John Sandford

John Sandford is the pen name of John Camp (February 23, 1944 - ), Pulitzer-winning reporter, who decided to branch out into crime novels. Unusually, he had two debut novels, The Fool's Run featuring Kidd, a computer hacker, and Rules of Prey featuring Lucas Davenport, a hard-nosed detective. To avoid the gaffe of having two debut novels and to appease the two separate publishers he'd sold the stories to, he published Rules of Prey under a pen name of John Sandford and The Fool's Run under John Camp, his real name. Currently, all of his books are released under his pen name. He has a website run by his son which includes a substantial amount of reference material on what went into individual stories and how they evolved.

His fiction works include:

The Prey Series featuring Lucas Davenport

 * Rules of Prey
 * Shadow Prey
 * Eyes of Prey
 * Silent Prey
 * Winter Prey
 * Night Prey
 * Mind Prey
 * Sudden Prey
 * Secret Prey
 * Certain Prey
 * Easy Prey
 * Chosen Prey
 * Mortal Prey
 * Naked Prey
 * Hidden Prey
 * Broken Prey
 * Invisible Prey
 * Phantom Prey
 * Wicked Prey
 * Storm Prey
 * Buried Prey

The Kidd Series featuring Kidd

 * The Fool's Run
 * The Empress File
 * The Devil's Code
 * The Hanged Man's Song

The Virgil Flowers Series featuring Virgil Flowers

 * Dark of the Moon
 * Heat Lightning
 * Rough Country
 * Bad Blood
 * Shock Wave

Standalone books

 * The Night Crew
 * Dead Watch