John Sandford (novelist)#Prey series

Camp was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son of Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2285800019/camp-john-1944.html|title=Camp, John 1944–}}{{cite web|url=http://chippewa.com/news/local/obituaries/anne-b-camp/article_5dc6c4b7-f914-543e-a243-1884e2dc471e.html|title=Anne B. Camp|date=1 January 2014|work=Chippewa Herald}} He graduated from Cedar Rapids Washington High School in 1962. He received a bachelor's degree in American history and literature{{cite news |title=John Sandford: By the Book |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/books/review/john-sandford-by-the-book.html |access-date=7 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=15 November 2018}} and a master's in journalism, both from the University of Iowa.[http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-sandford-john.asp] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906222246/http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-sandford-john.asp|date=September 6, 2008}}

From 1971 to 1978, Camp wrote for The Miami Herald. In 1978, he moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota and started writing for The Saint Paul Pioneer Press as a general assignment reporter; in 1980 he became a daily columnist. That year, he was a Pulitzer finalist for a series of stories on Native American culture. In 1985, during the Midwest farm crisis, he wrote a series titled "Life on the Land: an American Farm Family," which followed a typical southwest Minnesota farm family through the course of a full year. For that work, he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/211 |title=The Pulitzer Prizes | Feature Writing |publisher=Pulitzer.org |access-date=2013-11-18}} and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. While working at the Pioneer Press, he wrote two non-fiction books, "The Eye and the Heart: The Watercolors of John Stuart Ingle" and "Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut," with University of Minnesota surgeon Bruce Cunningham. He worked part-time at the Pioneer Press in 1989{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LB&p_theme=lb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FCAE0E1E6C99FDE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Capturing His Prey |publisher=Nl.newsbank.com |access-date=2013-11-18}} and left the following year.

In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn a popular series. The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published under his own name, but the publisher asked him to provide a pseudonym for Rules of Prey ("Prey" series), so it was published under the name John Sandford. After the "Prey" series proved to be more popular, with its charismatic protagonist Lucas Davenport, The Fool's Run and all of its sequels were published under John Sandford.

In 2007, Camp started a third series (also under the name John Sandford), featuring Virgil Flowers, who is a supporting character in some of the "Prey" novels, including Invisible Prey and Storm Prey.

A fourth series, featuring Letty Davenport, daughter of Lucas Davenport of the "Prey" series, was launched in 2022.

All of Camp’s novels have appeared, in one format or another, on the New York Times bestseller list. Twenty-eight have debuted at #1 on the “Hardcover” or “Combined” lists.

Camp is an avid fiction reader himself. When asked in 2018, "What's your favorite book of all time?" by the New York Times, he responded, "An impossible question. If you put a gun to my head—say a .40-caliber Walther PPQ, or maybe a .45 ACP Colt Gold Cup—I'd say The Once and Future King by T. H. White."{{cite news |title=John Sandford: By the Book |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/books/review/john-sandford-by-the-book.html |access-date=7 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |agency=The New York Times |date=15 November 2018}} Both weapons he mentioned make appearances in many of his novels.

Camp is a personal friend and hunting companion of fellow Minnesota author Chuck Logan.{{cite news |title=Hunting 'Prey' On The Streets Of St. Paul, Minn. |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/08/17/158967617/hunting-prey-on-the-streets-of-st-paul-minn |access-date=7 February 2019 |work=NPR.org |publisher=National Public Radio |date=2012-08-17 |language=en}}

Lucas Davenport is the protagonist of the "Prey" series. In the first three novels, he is a maverick detective with the Minneapolis Police Department. At the end of Eyes of Prey, he's forced to resign to avoid excessive force charges, partly due to his knowledge of the connection of a senior police officer to that case. He returns in Night Prey as a deputy chief (a political appointment), running his own intelligence unit. Beginning with Naked Prey, Davenport is an investigator for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), acting occasionally as a special troubleshooter for the governor of Minnesota in politically sensitive cases. He serves in that capacity through Gathering Prey, at the end of which he quits working for the BCA, later becoming a United States Marshal.

The novel Mind Prey was sold for a TV movie, and Davenport was portrayed by Eriq LaSalle. Another of the novels, Certain Prey, was adapted into a movie in 2011 by USA Network, starring Mark Harmon as Davenport.

1. Rules of 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}}{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/11/AR2010071102848.html?hpid=sec-artsliving |title=Book review of John Sandford's "Storm Prey" |work=Washingtonpost.com |date=2010-07-12 |access-date=2013-11-18}}
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}}

1. The Fool's Run (1989), by John Camp; reissued 1996 as by 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.

The protagonist of the series, Virgil Flowers, is described as tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, with long hair and often wearing t-shirts featuring rock bands. Virgil works at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Prior to the BCA he was in the Army and the military police, then the police in Saint Paul. Lucas Davenport, main character of the Prey series of books, recruited him into the BCA. Virgil is an avid outdoorsman who loves fishing and is often towing his boat, even when on duty. He is also a writer for outdoor and hunting magazines as well as a photographer.

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 a prominent role in Ocean Prey, Righteous Prey and Judgment Prey.

1. Uncaged (2014) {{ISBN|0-385-75306-3}}
2. Outrage (2015) {{ISBN|0-385-75309-8}}
3. Rampage (2016) {{ISBN|0-385-75313-6}}

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

1. The Investigator (2022) {{ISBN|978-0593328682}}
2. Dark Angel (2023) {{ISBN|978-0593422410}}

Letty Davenport also has a prominent role in Toxic Prey.

• The Night Crew (1997) {{ISBN|0-399-14237-1}}
• Dead Watch (2006) {{ISBN|0-399-15354-3}}
• Saturn Run (with Ctein) science fiction (2015) {{ISBN|9780399176951}}; 0-399-17695-0

• "Lucy Had a List." Published in Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Lies, and Other Deadly Handicaps from Today's Great Writers (2006), a short story anthology by notable authors, the fourth title in the sports mystery series edited by Otto Penzler. {{ISBN|0-89296-017-5}}

• "Rhymes with Prey," co-written with Jeffery Deaver. Published in FaceOff (2014), a short-story anthology edited by David Baldacci, pitting famous thriller authors against each other. {{ISBN|978-1-4767-6206-7}}

• "Deserves to be Dead," co-written with Lisa Jackson. Published in MatchUp (2017), a short-story anthology edited by Lee Child, pairing male and female thriller writers. {{ISBN|978-1-5011-4159-1}}

• The Eye and the Heart (1988) {{ISBN|0-8478-0888-2}}
• Plastic Surgery (1989) {{ISBN|0-8050-0897-7}}

• 2019, "Thrillermaster" at Thrillerfest 2019. International Thriller Writers (ITW).

• 1986, Pulitzer Prize for Feature. Series of articles on Farming Family. Pioneer Press Dispatch

• 1986 Distinguished Writing Award. American Society of Newspaper Editors.

• 1980, Pulitzer Prize Nomination. Series of articles on Native Americans. St Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch

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• [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/john-sandford/ Fantastic Fiction Author Page]
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