Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers) | John Sandford | John Sanford excells again...

Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers) | John Sandford | Fun read with a very likeable character

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	Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers) John Sandford Putnam Adult, 2008 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fresh from his ?spectacular? (Cleveland Plain Dealer) debut in Dark of the Moon, investigator Virgil Flowers takes on a puzzling?and most alarming?case, in the new book from the #1 bestselling author.

John Sandford?s introduction of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers was an immediate critical and popular success: ?laser-sharp characters and a plot that?s fast and surprising? (Cleveland Plain Dealer); ?an idiosyncratic, thoroughly ingratiating hero? (Booklist). Flowers is only in his late thirties, but he?s been around the block a few times, and he doesn?t think much can surprise him anymore. He?s wrong.

It?s a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if you?re keeping count), when the phone rings. It?s Lucas Davenport. There?s a body in Stillwater?two shots to the head, found near a veteran?s memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth.

Exactly like the body they found last week.

The more Flowers works the murders, the more convinced he is that someone?s keeping a list, and that the list could have a lot more names on it. If he could only find out what connects them all . . . and then he does, and he?s almost sorry he did.

Because if it?s true, then this whole thing leads down a lot more trails than he thought?and every one of them is booby-trapped.

Filled with the audacious plotting, rich characters, and brilliant suspense that have always made his books ?compulsively readable? (Los Angeles Times), this is vintage Sandford.

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John Sanford excells again...

Another great book by John Sanford, Virgil Flowers is a very lileable caracter with, just a little of the prey novels, without really mentioning them, it was a very easy read.I have read all Johns books and as always looking forward to the next release..

Fun read with a very likeable character

I was eagerly awaiting this book and was not disappointed.

I will not go into the story details because many others have already done that. I will just say..It is fun, interesting, and unusual in that the bad guys don't always lose in this one.

I am a great fan of Vince Flynn, Daniel Silva and other thriller authors. I like the change of pace Virgil offers ! And of course his infamous nickname "That f*****g Flowers" always gets a grin from me.

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Good

I'm a huge John Sandford fan so I was looking forward to this book. Not a great story - which is unusual for Sandford. Writing is great, as expected. Too much Davenport in this book (I LOVE Davenport - but this is Flowers story). Glad I bought it.

Jumped the Shark at the End

(I won't lie. Part of me just wanted to say "Jump the Shark" this morning.) I like Virgil Flowers a lot. He has a haircut in my mind's eye, but other than that he's a less depressing young Lucas Davenport. The pacing is also John Sandford: Prologue = Crime; First Chapter = Investigator in Bed; Then the Mystery Takes Off. This installment's plot reaches back to the Vietnam War (which was forty years ago now) and ends with a cameo by the "Dept of Homeland Security" (yawn). Still the farfetched plot is held together by great characters and affection for Virgil. I prefer old fashioned homegrown crime, so I graded it down to three stars, but overall this was a fun read. Incidentally, Mr. Sandford could teach many a suspense novelist how to put politics into a novel without taking you out of the actual story. Great job.

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Finally a Decent Virgil Flowers Story

This is the first Virgil Flowers story worth reading but get it in paperback unless you have cash to burn. Actually written this time by John Sandford, Flowers is in charge of solving a string of unusual murders relating back to the Vietnam war. It is a different direction for Sandford and slightly left of center politically but not so that it is excessively annoying. Flowers is a three dimensional character for the first time so the reader may actually begin to care about him for a change. There are some humorous moments in the story and it even prompted me to buy a 'WWTDD' T Shirt... don't ask.

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