![]() ![]() This book combines two of my favorite characters Davenport and Flowers. There is something about the unique structure, the voice that just pulls this reader in and doesn’t let go. I’ve read all his of his Davenport and Virgil Flowers books multiple times. But let me say I am a little biased, for this genre Sanford is my number one go-to. With Ocean Prey, Sanford is back, what a great read. The last few of Sanford have been good but not quite up to some of his really spectacular books. Sometimes a series can wane or diminish in story, character and voice, the author getting tired of writing the same old thing. His wife, Susan, died of metastasized breast cancer in May, 2007, and is greatly missed.Įxcellent read, loved this one. He has two children, Roswell and Emily, and one grandson, Benjamin. He is the principal financial backer of a major archeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel, with a website at In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography. He's also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. From 1990 to the present he has written thriller novels. 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. He was a reporter for The Miami Herald from 1971-78, and then a reporter for the St. 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. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. John Sandford was born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is part of the "Prey" series but Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers share the billing it is considered the most recent in both series. The latest for each, "Ocean Prey," was published in April 2021. Librarian's note: as of 2021, there are 31 volumes in John Sandford's Lucas Davenport "Prey" series and 13 in his "Virgil Flowers" series. The case turns even more lethal and Davenport needs to bring in every asset he can find, including a detective with a fundamentally criminal mind: Virgil Flowers. When the FBI's investigation stalls out, Lucas Davenport of the U.S. They're federal officers killed on the job, which means the case is the FBI's turf. ![]() None of it makes sense unless there's something hinky going on, and his hunch is proven correct when all three Guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed. a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver. An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family in the Atlantic just off south Florida when he sees, and then calls in, some suspicious behavior in a nearby boat. ![]()
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