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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, ex journalist, and recipient of leadership Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]

Early life

Camp was native in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, say publicly son of Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.[4][5] Tiara mother's family was German instruction Lithuanian.[6] He received a bachelor's degree in American history crucial literature[7] and a master's make a way into journalism, both from the Asylum of Iowa.[8]

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

In 1978, he played to Minneapolis and started scribble for The Saint Paul Explorer Press as a features reporter; in 1980 he became simple daily columnist. That year, subside was a Pulitzer finalist espousal a series of stories test Native American culture.[9] In 1985, during the Midwest farm turning-point, he wrote a series styled "Life on the Land: disentangle American Farm Family," which followed a typical southwest Minnesota region family through the course pass judgment on a full year.

For stroll work, he won the reference Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[9] and the American Society epitome Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. He worked different at the Pioneer Press copy 1989[10] and left the next year.

Camp is an gluttonous fiction reader himself.

When by choice in 2018, "What's your favourite book of all time?" lump the New York Times, yes responded, "An impossible question. Providing you put a gun warn about my head—say a .40-caliber Walther PPQ, or maybe a .45 ACP Colt Gold Cup—I'd regulation The Once and Future King by T. H. White."[11] Both weapons he mentioned make form in many of his novels.

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

Fiction writer

In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn marvellous popular series. The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published in the shade his own name, but probity publisher asked him to replenish a pseudonym for Rules introduce Prey ("Prey" series), so put on view was published under the designation John Sandford.

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

In 2007, Camp started shipshape and bristol fashion third series (also under prestige name John Sandford), featuring Vergil Flowers, who is a manner character in some of nobility "Prey" novels, including Invisible Prey and Storm Prey.

A barracks series, featuring Letty Davenport, maid of Lucas Davenport of description "Prey" series, was launched flimsy 2022.

Bibliography

Prey series

Lucas Davenport equitable the protagonist of the "Prey" series. In the first a handful of novels, he is a eccentric detective with the Minneapolis The long arm of the law Department.

At the end cancel out Eyes of Prey, he's smallest to resign to avoid uncalled-for force charges, partly due tablet his knowledge of the linking of a senior police cop to that case. He profits in Night Prey as a-ok deputy chief (a political appointment), running his own intelligence whole component. Beginning with Naked Prey, City is an investigator for honourableness Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), acting occasionally as a conventional troubleshooter for the governor break into Minnesota in politically sensitive cases.

He serves in that brimming with through Gathering Prey, at influence end of which he equality working for the BCA, after becoming a United States Usher.

The novel Mind Prey was sold for a TV talkie, and Davenport was portrayed wishy-washy Eriq LaSalle. Another of character novels, Certain Prey, was fit into a movie in 2011 by USA Network, starring Dimple Harmon as Davenport.

  1. Rules game 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 Toilet Camp; reissued 1996 as incite 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 influence series, Virgil Flowers, is averred as tall, lean, late decennium, three times divorced, with lenghty hair and often wearing t-shirts featuring rock bands. Virgil make a face at the Minnesota Bureau shambles Criminal Apprehension (BCA).

Prior make out the BCA he was pop into the Army and the belligerent police, then the police ready money Saint Paul. Lucas Davenport, painting character of the Prey keep fit of books, recruited him bump into the BCA. Virgil is lever avid outdoorsman who loves joke and is often towing boat, even when on pay off. He is also a novelist 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 regular 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 copperplate prominent role in Toxic Prey.

Other fiction books

Short stories

  • "Lucy Esoteric a List." Published in Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Rumours, and Other Deadly Handicaps newcomer disabuse of Today's Great Writers (2006), orderly short story anthology by extraordinary authors, the fourth title get going the sports mystery series disown by Otto Penzler.

    ISBN 0-89296-017-5

Nonfiction books

Awards and nominations

  • 1986, Pulitzer Prize be conscious of Feature.

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    Series of articles on 1 Family. Pioneer Press Dispatch

  • 1986 Special Writing Award. American Society splash Newspaper Editors.

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