Army where he served for 2 years in Korea and first started journalist work as an Army reporter. He attended public high schools and graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in 19 respectively.Īfter graduating he enlisted in the U.S. John Roswell Camp was born in 1944 in Iowa, the grandson of two Lithuanian immigrants. In addition to his fictional work, which predominantly centers around crime and investigative fiction, Sandford has written two non-fiction books, The Eye and the Heart: The Watercolors of John Stuart Ingle and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut, which give you some insight into his interests outside of writing. He maintains his work in the field of journalism but having written 52 successful novels is now best known as an author.Īll of his novels have appeared on the New York Times bestseller lists in some way or another – many of the Prey novels have made it to the #1 spot. John Sandford is the pseudonym used by John Roswell Camp, who started off as a journalist and even won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his contributions to journalism. This article will demonstrate how to read these series in their entirety, predominantly focusing on Prey but will first tell you a little more about Sandford himself. These are the two series he is predominantly known for but as you will find out, he has written a plethora of other works too. John Sandford has written 32 books in his Prey series and an additional 12 in the similar, often overlapping Virgil Flowers series. He works against some intelligent and cunning villains and must breach the boundaries of the rulebook in order to outsmart them. The protagonist is an efficient, sometimes arrogant, wealthy detective and womanizer.
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