![]() ![]() ![]() There’s even a second female major character in this novel. But in Clara Rinker, Davenport seems to have met his match in intellect, intuitiveness, coldness, and cunning. Most of his other female characters-even the more fully developed ones like Lily Rothenberg, a police lieutenant from New York City-exist mainly to hop into bed with Davenport. I suspect Sandford has given us Clara Rinker because of criticism that he can’t create a dynamic female character. When Rinker does a job in Minnesota and, for the first time in her career, makes a tiny mistake, she and Lucas engage in an intellectual cat-and-mouse game. And what a villain it is: Clara Rinker, the best hit woman (or hit man) around. In his latest Lucas Davenport thriller John Sandford does something different: he focuses on the villain as much as on the hero. ![]() Putnam’s Sons, 339 pages, $24.95 hardcover ![]()
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