport, Book 18) by John Sandford

By John Sandford

A filthy rich widow returns to her huge domestic in an particular Minneapolis suburb to discover blood in all places, no physique - and her pupil daughter lacking. immediately, she suspects the involvement of the unusual Goth crowd her daughter have been striking round with. with out signal of the widow's daughter, lifeless or alive, a moment Goth is located slashed to demise - yet it's basically while a 3rd useless Goth turns up that Lucas Davenport will get concerned. however the clues don't appear to upload up. Then there's the younger Goth who retains showing and disappearing. who's she? the place does she come from and, extra importantly, the place does she vanish to? And why does Davenport get the sneaking suspicion that there's anything else happening the following - whatever very, very undesirable certainly?

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That’s why they’d offered him two guns, and the important gun wasn’t the one he’d chosen, it was the one he’d touched and rejected. Well, that really iced the cupcake. All they had to do was pick him up—for anything at all, really—and he was finished. They’d match his prints to the prints on the Glock, and what could he possibly say? I touched the gun, but I went for the revolver instead, because automatics tend to jam, although this one evidently didn’t. And I didn’t want to shoot a governor with it, just some mope weeding his lawn, and I never did shoot anybody, so what difference does it make?

But if this worked, he’d have some breathing room. They’d find the car, with his rental papers in the glove box. They’d find the smashed-up phone, and they’d probably get a print off the pizza box, and what conclusion would they draw? That he’d switched cars? That he’d switched plates and kept the same old car? No, they’d almost certainly assume that he’d come to the airport because it was in fact an airport, with the intention of getting on a plane. And they’d have a tough time establishing unequivo- Hit and Run ■ 49 cally that he hadn’t somehow managed to slip through Security and do just that.

He stared at the phone as he might have stared at a talking dog. It was Dot, it could only be Dot. Nobody else had his cell number, and who else would have repeated the message and inserted damn the second time around? But how had Dot managed to turn herself into a robot? Then he remembered. A neat trick she’d discovered in one of the applications she ran on her computer. You highlighted a piece of text, pressed something or other, and the computer read the words aloud in a voice all its own.

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