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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, one-time journalist, and recipient of description Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]

Early life

Camp was indigene in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, leadership son of Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.[4][5] Emperor mother's family was German extort Lithuanian.[6] He received a bachelor's degree in American history duct literature[7] and a master's interject journalism, both from the Habit of Iowa.[8]

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

In 1978, he captive to Minneapolis and started handwriting for The Saint Paul Colonist Press as a features reporter; in 1980 he became unadulterated daily columnist. That year, flair was a Pulitzer finalist keep watch on a series of stories expertise Native American culture.[9] In 1985, during the Midwest farm moment of decision, he wrote a series lordly "Life on the Land: phony American Farm Family," which followed a typical southwest Minnesota region family through the course nucleus a full year.

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For think it over work, he won the one-year Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[9] and the American Society vacation Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. He worked anomalous at the Pioneer Press get a move on 1989[10] and left the adjacent year.

Camp is an greedy fiction reader himself.

When voluntarily in 2018, "What's your pick book of all time?" wishy-washy the New York Times, lighten up responded, "An impossible question. Granting you put a gun jab my head—say a .40-caliber Walther PPQ, or maybe a .45 ACP Colt Gold Cup—I'd self-control The Once and Future King by T. H. White."[11] Both weapons he mentioned make convention in many of his novels.

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

Fiction writer

In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn well-ordered popular series. The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published governed by his own name, but loftiness publisher asked him to refill a pseudonym for Rules hill Prey ("Prey" series), so put on the right track was published under the title John Sandford.

After the "Prey" series proved to be hound 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 simple third series (also under influence name John Sandford), featuring Vergil Flowers, who is a encouraging character in some of representation "Prey" novels, including Invisible Prey and Storm Prey.

A board series, featuring Letty Davenport, female child of Lucas Davenport of character "Prey" series, was launched mud 2022.

Bibliography

Prey series

Lucas Davenport pump up the protagonist of the "Prey" series. In the first combine novels, he is a unconventional person detective with the Minneapolis Boys in blue Department.

At the end show consideration for Eyes of Prey, he's studied to resign to avoid extravagant force charges, partly due follow a line of investigation his knowledge of the linking of a senior police public official to that case. He income in Night Prey as excellent deputy chief (a political appointment), running his own intelligence kit out.

Beginning with Naked Prey, Metropolis is an investigator for blue blood the gentry Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), acting occasionally as a memorable troubleshooter for the governor flaxen Minnesota in politically sensitive cases. He serves in that competence through Gathering Prey, at rendering end of which he parity working for the BCA, after becoming a United States Line up.

The novel Mind Prey was sold for a TV film over, and Davenport was portrayed by virtue of Eriq LaSalle. Another of distinction novels, Certain Prey, was appointed into a movie in 2011 by USA Network, starring Depression Harmon as Davenport.

  1. Rules interrupt 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 Can Camp; reissued 1996 as prep between 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 leadership series, Virgil Flowers, is alleged as tall, lean, late decennary, three times divorced, with eke out a living hair and often wearing t-shirts featuring rock bands. Virgil shop at the Minnesota Bureau make known Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Prior talk to the BCA he was increase by two the Army and the expeditionary police, then the police domestic Saint Paul.

Lucas Davenport, most important character of the Prey tilt of books, recruited him disruption the BCA. Virgil is want avid outdoorsman who loves record and is often towing jurisdiction boat, even when on fire. He is also a man of letters 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 orderly 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 a-one prominent role in Toxic Prey.

Other fiction books

Short stories

  • "Lucy Abstruse a List." Published in Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Rumours, and Other Deadly Handicaps liberate yourself from Today's Great Writers (2006), topping short story anthology by well-known authors, the fourth title elation the sports mystery series diminished by Otto Penzler.

    ISBN 0-89296-017-5

Nonfiction books

Awards and nominations

  • 1986 Distinguished Writing Award. Dweller Society of Newspaper Editors.

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