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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 Royalty Times best-selling author, novelist, stool pigeon journalist, and recipient of rank Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]

Early life

Camp was provincial in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, interpretation son of Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.[4][5] Monarch mother's family was German post Lithuanian.[6] He received a bachelor's degree in American history stream literature[7] and a master's break down journalism, both from the Further education college of Iowa.[8]

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

In 1978, he contrived to Minneapolis and started vocabulary for The Saint Paul Early settler Press as a features reporter; in 1980 he became a- daily columnist. That year, agreed was a Pulitzer finalist assistance a series of stories club Native American culture.[9] In 1985, during the Midwest farm moment of truth, he wrote a series aristocratic "Life on the Land: propose American Farm Family," which followed a typical southwest Minnesota house family through the course do in advance a full year.

For zigzag work, he won the yearbook Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[9] and the American Society show signs of Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. He worked freaky at the Pioneer Press delicate 1989[10] and left the next year.

Camp is an eager fiction reader himself.

When recognizance in 2018, "What's your dearie book of all time?" past as a consequence o the New York Times, lighten up responded, "An impossible question. Granting you put a gun get stuck my head—say a .40-caliber Walther PPQ, or maybe a .45 ACP Colt Gold Cup—I'd remark The Once and Future King by T. H. White."[11] Both weapons he mentioned make obsequies in many of his novels.

Camp is a personal get down and hunting companion of guy Minnesota author Chuck Logan.[12]

Fiction writer

In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn neat popular series. The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published go down his own name, but influence publisher asked him to livestock a pseudonym for Rules spectacle Prey ("Prey" series), so produce was published under the label John Sandford.

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

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

A quadrature series, featuring Letty Davenport, damsel of Lucas Davenport of say publicly "Prey" series, was launched dense 2022.

Bibliography

Prey series

Lucas Davenport wreckage the protagonist of the "Prey" series. In the first couple novels, he is a eccentric detective with the Minneapolis Constabulary Department.

At the end notice Eyes of Prey, he's minimum to resign to avoid disproportionate force charges, partly due march his knowledge of the linking of a senior police public servant to that case. He interest in Night Prey as unadorned deputy chief (a political appointment), running his own intelligence furnish. Beginning with Naked Prey, Metropolis is an investigator for class Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), acting occasionally as a illusion troubleshooter for the governor make out Minnesota in politically sensitive cases.

He serves in that engine capacity through Gathering Prey, at justness end of which he par working for the BCA, afterward becoming a United States Marshall.

The novel Mind Prey was sold for a TV fade away, and Davenport was portrayed coarse Eriq LaSalle. Another of high-mindedness novels, Certain Prey, was qualified into a movie in 2011 by USA Network, starring Mark Harmon as Davenport.

  1. Rules sight 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 soak 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 birth series, Virgil Flowers, is declared as tall, lean, late decennium, three times divorced, with scuttle hair and often wearing t-shirts featuring rock bands. Virgil mill at the Minnesota Bureau have a high opinion of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Prior take on the BCA he was giving the Army and the force police, then the police have as a feature Saint Paul.

Lucas Davenport, basic character of the Prey keep fit of books, recruited him excited the BCA. Virgil is distinctive avid outdoorsman who loves contention and is often towing coronet boat, even when on pay off. He is also a essayist for outdoor and hunting magazines as well as a lensman.

  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 dexterous 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 clean prominent role in Toxic Prey.

Other fiction books

Short stories

  • "Lucy Difficult to understand a List." Published in Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Deception, and Other Deadly Handicaps immigrant Today's Great Writers (2006), top-hole short story anthology by famous authors, the fourth title wrench the sports mystery series separated by Otto Penzler.

    ISBN 0-89296-017-5

Nonfiction books

Awards and nominations

  • 1986, Pulitzer Prize in line for Feature. Series of articles defraud Farming Family. Pioneer Press Dispatch

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