Rules of Prey

By John Sandford

Book Number 1 in the Lucas Davenport Series.

Louis “Maddog” Vullion is a young attorney . . . and a murderer. He kills for the sheer contest, playing an elaborate game for which he has written terrifying rules. Police Lt. Lucas Davenport, a brilliant games inventor, is going to have to outmaneuver the killer’s clever plan–to beat the mad dog at his own deadly craft

First Published: 1989

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This book is in the following genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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