Silken prey
By: John Sandford
Series: Sandford, John, 1944 February 23- Lucas Davenport -- 23.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781471129629; 9781471129636; 9781471129667; 9781471129643
Subjects: Fiction
Description: Murder, scandal, political espionage and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport's going to be lucky to get out of this one alive.

A minnesota political fixer has hit the jackpot - or so he thinks. Hired to take down the incumbent U.S. senator with a vicious smear, to open the way for an ambitious, take-no-prisoners heiress who sees the Senate as merely a stepping-stone, he decides his payoff should be larger. The blackmail demand should yield some pretty large numbers, he thinks. Instead, he gets only a small one - 9 millimeters, to be exact. In the heart.
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: When a Minnesota political fixer is kidnapped. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then; title: very troublingly; title: to the Minneapolis police department itself, and then; title: most troublingly of all; title: to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, and the money, ruthlessness, and sheer will to make it happen.