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John Sandford

Born

in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The United States

February 23, 1944

Website

http://www.johnsandford.org/

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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John Sandford is the pen name of John Roswell Camp, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author known for his gripping thrillers and popular crime series. After earning degrees in history, literature, and journalism from the University of Iowa, Camp began his writing career as a reporter, first at The Miami Herald and later at The Saint Paul Pioneer Press, where he earned critical acclaim for in-depth series on Native American communities and American farm life. His work won him the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1986.
In 1989, Camp transitioned into fiction, publishing two novels: The Fool's Run under his real name and Rules of Prey under the pseudonym John Sandford. The latter launched the long-running “Prey” series, ...more

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Average rating: 4.2 · 1,513,421 ratings · 74,576 reviews · 234 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 94,114 ratings — published 1989 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Prey (Lucas Davenport, #5) 4.25 avg rating — 47,101 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark of the Moon (Virgil Flowers, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42,982 ratings — published 2007 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buried Prey (Lucas Davenport, #21) 4.27 avg rating — 39,932 ratings — published 2011 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ocean Prey (Lucas Davenport #31, Virgil Flowers #13) 4.38 avg rating — 36,832 ratings — published 2021 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Investigator (Letty Davenport, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 33,987 ratings — published 2022 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chosen Prey (Lucas Davenport, #12) 4.24 avg rating — 32,316 ratings — published 2001 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Blood (Virgil Flowers, #4) 4.22 avg rating — 32,118 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eyes of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #3) 4.19 avg rating — 31,766 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Prey (Lucas Davenport, #9) 4.29 avg rating — 30,384 ratings — published 1998 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.”
― John Sandford, Bad Blood

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“Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.”
― John Sandford, Rough Country

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“Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers]
Dark of the Moon, p.7”
― John Sandford

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Voting for February 2019 Group Read - Title starts with "R"

The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

13 votes, 34.2%

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

6 votes, 15.8%

Runaway by Peter May

4 votes, 10.5%

The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne

4 votes, 10.5%

Rules of Prey by John Sandford

3 votes, 7.9%

The Red Hunter by Lisa Unger

2 votes, 5.3%

Risk by Dick Francis

2 votes, 5.3%

Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic

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The Red Cobra by Rob Sinclair

1 vote, 2.6%

The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong

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Reversible Errors by Scott Turow

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