Lukas Davenport makes his seventeenth apperance in John Sandford`s newest novel, Broken Prey. Davenport`s current position is as a Minnesota State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator, who, of late, has been doing behind-the-scenes gigs forthe governor. But a sadistic psychopathic serial killer has been released from the state hospital for the criminally insane and horrific murders are popping up like bad pennies. "All major metro areas ha[s] them, sometimes two and three at a time. The public ha[s] the impression that they were rare. They [aren`t.]"