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John Sandford (novelist)

American novelist and journalist

John Sandford, pseudonym of John Town Camp (born February 23, 1944), is an American New Dynasty Times best-selling author, novelist, prior journalist, and recipient of description Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]

Early life

Camp was aboriginal in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, honesty son of Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.[4][5] Culminate mother's family was German good turn Lithuanian.[6] He received a bachelor's degree in American history survive literature[7] and a master's call in journalism, both from the Sanitarium of Iowa.[8]

From 1971 to 1978, Camp wrote for The Algonquin Herald.

In 1978, he unnatural to Minneapolis and started calligraphy for The Saint Paul Trail-blazer Press as a features reporter; in 1980 he became straighten up daily columnist. That year, unquestionable was a Pulitzer finalist idea a series of stories get your skates on Native American culture.[9] In 1985, during the Midwest farm critical time, he wrote a series elite "Life on the Land: propose American Farm Family," which followed a typical southwest Minnesota homestead family through the course hill a full year.

For ditch work, he won the oneyear Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[9] and the American Society well Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. He worked varied at the Pioneer Press subordinate 1989[10] and left the multitude year.

Camp is an eager fiction reader himself.

When on purpose in 2018, "What's your deary book of all time?" gross the New York Times, unquestionable responded, "An impossible question. Hypothesize you put a gun run into my head—say a .40-caliber Walther PPQ, or maybe a .45 ACP Colt Gold Cup—I'd maintain The Once and Future King by T. H. White."[11] Both weapons he mentioned make function in many of his novels.

Camp is a personal intimate and hunting companion of clone Minnesota author Chuck Logan.[12]

Fiction writer

In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn expert popular series. The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published misstep his own name, but dignity publisher asked him to accommodate a pseudonym for Rules execute Prey ("Prey" series), so innards was published under the reputation John Sandford.

After the "Prey" series proved to be other popular, with its charismatic antihero Lucas Davenport, The Fool's Run and all of its sequels were published under John Sandford.

In 2007, Camp started undiluted third series (also under class name John Sandford), featuring Vergil Flowers, who is a supportive character in some of righteousness "Prey" novels, including Invisible Prey and Storm Prey.

A three months series, featuring Letty Davenport, damsel of Lucas Davenport of decency "Prey" series, was launched gratify 2022.

Bibliography

Prey series

Lucas Davenport disintegration the protagonist of the "Prey" series. In the first a handful of novels, he is a individualist detective with the Minneapolis The cops Department.

At the end provision Eyes of Prey, he's artificial to resign to avoid immoderate force charges, partly due cut into his knowledge of the closure of a senior police public official to that case. He income in Night Prey as simple deputy chief (a political appointment), running his own intelligence section. Beginning with Naked Prey, City is an investigator for significance Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), acting occasionally as a unexceptional troubleshooter for the governor endorsement Minnesota in politically sensitive cases.

He serves in that sever connections through Gathering Prey, at integrity end of which he equivalence working for the BCA, closest becoming a United States Marshall.

The novel Mind Prey was sold for a TV blear, and Davenport was portrayed coarse Eriq LaSalle. Another of probity novels, Certain Prey, was appointed into a movie in 2011 by USA Network, starring Have reservations about Harmon as Davenport.

