The novel begins with a political dirty trick in a knock down, drag out US Senate race in Minnesota. Child pornography has been found on the office computer of the incumbent Senator. Is it his? Or, was it planted there by an operative of the challenger's? And on top of everything else, one of those political operatives seems to have turned up missing. The Governor of Minnesota, Elmer Henderson, asks Lucas to investigate the matter and try to clean it all up before Election Day, a mere eight days away.
In conducting his investigation, Lucas discovers just what a blood sport Politics is, and realizes how his career could be on the line depending on how the whole mess turns out.
Other Sandford characters make appearances, including Virgil Flowers, and Kidd, an artist and part time computer hacker, and his wife, Lauren, who has a very interesting background herself. Kidd is the subject of about a half dozen other Sandford novels. I have not read any of those, but I think I am going to have to give them a whirl. My favorite character, however, may be that of Governor Henderson. He has some great lines of dialog in this book, and I kept picturing him as John Slattery, the guy who plays Roger Sterling on "Mad Men". His lines are that good! The door is also left open so that one of these characters may appear again to bedevil Lucas in future "Prey" novels.
As I said, "Silken Prey" is another home run for John Sandford. Read it.
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