John Sandford
John Sandford was born John Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. He was in the U.S. Army from 1966-68, worked as a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian from 1968-1970, and went back to the University of Iowa from 1970-1971, where he received a master's degree in journalism. He was a reporter for The Miami Herald from 1971-78, and then a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer-Press from 1978-1990; in 1980, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he won the Pulitzer in 1986 for a series of stories about a midwestern farm crisis. From 1990 to the present he has written thriller novels. He's also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. He is the principal financial backer of a major archaeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel, with a website at www.rehov.org. In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography. He both hunts and fishes. He has two children, Roswell and Emily, and one grandson, Benjamin. His wife, Susan, died of metastasized breast cancer in May, 2007, and is greatly missed.
Deep Freeze, Golden Prey, and cancer. And snakes. https://t.co/TPyauti4h0
— John Sandford (@J_Sandford)
Books by John Sandford
Escape Clause (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
Release Date: 04 Oct 2016
Price: $11.76
Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are pure reading pleasure (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minn...more
Extreme Prey
Release Date: 26 Apr 2016
Price: $5.39
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1New York Timesbestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situationno longer employed by the ...more
Saturn Run
Release Date: 06 Oct 2015
Price: $0.00
Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up. --Stephen King For fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Timesbestselling and Pulitzer Prizewinning author John Sandford and internationally kn...more
Parochialia or Church, School, and Parish: The Church System, and Services, Practically Considered (Classic Reprint)
Release Date: 16 Jul 2015
Price: $18.27
Excerpt from Parochialia or Church, School, and Parish: The Church System, and Services, Practically Considered Publishers of this work beg to state that it is private property, protected by the late Copyright Act, the 5 to 6 Victoria, c.45. They be...more
Outrage (The Singular Menace, 2)
Release Date: 14 Jul 2015
Price: $2.99
John Sandford and Michele Cook follow up their New York Times bestseller, UNCAGED, with the next nail-bitinginstallment in The Singular Menace series. Perfect for fans of The Maze Runner! Shay Remby and her gang of renegades have struck a blow to ...more
Field of Prey
Release Date: 07 May 2015
Price: $4.46
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He'd picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and ...more
Uncaged (The Singular Menace, 1)
Release Date: 28 Apr 2015
Price: $2.85
A New York Times bestseller! John Sandford and Michele Cook debut a high-octane thriller series about a ruthless corporation, unspeakable experiments, and a fight to expose the truth. Perfect for fans of James Dashner's The Maze Runner. Shay R...more
Gathering Prey
Release Date: 28 Apr 2015
Price: $1.08
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Timesbestselling author and Pulitzer Prizewinner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimesthey just like to stay on the mov...more
Gathering Prey: Prey (The Prey Series Book 25)
Release Date: 28 Apr 2015
Price: $0.00
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Timesbestselling author and Pulitzer Prizewinner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimesthey just like to stay on the mov...more
Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport)
Release Date: 07 Apr 2015
Price: $3.43
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford continues his phenomenal Prey seriesand for those who think they know everything they need to know about Lucas Davenport, [Field of Prey] proves them wrong (Huffington Post) On the night of the fift...more
Certain Prey (A Lucas Davenport Novel)
Release Date: 02 Dec 2014
Price: $5.84
One of [the] best (Orlando Sentinel) Lucas Davenport Novelsnowwith a New Introduction by the Author. Clara Rinker is twenty-eight, beautiful, charmingly southernand the best hit woman in the business. She just goes about her business, collects...more
Deadline (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
Release Date: 07 Oct 2014
Price: $2.41
The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Timesbestselling series. In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personn...more
Storm Front (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
Release Date: 30 Sep 2014
Price: $2.70
