Gathering Prey

Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, has made friends in San Francisco with a young woman who belongs to the Travelers, a loose community of drifters who move from city to city and rarely stay anywhere for long. When that woman calls Letty in a state of real fear, the story she tells is troubling: her male companion has vanished, and she believes someone is hunting people like them.

Letty pushes her father to look into it. Lucas has his doubts and suspects his daughter may be the target of a con, but he agrees to help anyway. What starts as a favor for Letty turns into a search that carries him deep into a world of transient people and hidden rules that he has never encountered in all his years of police work.

As the killings among the Travelers come to light, the investigation grows more dangerous for both Lucas and Letty. This entry in the Lucas Davenport series follows Extreme Prey, and it promises to leave a lasting mark on his life.