bTHE iNEW YORK TIMES/i BESTSELLERbrbrLucas Davenport s first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the #1 iNew York Times/i-bestselling series.brbr/biThe man was smart and he didn t mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. /ibbrbr/bThanks to some veryi /iinfluential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but for the U.S. Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they lead him.brbrAnd where they ve led him this time is into real trouble. A Biloxi, Mississippi, drug-cartel counting house gets robbed, and suitcases full of cash disappear, leaving behind five bodies, including that of a six-year-old girl. Davenport takes the case, which quickly spirals out of control, as cartel assassins, including a torturer known as the Queen of home-improvement tools compete with Davenport to find the Dixie Hicks shooters who knocked over the counting house. Things get ugly ireal/i fast, and neither the cartel killers nor the holdup men give a damn about whose lives Davenport might have saved; to them, he s just another large target.brbrFilled with his trademark razor-sharp plotting and some of the best characters in suspense fiction, iGolden Prey/i is further reason why Sandford has always been at the top of any list of great mystery writers (iThe Huffington Post/i).