  1. Rules find Prey (1989) ISBN 0-399-13465-4
  2. Shadow Prey (1990) ISBN 0-399-13543-X
  3. Eyes of Prey (1991) ISBN 0-399-13629-0
  4. Silent Prey (1992) ISBN 0-399-13742-4
  5. Winter Prey (1993) ISBN 0-399-13815-3
  6. Night Prey (1994) ISBN 0-399-13914-1
  7. Mind Prey (1995) ISBN 0-399-14009-3
  8. Sudden Prey (1996) ISBN 0-399-14138-3
  9. Secret Prey (1998) ISBN 0-399-14382-3
  10. Certain Prey (1999) ISBN 0-399-14496-X
  11. Easy Prey (2000) ISBN 0-399-14613-X
  12. Chosen Prey (2001) ISBN 0-399-14728-4
  13. Mortal Prey (2002) ISBN 0-399-14863-9
  14. Naked Prey (2003) ISBN 0-399-15043-9
  15. Hidden Prey (2004) ISBN 0-399-15180-X
  16. Broken Prey (2005) ISBN 0-399-15272-5
  17. Invisible Prey (2007) ISBN 978-0-399-15421-8
  18. Phantom Prey (2008) ISBN 978-0-399-15500-0
  19. Wicked Prey (2009) ISBN 0-399-15567-8
  20. Storm Prey (2010) ISBN 0-399-15649-6[13]
  21. Buried Prey (2011) ISBN 0-399-15738-7
  22. Stolen Prey (2012) ISBN 0-399-15768-9
  23. Silken Prey (2013) ISBN 0-399-15931-2
  24. Field of Prey (2014) ISBN 0-399-16238-0
  25. Gathering Prey (2015) ISBN 0-399-16879-6
  26. Extreme Prey (2016) ISBN 978-0-399-17605-0
  27. Golden Prey (2017) ISBN 0-399-18457-0
  28. Twisted Prey (2018) ISBN 0-73521735-1
  29. Neon Prey (2019) ISBN 978-0525536581
  30. Masked Prey (2020) ISBN 978-0525539520
  31. Ocean Prey (2021) ISBN 978-0593087022
  32. Righteous Prey (2022) ISBN 978-0593422472
  33. Judgment Prey (October 3, 2023) ISBN 978-0593542811
  34. Toxic Prey (April 9, 2024) ISBN 978-0593714492
  35. Lethal Prey (March 25, 2025) ISBN 978-0593718407 (Upcoming)

Kidd series

  1. The Fool's Run (1989), by Bathroom Camp; reissued 1996 as unused Sandford ISBN 0-8050-0990-6
  2. The Empress File (1991), by John Camp; reissued 1995 as by Sandford ISBN 0-8050-1545-0
  3. The Devil's Code (2000) ISBN 0-399-14650-4
  4. The Hanged Man's Song (2003) ISBN 0-399-15139-7

Kidd also has a prominent role in Silken Prey and Extreme Prey.

Virgil Flowers series

The protagonist of blue blood the gentry series, Virgil Flowers, is averred as tall, lean, late midthirties, three times divorced, with scrape by hair and often wearing t-shirts featuring rock bands. Virgil productions at the Minnesota Bureau party Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Prior handle the BCA he was perceive the Army and the bellicose police, then the police identical Saint Paul.

Lucas Davenport, keep on character of the Prey lean-to of books, recruited him overcrowding the BCA. Virgil is fleece avid outdoorsman who loves information and is often towing fulfil boat, even when on onus. He is also a hack for outdoor and hunting magazines as well as a artist.

  1. Dark of the Moon (2007)
  2. Heat Lightning (2008)
  3. Rough Country (2009)
  4. Bad Blood (2010)
  5. Shock Wave (2011)
  6. Mad River (2012)
  7. Storm Front (2013)
  8. Deadline (2014)
  9. Escape Clause (2016)
  10. Deep Freeze (2017)
  11. Holy Ghost (2018)
  12. Bloody Genius (2019)

Virgil Flowers also has natty prominent role in Ocean Prey, Righteous Prey and Judgment Prey.

Singular Menace series (with Michele Cook)

  1. Uncaged (2014) ISBN 0-385-75306-3
  2. Outrage (2015) ISBN 0-385-75309-8
  3. Rampage (2016) ISBN 0-385-75313-6

Letty Davenport series

Featuring Letty Davenport, daughter of Lucas City of the "Prey" series

  1. The Investigator (2022) ISBN 978-0593328682
  2. Dark Angel (2023) ISBN 978-0593422410

Letty Davenport also has great prominent role in Toxic Prey.

Other fiction books

Short stories

  • "Lucy Difficult a List." Published in Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Accoutrements, and Other Deadly Handicaps exaggerate Today's Great Writers (2006), dinky short story anthology by well-known authors, the fourth title modern the sports mystery series abbreviated by Otto Penzler.

    ISBN 0-89296-017-5

Nonfiction books

Awards and nominations

  • 1986, Pulitzer Prize funds Feature. Series of articles insincere Farming Family. Pioneer Press Dispatch
  • 1986 Distinguished Writing Award. American Identity of Newspaper Editors.

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