#1 New York Times Bestseller An ancient relic is unearthed during an archaeological dig. A Minnesota college professor is keeping a secret that could change the worlds history as we know it. For Virgil Flowers, the link between the two is ines...more
Chosen Prey (A Lucas Davenport Novel)
Release Date: 02 Sep 2014
Price: $5.92
He seems like such a nice man. Youd never guess what was going on in his mind Art history professor James Qatar has a hobby: he takes secret photographs of women to fuel more elaborate fantasies. When hes alone. Behind locked doors. Then one da...more
Silken Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel
Release Date: 06 May 2014
Price: $3.22
Murder. Scandal. Politics. And one billionaire heiress so dangerous in so many ways. Its the explosive new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. All hell has broken loose in the capital. An influential s...more
Secret Prey
Release Date: 05 Nov 2013
Price: $5.09
A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this routine murder investigation is about to tu...more
Mad River (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
Release Date: 01 Oct 2013
Price: $2.99
They were average kids looking for something to do. Today they started killing people. A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are on the run through rural Minnesotavictim by victim theyre having the time of their lives. But when Bureau of Criminal Apprehen...more
Stolen Prey
Release Date: 30 Apr 2013
Price: $2.49
The brilliant Lucas Davenport thriller from the number one New York Times bestselling author. Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killedhus...more
Sudden Prey
Release Date: 06 Nov 2012
Price: $5.09
The crime spree should have ended when Lucas Davenport killed the female bank robber during the shoot-out. But its just beginning, because the womans husband isnt about to let Lucasor anyone he lovesescape retribution. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE A...more
Shock Wave (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
Release Date: 02 Oct 2012
Price: $4.49
A billion-dollar superstore has its sights set on a small Minnesota river town for its next outlet. Two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protest...more
Buried Prey
Release Date: 01 May 2012
Price: $2.99
For twenty-five years the unsolved kidnapping of two young girls has haunted Minneapolis homicide detective Lucas Davenport. Today, the bodies have been found. Today, he returns to a crimeand a nightmaredarker than any before.more
Mind Prey
Release Date: 01 Nov 2011
Price: $4.95
Lucas Davenport has met his match-a brilliant, wanton killer who knows more about mind games than Lucas himself. This man is more depraved and intelligent than anybody Lucas has tracked before-and with a female psychiatrist in his trap, he's already...more
Bad Blood (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
Release Date: 27 Sep 2011
Price: $3.34
Two bodies in two days. One is murder. The other is suicide. Virgil Flowers never imagined that discovering the connection would lead him into the perverse history of the Minnesota farm community, and almost unimaginable darkness.more
Storm Prey
Release Date: 26 Apr 2011
Price: $4.01
When a simple robbery turns deadly, the thieves close in on the only witness: Lucas Davenport's wife... more
Night Prey
Release Date: 02 Nov 2010
Price: $5.09
A savage psychopath is playing cat and mouse with Lucas Davenport. But both killer and detective find themselves at odds with a female investigator who has intensely personal reasons for catching the killer herself-and fast. more
Rough Country (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
Release Date: 28 Sep 2010
Price: $4.95
The murder of a successful advertising executive leads Detective Virgil Flowers to the unlikely scene of the crime: a peaceful and bucolic wooded resort. But one with as many suspects as it has secrets. more
Wicked Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 19)
Release Date: 04 May 2010
Price: $2.10
For twenty years, John Sandford's novels have been beloved for their "ingenious plots, vivid characters, crisp dialogue and endless surprises" (The Washington Post), and nowhere are those more in evidence than in the sudden twists and shocks of Wic...more
Winter Prey
Release Date: 03 Nov 2009
Price: $4.33
It's the dead of winter, and a killer like no other is turning a small Wisconsin town into a death trap-one that's closing in on Lucas Davenport. more
Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, No. 2)
Release Date: 06 Oct 2009
Price: $5.09
A killer is leaving a puzzling calling card in the mouths of his victims. And in the middle of a steamy Minnesota summer, Virgil Flowers of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension finds himself embroiled in an investigation with no easy answers?and no easy...more
Phantom Prey
Release Date: 05 May 2009
