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Dead Watch (Night Watch) by [John Sandford]

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport novels delivers “a page-turner with a new hero, [and a] breakneck pace" (Minneapolis Star Tribune).

“Former Sen. Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the political aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barb-wired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and missing his head. Democratic ‘research assistant’ (read: fixer) Jacob Winter, ex-Army Intelligence, wounded in Afghanistan, is called in by the Democratic president to unravel an extremely messy situation and shield his office from any hint of scandal. As this runaway train picks up speed, innocents are murdered, and the guilty come to Jesus…

"…Sandford is a master at creating believable, indelible characters like Winter…[He] is peerless when it comes to economical, taut plotting, most notably at building tension. Dead Watch is anything but politics as usual.”—San Antonio Express-News

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May 16, 2006
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When Lincoln Bowe, a controversial Republican ex-senator, disappears at the start of this fast-paced thriller from bestseller Sandford (Broken Prey), the White House puts Jacob Winter, a veteran political operative with "an uncanny ability to navigate the world of bureaucracy," on the case. Bowe vanished shortly after making a fiery speech denouncing a rival, Arlo Goodman, the governor of Virginia and a demagogue who heads a volunteer militia group known as the Watchmen. When Bowe's burnt and headless corpse turns up, Winter is under even more pressure to discover those behind his murder. Aided by the dead man's attractive and possibly duplicitous widow, Madison, the fixer follows a trail of corpses and deception that suggests the killing may have been a staged piece of theater intended to derail Goodman's ascent to the presidency. Readers interested in a quick diverting romp without much gravitas will enjoy this, but serious Beltway fiction junkies might prefer their political thrillers to be a little more plausible. 500,000 announced first printing. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

John Sandford is the pseudonym of John Roswell Camp, an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1986 and was one of four finalists for the prize in 1980. He also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors for 1985. He is the author of more than thirty published novels, all of which have appeared, in one format or another, on the New York Times #1 bestseller lists. His books have been translated into most European languages, as well as Japanese and Korean.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000PC0SIC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ G.P. Putnam's Sons (May 16, 2006)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 16, 2006
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 769 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 418 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0425215695

Best Sellers Rank: #21,864 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #132 in Conspiracy Thrillers (Books)
- #194 in Conspiracy Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #232 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Kindle Store)

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John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of the Prey novels, the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, and six other books, including three YA novels co-authored with his wife Michele Cook.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2022

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I really enjoyed this book. It was fast moving and had some pretty tense moments. I really enjoyed the action in the cabin. John's my go to buy for excitement.

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Political thriller

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 25, 2022

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A definite page turner. The story comes together like a 1,000 piece puzzle and you will smile when it is complete.

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Minnesota Irony Moves to DC

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2020

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I’m a big fan of John Sanford for two main reasons—the characters and the snappy dialogue. Jacob Winter is Sandford’s new character and if you like Lucas Davenport from the Prey series, you’ll probably like Jake. Similar to the way that Davenport did special favors for the Governor of Minnesota, Jake works for the President and his Chief of Staff. He does the jobs they want to be able to deny they had anything to do with. In this case, sorting out the political and criminal ramifications of an ex-Senator gone missing in a presidential election year. It’s a nice niche in the genre, a step more nuanced than the well-developed theme of the private eye who can get away with stuff that the cops aren’t supposed to do, like breaking into someone’s house without a warrant or withholding evidence from government investigators. Jake does all that, but also has the clout of being able to say that the President wants results when he runs into a witness who doesn’t want to cooperate, plus the White House travel office to fly him around the country.
Of course, you can’t get to know Jake nearly as well in one book as you can Davenport in over two dozen, and Jake doesn’t yet have a Virgil Flowers for all the fun he provides, but I’m looking forward to seeing more books in this series.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 4, 2022

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This book makes my head hurt. All the characters are so creepy—like the worst political jerks you can imagine. Makes me wish an asteroid would crash into earth and get everything all over and done.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 29, 2006

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John Sandford's got his Mad on. About the dirty world of politics and spin control, about a sensationalist, rude media --ironic since Sandford's real personae is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Everybody lies, everybody manipulates, there are no pure hearts, there's no innocence in DEAD WATCH.

Former Senator Lincoln Bowe is missing, then found dead. Decapitated, shot, burned and tied with barbed wire, no doubt the victim of Democratic Party politics -- unless the Republicans did it. The president calls in Jake Winter, forensic political fixer, to sort out the mess and keep the president's underwear clean. Is the dead senator a victim of the Democratic Party's storm troopers, the Republican Party's election planning, or was he killed by a gay lover? Winter knows the answers lie deep within the layers of election planning bureaucracies of the two political parties. A scandal is about to leak, and each party is planning its stain. People will die, people will go to jail. Who's to blame, or is everybody to blame?

One might think that Winter has few allies tip-toeing through this political sewer. Au contraire. Seemingly, everybody wants to help: Party honchos; the governor of Virginia; the leader of the Watchmen, the Democratic Party's Storm Troopers, even the hot and [...] widow of the gay dead senator. But everyone's got an agenda, and Winter must choose his bedmates carefully, or it could be his life next turned to goo. Winter may be cold and ruthless, but man, the guy can cut red tape. This is a dark thriller, at least as dark as Sandford's Prey series. And many of the characters are similar: Jake Winter smacks of Lucas Davenport; Danzig smacks of Rose Marie; the characters still say "Ah, man" and "Ah jeez." Only this time, there's no top 100 list of Rock 'n Roll.

I didn't enjoy this book as much as Sandford's Prey or Kidd series. While I'm just as disgusted with the media, spin and electioneering as Sandford apparently is, this book exaggerates those realities, and it has the feel of a disgusted author shouting, "ENOUGH!" It's a good read, though, no doubt about it -- it's Sandford after all. But I'm hoping this is a stand-alone, not the birth of a new series.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 17, 2022

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Really enjoyed the book. I love Jake's character. Real interesting guy. Not your typical hero. You did get me in trouble with my wife when I choose to read instead of " connecting with he ". Oh well she for gave me. Hope to get to read another Jake Winter character book someday. Thanks for entertaining me Mr. Sanford. You Rock!!!!

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Sandford Takes on Washington

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2013

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Dead Watch is a step away from Lucas Davenport operating in Minneapolis. Jake Winter may be a new character for a new series based in DC. I have read Sandford's other departures - Virgil Flowers, or the young and wild Kidd. Davenport and Flowers remain my favorites, even considering Jake Winter. It is nice in some ways to have a significant back story built up as in the case of Lucas Davenport. In this book I kept looking for something familiar that would point me along a track. There were no tracks. Winter's investigation methods play loose with the law. There are at least two key points where he could have gotten hung good if luck had not intervened.

It took me a while to get hooked on this story. I was going into the hospital for an indefinite stay so I wanted several Kindle stories on hand. I expected one or two long boring overnights to get deeply into the story. All I got was a short day stay with little glimpses into the book now and then. My visit was short (fortunately) so most the reading took place after I was home (experiencing "bed rest" as well as I could)!

This is a good read. Future developments should be interesting. Since this came out in 2007, it seems Sandford may have thought better of the DC setting with which he is not as intimately familiar as the Upper Midwest.

More Flowers and more Davenport, please.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2022

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Worth reading. It starts out a little “hackneyed” but shortly develops into one of those books you cant put down.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 29, 2014

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The author nevers lets his readers down, well defined characters, realistic crimes and and criminals that avoid sterotyping. All round a good read, as good as the Prey series.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 1, 2016

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not quite up to flowers or davenport but still up there

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