The Iceman [Import] [Hardcover]

John Sandford (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (September 23, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002240432
• ISBN-13: 978-0002240437
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,659,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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John Sandford was born John Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. He was in the U.S. 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. He was a reporter for The Miami Herald from 1971-78, and then a reporter for the St. 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. From 1990 to the present he has written thriller novels. He's also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. He is the principal financial backer of a major archaeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel, with a website at www.rehov.org. In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography. He both hunts and fishes. He has two children, Roswell and Emily, and one grandson, Benjamin. His wife, Susan, died of metastasized breast cancer in May, 2007, and is greatly missed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars SAME AS WINTER PREY, June 8, 2010

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I RESENTLY ORDERED "THE ICEMAN " FROM ENGLAND THINKING THAT THIS WAS AN EARLIER BOOK BY JOHN SANDFORD. WHEN I GOT IT, I FOUND OUT THAT THIS WAS THE SAME AS "WINTER PREY." OF COURSE I LOVED IT, BUT BEWARE THAT IS THE SAME AS "WINTER PREY."