The storyline spools out as a cat-and-mouse among the women and Davenport, with the villainesses dominating the action, sometimes in tangential scenes. Years later, the other femme fatale, sociopathic Minneapolis defense lawyer Carmel Loan, hires Rinker to kill the wife of property attorney Hale Allen, whom Carmel desires within days, she has Hale in bed. Clara Rinker's life as a murderer and mob hit woman begins when she is raped at age 16 and beats her assailant dead with a baseball bat. As if acknowledging his series' hero's unflashy demeanor, Sandford, in his 10th Prey book (after Secret Prey), allows two gleefully unrecalcitrant female antagonists to steal the show from Davenport. The vast popularity of the Prey novels is probably due, then, not so much to this dependable hero as to Sandford's clever plotting, sure pacing and fully rounded villains-as well as his smart prose. Parker's Spenser or James Patterson's Alex Cross. In 2007 Sandford started a third series featuring Virgil Flowers, who previously was a supporting character in Invisible Prey.For all his brooding, Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport lacks the charisma of, say, Robert B. After the Prey series proved to be more popular, with its charismatic protagonist Lucas Davenport, The Fool's Run and all of its subsequent sequels have been published under the "Sandford" name. The Fool's Run was published under the name "John Camp", but the publisher asked Camp to provide a pseudonym for Rules of Prey so it was published under the name "John Sandford". Both novels, The Fool's Run of the Kidd series and Rules of Prey of the Prey series, were accepted and due to be published three months apart.
In 1989 Camp wrote two novels that would become the first books of his two best-selling series. He stopped writing full-time for the Pioneer Press in 1989, although he didn't stop entirely until the next year. The series, written during the midwest farm crisis, followed a typical southwest Minnesota farm family through the course of a full year. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer for Non-Deadline Feature Writing for a series of stories collectively titled "Life on the Land: An American Farm Family". He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980, for a series of stories on Native American culture. In 1978 he moved to Minneapolis and started working for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press as a features reporter before becoming a daily columnist at the newspaper in 1980. Camp worked for the Miami Herald from 1971 to 1978. in American History and a Masters in Journalism from the University of Iowa. Camp was born on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. John Sandford is the pseudonym of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist John Roswell Camp.
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