Three Complete Novels : Rules of Prey; Shadow Prey; Eyes of Prey [Hardcover]

John Sandford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 16, 1995

A low-priced omnibus edition collects three suspenseful thrillers--complete and unabridged--from the author's popular Prey series, featuring the engaging and iconoclastic detective, Lucas Davenport.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 725 pages
• Publisher: Putnam Adult; First Edition Thus edition (November 16, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399140077
• ISBN-13: 978-0399140075
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 2 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars John Sanford is the best !, December 12, 1999

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This review is from: Three Complete Novels : Rules of Prey; Shadow Prey; Eyes of Prey (Hardcover)

I have read all of the Prey series and am a really big fan. I wasn't always a person who does alot of recreational reading . But once i started the Prey series I can't stop I have read them all and am ready for his next release. I still think my favorite was Rules of Prey.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The most evil villains I have ever read., August 22, 1998

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This review is from: Three Complete Novels : Rules of Prey; Shadow Prey; Eyes of Prey (Hardcover)

I have read five of the "Prey" novels so far, including these three stories. Obviously, there is something about them that I find attractive, but in retrospect, I cannot honestly say what. The writing style is pleasant, but not taxing, and draws you along. The villains are the most evil people that I have ever read about, and always come to the same end. The number of psychos inhabiting John Sandford's Midwest is truly frightening, yet doesn't seem to surprise the locals. These books are the "sitcom-lites" of literature, but easy and quick to read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars John Sandford is a literary genius!!, July 24, 2006

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Grant Drum (north carolinia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Three Complete Novels : Rules of Prey; Shadow Prey; Eyes of Prey (Hardcover)

Johns books are addictive,if you buy one, you will ultimatly want to buy them all.Exspecially if you start with this book
rules of prey,it reads fast....and your heartbeat does its
best to keep up.