Book pick: 'Mad River' by John Sandford
10:55 AM, October 2, 2012
(Book cover courtesy of publisher)
Kerri's book Pick of the Week is 'Mad River' by John Sandford.
From NPR:
Several years ago, John Sandford switched gears and introduced a new character -- Virgil Flowers. Flowers is a rural Minnesota cop who works for Lucas Davenport, but in some ways picks up where Davenport leaves off.Sandford says one of the reasons he created Flowers was because Davenport got married and had kids. "Most people like a little sex in their novels," he tells Weekend Edition host Linda Wertheimer. "And the problem with Davenport was that he could no longer chase women because that would make him a bad guy, and your hero can't be a bad guy in that way."
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