John Sandford novels

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I've read every one that I could get my hands on over the years. Have lost count, too often I've read them more than once.
 
Texas Star said:
I've followed John Sandford's "Prey" series of detective books for years.

Just bought, "Extreme Prey" and, "Golden Prey."

Haven't read them yet, but about 30 pages in on the first , looks good. He hasn't lost his touch.

Anyone else here read his books?
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I've read them all many times. Golden Prey is very good. Extreme Prey didn't appeal to me all that much. Gathering Prey is one of his best, in my opinion.

He's a very generous man. I photographed him in May of this year.

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I have read a couple, but never bonded. If I was stuck in a cabin with a pile of them, I would read them, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get them.

Yeah, that's him. His real name is John Camp. He used to be a columnist for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. I read him, but not faithfully. Lived for a number of years in a small city I represented. He always seemed to be a decent enough guy. He has done very well for himself with his books.
 
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He's moved from MN to New Mexico. I wonder if it'll affect his plots in future.

He's a liberal, but does hunt and fish. Real name is John Camp.

Amazon has excerpts and reviews of his books.
 
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Watchdog said:
I've read them all many times. Golden Prey is very good. Extreme Prey didn't appeal to me all that much. Gathering Prey is one of his best, in my opinion.

He's a very generous man. I photographed him in May of this year.

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That's a good photo and background. I'm impressed. Had you gotten him to adjust his coat collar, he might have used that pic on a book cover.
 
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I just got hold of Gathering Prey but I've got about 30 more pages in Night School by Lee Child (Reacher novel) be fore I start it. Looking forward to that. And I'll be getting around to Golden Prey and Extreme Prey ASAP.

The pics I see of him on the dust covers of his books perfectly match what I imagine Lucas Davenport would look like if he were real. His general appearance especially his facial expression seem to be that of a rich but somewhat jaded homicide detective. He looks like he would not go looking for **** but he would certainly not take any and would not run from it. It would be your worst, last mistake to mess with him. Yep...he baaad! :D

Edit to add that I have also enjoyed his Virgil Flowers books.

Soime other very good writers in this genre are Micdhael Connelley, James Lee Burk and Robert Crais (pronounced Cray)
 
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Walkin' Jack said:
I just got hold of Gathering Prey but I've got about 30 more pages in Night School by Lee Child (Reacher novel) be fore I start it. Looking forward to that. And I'll be getting around to Golden Prey and Extreme Prey ASAP.

The pics I see of him on the dust covers of his books perfectly match what I imagine Lucas Davenport would look like if he were real. His general appearance especially his facial expression seem to be that of a rich but somewhat jaded homicide detective. He looks like he would not go looking for **** but he would certainly not take any and would not run from it. It would be your worst, last mistake to mess with him. Yep...he baaad! :D

Edit to add that I have also enjoyed his Virgil Flowers books.

Soime other very good writers in this genre are Micdhael Connelley, James Lee Burk and Robert Crais (pronounced Cray)
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Actually, I've always pictured Davenport as looking like a certain former Dallas city manager. The darkness...

And Davenport has that scar on his forehead and looks like the former hockey player he was. Six feet, 200 lbs.

If you look at the cover of the hardback ed. of David Lindsey's, In the Lake of the Moon, you'll see a picture VERY like my doctor. She was amazed when she looked it up. Thought I was just flirting. Check it out on the Net.
 
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I have read them all and the Virgil Flowers and Kidd series as well. He did a si-fi with another author I got from the library that was well done also.
 
Virgil Flowers is okay. He's too much of a laid back semi hippie for my tastes. Can't even keep his gun on him sometimes.

I prefer Davenport, and I like his college student stepdaughter. That girl is smart and has pluck.
 
Enjoy the reads, like well done mind candy. Never disappointing but for me quickly forgettable. The female half is always well represented and demanding of respect and the recurring characters and their quirks make for good filler.


I've read one of the Kidd novels, Devil's Code, the 2nd of his and did not care much for the story... not sure why, maybe trying too hard to portray an anti antihero. Finished the book, perhaps if I see the first I'll give it a try.
 
Targets Guy said:
I've got the first three "Prey" novels on my Amazon wish list. You guys had better be right.
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Rules of Prey, the first in the series, may seem a bit dated in parts, but it's a fast paced novel, so you don't notice that all that much. It was published twenty-eight years ago, after all, and there have been hundreds of books written about serial killers since then.

Shadow Prey holds up remarkably well, and is one of my favorites. Eyes of Prey is genuinely creepy.

You should enjoy the books, especially if you're going to read them in chronological order. Reading them in order allows you to see the development of the Lucas Davenport character, along with that of the supporting characters.

It might also interest you to know, since you live in Iowa, that John Sandford is originally from that state. Iowa is often mentioned in his books, though not always in a positive manner.

John Sandford won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 1986 for his series about the farm crisis of the eighties, and how one family endured it.
 
Texas Star said:
Virgil Flowers is okay. He's too much of a laid back semi hippie for my tastes. Can't even keep his gun on him sometimes.
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It isn't as if he "can't" keep his gun on him, or that he forgets to carry it. He often chooses not to keep it on. Virgil really doesn't want to shoot anyone.

Virgil is sort of laid back, but that doesn't make him any less effective. He's also subject to fits of temper and behavior that might be considered just outside the law. Unlike Davenport, he's an Army veteran, a former military policeman. Lucas Davenport is really a thinly-veiled killer, himself...Flowers is not.

It wouldn't have made much sense (especially from a commercial standpoint) for Sandford to have created a Davenport clone for a separate series of thrillers.
 
I think I have read them all. That's no big deal, because he really only has one plot, he just changes the scenery and his agency once in a while. Now he's a U.S. Marshal who can pick his own assignments? Yeah, don't see that happenin' any time soon.
 
Lt JL said:
I think I have read them all. That's no big deal, because he really only has one plot, he just changes the scenery and his agency once in a while. Now he's a U.S. Marshal who can pick his own assignments? Yeah, don't see that happenin' any time soon.
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Speaking of one plot that varies with the scenery, do you read Jack Higgins's books? I mean those featuring Sean Dillon and that cast.
 
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