This is number 27 in the long (currently 35) series of Sandford books featuring Lucas Davenport. Early in the series Davenport was a Twin Cities cop, but his career has taken him to several other state and federal positions. In this one he is a US Marshal with a great deal of independence. He decides, pretty much on his own, to go after Garvin Poole, a career criminal who is suspected of murdering at least 8 people, including a 6-year-old girl. That occurred while he and an accomplice, Dora Box, were stealing about 4 million dollars from a drug cartel. It was a lucrative haul, but it put the cartel on his track – they wanted the money back. So he had to dodge both Davenport and the hit team.
This is not a whodunit. It is a “how does a federal marshal track down a desperate fugitive.” The narrative alternates between what Davenport is doing to find Poole, what the hit team is doing to find Poole and what Poole and Box are doing to elude them all. It is well written and kept my interest.
But it wasn’t a whodunit.
5 out of 10.