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.

Librarian's note: the first five books in the Lucas Davenport series are #1, Rules of Prey, 1989 #2, Shadow Prey, 1990 #3, Eyes of Prey, 1991 #4, Silent Prey, 1992 and #5, Winter Prey, 1993. Now, consumed with her own investigation of a group of rogue killers who could be inside the police department, she draws Lucas into her orbit again, until their hunts merge, their twin obsessions driving them ever closer to the edge. For Lily Rothenburg, the policewoman whose intense affair with Lucas has never completely faded, is there too. In desperation, the police reach out for the man who knew Bekker best, but when Lucas Davenport arrives, he finds unexpected danger as well. But the mounting body count is causing an uproar in the city. Carefully, Michael Bekker conducts his experiments, searching the eyes of his dying victims for what they can reveal. His guards slain, the brilliant yet insane pathologist of 'Eyes of Prey' flees to New York, there to continue his research into aspects of death.

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