Price: $2.20
A wealthy widow returns to her large home in an exclusive Minneapolis suburb to find blood everywhere, no body - and her student daughter missing. Instantly, she suspects the involvement of the weird Goth crowd her daughter had been hanging around wit...more
Silent Prey (Lucas Davenport, No 4)
Release Date: 28 Oct 2008
Price: $4.65
Make noise for a new Prey package and new author introduction! Dr. Mike Bekker, a psychotic pathologist, is back on the streets, doing what he does best?murdering one helpless victim after another. Lucas Davenport knows he should have killed Bekker w...more
Dark of the Moon (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
Release Date: 30 Sep 2008
Price: $2.85
Three murders in just as many weeks in the quiet rural town of Bluestream is unheard of. Its also no coincidence. And its not over: Detective Virgil Flowers is about to be pulled into the middle of a killers violent personal vendetta.more
Invisible Prey
Release Date: 29 Apr 2008
Price: $3.15
In the richest neighbourhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms ransacked, only small items stolen. It's clearly a random break-in by someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as he looks mor...more
Dead Watch (Night Watch)
Release Date: 24 Apr 2007
Price: $1.95
The #1 New York Timesbestselling author of the Lucas Davenport novels delivers a page-turner with a new hero, [and a] breakneck pace" (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Former Sen. Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting...more
Eyes of Prey
Release Date: 06 Mar 2007
Price: $3.89
Number-one New York Times bestselling author John Sandford pits Lieutenant Lucas Davenport against two killers, men as different as night and day-except in the method of their madness. It's all in the eyes...more
Broken Prey
Release Date: 02 May 2006
Price: $2.59
The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isnt a bad love a...more
Shadow Prey
Release Date: 07 Mar 2006
Price: $5.09
The #1 New York Times bestselling series. Lucas Davenport goes on a city-to-city search for a bizarre ritualistic killer. "Ice-pick chills...a double-pumped roundhouse of a thriller." Kirkus Reviews more
Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 1)
Release Date: 02 Aug 2005
Price: $5.08
The haunting, unforgettable, ice-blooded thriller that introduced Lucas Davenport is so chilling that you're almost afraid to turn the pages and so mesmerizing you cannot stop. more
Hidden Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 15)
Release Date: 26 Apr 2005
Price: $4.74
Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Oleshev is found sh...more
The Hanged Man's Song (Kidd)
Release Date: 28 Sep 2004
Price: $5.12
John Sandford author of the phenomenal Prey novels returns with The Hanged Man's Song. more
Naked Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 14)
Release Date: 04 May 2004
Price: $3.86
In Naked Prey, John Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special troubleshooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or pol...more
Mortal Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 13)
Release Date: 29 Apr 2003
Price: $3.74
Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the so...more
The Devil's Code (Kidd)
Release Date: 01 Oct 2001
Price: $3.68
When Kiddartist, computer whiz, and professional criminallearns of a colleagues murder, he doesnt buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. Its not what his friend was l...more
Easy Prey
Release Date: 01 Mar 2001
Price: $1.65
In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm thats demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, D...more
The Night Crew
Release Date: 01 Jun 1998
Price: $3.00
Bestselling author John Sandford takes all the action and suspense of his acclaimed Prey novels and heads west to the dark gleam of L.A.--where the Night Crew works. A mobile unit of video freelancers, they prowl the midnight streets to sell to the hig...more
The Fool's Run (Kidd)
Release Date: 01 Dec 1996
Price: $3.00
John Sandford, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Prey novels gives suspense an ingenious twist as he takes readers into the mind games of two irresistible con artists plotting the perfect sting Kidd is a computer whiz, artist, and pr...more
Three Complete Novels: Rules of Prey / Shadow Prey / Eyes of Prey
Release Date: 16 Nov 1995
Price: $67.40
A low-priced omnibus edition collects three suspenseful thrillers--complete and unabridged--from the author's popular Prey series, featuring the engaging and iconoclastic detective, Lucas Davenport.more
The Empress File (Kidd)
Release Date: 01 Nov 1992
Price: $3.89
The ultimate con game thriller from the bestselling master of suspense, featuring the con artist team of Kidd and LuEllen. more
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