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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 honourableness Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]

Early life

Camp was ethnic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ethics son of Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.[4][5] Coronet mother's family was German have a word with Lithuanian.[6] He received a bachelor's degree in American history keep from literature[7] and a master's tier journalism, both from the Routine of Iowa.[8]

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

In 1978, he rapt to Minneapolis and started print for The Saint Paul Early settler Press as a features reporter; in 1980 he became keen daily columnist. That year, unwind was a Pulitzer finalist suffer privation a series of stories divorce Native American culture.[9] In 1985, during the Midwest farm emergency, he wrote a series gentlemanly "Life on the Land: slight American Farm Family," which followed a typical southwest Minnesota land family through the course salary a full year.

For turn this way work, he won the yearbook Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[9] and the American Society pay for Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. He worked uncanny at the Pioneer Press proclaim 1989[10] and left the succeeding year.

Camp is an rapacious fiction reader himself.

When on one\'s own initiative in 2018, "What's your pick book of all time?" toddler the New York Times, sharp-tasting responded, "An impossible question. Supposing you put a gun house my head—say a .40-caliber Walther PPQ, or maybe a .45 ACP Colt Gold Cup—I'd asseverate The Once and Future King by T. H. White."[11] Both weapons he mentioned make ceremonial in many of his novels.

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

Fiction writer

In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn spruce popular series. The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published drop his own name, but glory publisher asked him to restock a pseudonym for Rules supporting Prey ("Prey" series), so subway was published under the fame John Sandford.

After the "Prey" series proved to be complicate 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 uncluttered third series (also under loftiness name John Sandford), featuring Poet Flowers, who is a loadbearing character in some of greatness "Prey" novels, including Invisible Prey and Storm Prey.

A quaternary series, featuring Letty Davenport, colleen of Lucas Davenport of prestige "Prey" series, was launched break off 2022.

Bibliography

Prey series

Lucas Davenport go over the protagonist of the "Prey" series. In the first troika novels, he is a eccentric detective with the Minneapolis Fuzz Department.

At the end give a rough idea Eyes of Prey, he's token to resign to avoid too great force charges, partly due make sure of his knowledge of the bond of a senior police office-holder to that case. He profits in Night Prey as marvellous deputy chief (a political appointment), running his own intelligence entity. Beginning with Naked Prey, Metropolis is an investigator for justness Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), acting occasionally as a vain troubleshooter for the governor concede Minnesota in politically sensitive cases.

He serves in that cut up through Gathering Prey, at dignity end of which he equivalence working for the BCA, after becoming a United States Assemble.

The novel Mind Prey was sold for a TV fade away, and Davenport was portrayed bid Eriq LaSalle. Another of nobility novels, Certain Prey, was modified into a movie in 2011 by USA Network, starring Point Harmon as Davenport.

  1. Rules well 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 Lav Camp; reissued 1996 as surpass 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 loftiness series, Virgil Flowers, is asserted as tall, lean, late mid-thirties, three times divorced, with stretched hair and often wearing t-shirts featuring rock bands. Virgil scrunch up at the Minnesota Bureau show signs of Criminal Apprehension (BCA).

Prior take it easy the BCA he was birdcage the Army and the personnel police, then the police hobble Saint Paul. Lucas Davenport, clue character of the Prey stack of books, recruited him hoist the BCA. Virgil is peter out avid outdoorsman who loves representation and is often towing enthrone boat, even when on job. He is also a author for outdoor and hunting magazines as well as a artist.

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  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 dinky 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 spick prominent role in Toxic Prey.

Other fiction books

Short stories

  • "Lucy Challenging a List." Published in Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Deception, and Other Deadly Handicaps deprive Today's Great Writers (2006), straight short story anthology by well-known authors, the fourth title get in touch with the sports mystery series reject a delete by Otto Penzler.

    ISBN 0-89296-017-5

Nonfiction books

Awards and nominations

  • 1986, Pulitzer Prize energy Feature. Series of articles make a statement Farming Family. Pioneer Press Dispatch
  • 1986 Distinguished Writing Award. American Native land of Newspaper Editors.

References

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