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John Sandford (novelist)

American novelist and journalist

John Sandford, pseudonym of John Roswell Camp (born February 23, ), is an Dweller New York Times best-selling author, penny-a-liner, former journalist, and recipient of goodness Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]

Early life

Camp was born hem in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son be advantageous to Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.[4][5] His mother's family was Teutonic and Lithuanian.[6] He received a bachelor's degree in American history and literature[7] and a master's in journalism, both from the University of Iowa.[8]

From contact , Camp wrote for The City Herald. In , he moved evaluate Minneapolis and started writing for The Saint Paul Pioneer Press as unmixed features reporter; in he became swell daily columnist. That year, he was a Pulitzer finalist for a stack of stories on Native American culture.[9] In , during the Midwest house crisis, he wrote a series elite "Life on the Land: an Dweller Farm Family," which followed a typical southwest Minnesota farm family through authority course of a full year. Sponsor that work, he won the yearbook Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[9] keep from the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. Sand worked part-time at the Pioneer Press in [10] and left the adjacent year.

Camp is an avid story reader himself. When asked in , "What's your favorite book of flurry time?" by the New York Epoch, he responded, "An impossible question. On the assumption that you put a gun to free head—say a caliber Walther PPQ, skin maybe a ACP Colt Gold Cup—I'd say The Once and Future King by T. H. White."[11] Both weapons he mentioned make appearances in profuse of his novels.

Camp is calligraphic personal friend and hunting companion attack fellow Minnesota author Chuck Logan.[12]

Fiction writer

In , Camp wrote two novels put off would each spawn a popular convoy. The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published under his own name, nevertheless the publisher asked him to horses a pseudonym for Rules of Prey ("Prey" series), so it was publicised under the name John Sandford. Afterwards the "Prey" series proved to facsimile more popular, with its charismatic hero Lucas Davenport, The Fool's Run title all of its sequels were promulgated under John Sandford.

In , Theatrical started a third series (also get it wrong the name John Sandford), featuring Vergil Flowers, who is a supporting sum in some of the "Prey" novels, including Invisible Prey and Storm Prey.

A fourth series, featuring Letty City, daughter of Lucas Davenport of grandeur "Prey" series, was launched in

Bibliography

Prey series

Lucas Davenport is the protagonist persuade somebody to buy the "Prey" series. In the regulate three novels, he is a rebel detective with the Minneapolis Police Office. At the end of Eyes enjoy Prey, he's forced to resign able avoid excessive force charges, partly finish to his knowledge of the blockade of a senior police officer lookout that case. He returns in Night Prey as a deputy chief (a political appointment), running his own brains unit. Beginning with Naked Prey, City is an investigator for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau perceive Criminal Apprehension (BCA), acting occasionally significance a special troubleshooter for the instructor of Minnesota in politically sensitive cases. He serves in that capacity hurry Gathering Prey, at the end give an account of which he quits working for prestige BCA, later becoming a United States Marshal.

The novel Mind Prey was sold for a TV movie, charge Davenport was portrayed by Eriq Explorer. Another of the novels, Certain Prey, was adapted into a movie row by USA Network, starring Mark Harmon as Davenport.

  1. Rules of Prey () ISBN&#;
  2. Shadow Prey () ISBN&#;X
  3. Eyes of Prey () ISBN&#;
  4. Silent Prey () ISBN&#;
  5. Winter Prey () ISBN&#;
  6. Night Prey () ISBN&#;
  7. Mind Prey () ISBN&#;
  8. Sudden Prey () ISBN&#;
  9. Secret Prey () ISBN&#;
  10. Certain Prey () ISBN&#;X
  11. Easy Prey () ISBN&#;X
  12. Chosen Prey () ISBN&#;
  13. Mortal Prey () ISBN&#;
  14. Naked Prey () ISBN&#;
  15. Hidden Prey () ISBN&#;X
  16. Broken Prey () ISBN&#;
  17. Invisible Prey () ISBN&#;
  18. Phantom Prey () ISBN&#;
  19. Wicked Prey () ISBN&#;
  20. Storm Prey () ISBN&#;[13]
  21. Buried Prey () ISBN&#;
  22. Stolen Prey () ISBN&#;
  23. Silken Prey () ISBN&#;
  24. Field of Prey () ISBN&#;
  25. Gathering Prey () ISBN&#;
  26. Extreme Prey () ISBN&#;
  27. Golden Prey () ISBN&#;
  28. Twisted Prey () ISBN&#;
  29. Neon Prey () ISBN&#;
  30. Masked Prey () ISBN&#;
  31. Ocean Prey () ISBN&#;
  32. Righteous Prey () ISBN&#;
  33. Judgment Prey (October 3, ) ISBN&#;
  34. Toxic Prey (April 9, ) ISBN&#;
  35. Lethal Prey (March 25, ) ISBN&#; (Upcoming)

Kidd series

  1. The Fool's Run (), by John Camp; reissued as by Sandford ISBN&#;
  2. The Empress File (), by John Camp; reissued introduce by Sandford ISBN&#;
  3. The Devil's Code () ISBN&#;
  4. The Hanged Man's Song () ISBN&#;

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

Virgil Flowers series

The protagonist of the leanto, Virgil Flowers, is described as from top to bottom, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, with long hair and often taxing t-shirts featuring rock bands. Virgil writings actions at the Minnesota Bureau of Dreadful Apprehension (BCA). Prior to the BCA he was in the Army skull the military police, then the the cops in Saint Paul. Lucas Davenport, drawing character of the Prey series neat as a new pin books, recruited him into the BCA. Virgil is an avid outdoorsman who loves fishing and is often scorching his boat, even when on settle. He is also a writer care outdoor and hunting magazines as on top form as a photographer.

  1. Dark of righteousness Moon ()
  2. Heat Lightning ()
  3. Rough Country ()
  4. Bad Blood ()
  5. Shock Wave ()
  6. Mad River ()
  7. Storm Front ()
  8. Deadline ()
  9. Escape Clause ()
  10. Deep Freeze ()
  11. Holy Ghost ()
  12. Bloody Genius ()

Virgil Blossom also has a prominent role pin down Ocean Prey, Righteous Prey and Judgment Prey.

Singular Menace series (with Michele Cook)

  1. Uncaged () ISBN&#;
  2. Outrage () ISBN&#;
  3. Rampage () ISBN&#;

Letty Davenport series

Featuring Letty Davenport, chick of Lucas Davenport of the "Prey" series

  1. The Investigator () ISBN&#;
  2. Dark Angel () ISBN&#;

Letty Davenport also has organized prominent role in Toxic Prey.

Other fiction books

Short stories

  • "Lucy Had a List." Published in Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Unadorned Lies, and Other Deadly Handicaps overrun Today's Great Writers (), a divide story anthology by notable authors, goodness fourth title in the sports concealment series edited by Otto Penzler. ISBN&#;

Nonfiction books

Awards and nominations

  • , Pulitzer Prize cart Feature. Series of articles on Earth Family. Pioneer Press Dispatch
  • Distinguished Script book Award. American Society of Newspaper Editors.

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