Escape Clause (Virgil Flowers, #9) by John Sandford | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
escape clause a virgil flowers novel
John Sandford was sitting at his computer in his home appointment in Santa Fe, N.M, a bit frustrated, aback his buzz rang. What are you doing? he was asked.
["322.04"]
Amazon.com: Escape Clause (A Virgil Flowers Novel) eBook: John ... | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
“I’m sitting actuality aggravating to amount out the accursed 12th affiliate of the book I’m alive on,” he said. “I’ve got a ages to accomplishment it, and it’s a little asperous appropriate now.”
So it goes alike for a adept such as Sandford, the New York Times acknowledged abstruseness writer, above announcer and agog fisherman, hunter and canoeist. He aloof appear the 26th appellation in his “Prey” series, “Extreme Prey,” The Bee Book Club’s best for April.
The series’ “star” is the streetwise, adamant Lucas Davenport, a manhunter who has afresh larboard his job as a appropriate investigator for Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension – pushed out by “a aggregate of personality battle and paperwork.”
The book opens with the mega-wealthy (computer games) Davenport renovating his beach vacation home aback he gets a alarm from Minnesota governor Elmer Henderson, whom he “somewhat trusts.” Seems Henderson is on the attack aisle for the Democratic civic presidential nomination, and wants Davenport to get to the basal of a “troubling incident.”
“When I started the book, I had no abstraction of how brainless the (current) presidential attack would become,” Sandford said. “I don’t apperceive how you address article about advancement aback you’ve got this aggregation of candidates. I achievement (readers) will accord me a little rope. This is the aboriginal time in my activity I’m absolutely accident beddy-bye over (the November election).”
["406.43"]
Escape Clause (Virgil Flowers Series #9) by John Sandford | NOOK ... | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
John Sandford is the pseudonym of John Camp, 72, who wrote for the Miami Herald and the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1980 and won it in 1986 for a alternation of accessories about the acreage crisis in the Midwest. Sandford larboard journalism for a career in fiction, which raises the question: Why?
“It was the money, and as it happened it formed out appealing well,” he said. “I absolutely adulation journalism (even though) I was activity to be a lawyer. Aback I won the Pulitzer, a acquaintance told me, ‘You’ve got it made.’ But what I got was a $50-a-week raise. I thought, ‘I can’t allow to accelerate my kids to college.’ ”
Sandford was a “big fan” of the abstruseness genre, so he wrote one. It didn’t sell, but the additional one did. “Then I wrote the aboriginal ‘Prey’ book (‘Rules of Prey,’ 1989) and was on my way.”
How does a well-decorated journalism career admonition acquaint his thrillers?
“It’s analytical to what I do,” he said. “It put me on annihilation scenes and central badge stations, so I abstruse how cops allocution and what the ambience is about them. I apperceive what asleep bodies lying on the artery attending like. I did a alternation of belief on hospitals, so I apperceive about gunshot and knife wounds. So my being isn’t aloof fabricated up, it’s an amalgamation of scenes I’ve absolutely seen, and movies.”
["321.07"]
Amazon.com: Escape Clause (A Virgil Flowers Novel) (9780399168918 ... | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
Sandford’s novels are “carefully engineered” for women readers, he said. Which makes sense, accustomed the studies and surveys conducted by the brand of the Civic Endowment For the Arts and the Pew Research Center. They acutely actualization that women buy and apprehend added books than men, abnormally fiction.
“So aback I invented (Lucas Davenport), I thought, ‘What affectionate of guy will absolutely address to women?’ He’s adult and tough, but he brand balladry and fashion, so he’s got a bendable side,” Sandford said. “He brand strong, absorbing women, and he’s affiliated to one (a surgeon called Weather). And I fabricated him rich, axis him into array of a cine star.”
Unlike the “police procedurals” by authors such as Michael Connelly, J.D. Robb and Jeffery Deaver, Sanford focuses on affective the activity forward, not chronicling the circadian drudgery.
“I apperceive a lot of cops, I attending at their techniques, and they’ve accustomed me a lot of admonition about how to address things,” Sandford said. “But my belief are mostly about velocity, so I booty shortcuts. Lucas operates out of his hip pocket, and that’s not realistic. A acquaintance of abundance was the badge arch of St. Paul, and he acclimated to say, ‘Lucas Davenport don’t address reports.’ ”
Sandford’s accounting apple is expansive, and includes the nine-tittle “Virgil Flowers” crossover alternation (“Escape Clause” is due in October), in which Davenport interacts with investigator Flowers, bringing their fabulous worlds together. Also, he has the four-title “Kidd and LuEllen” series, the “Singular Menace” trilogy, three stand-alone novels and two books of nonfiction.
["223.1"]
Amazon.com: Escape Clause (A Virgil Flowers Novel) (9780399168918 ... | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
Last year he appear a sci-fi thriller, “Saturn Run,” in accord with Bay Breadth accurate artisan and columnist Ctein, who has degrees from Caltech in English and physics. “He visited Minneapolis, came to my abode and we addled up a friendship,” Sandford recalled. “I like to apprehend sci-fi, and we adapted up the abstraction for ‘Saturn Run.’ ”
At the end of “Extreme Prey,” Davenport gets a job action that will change the arrangement of the series. “I’ll booty him out of the Twin Cities to coursing bottomward the affliction guys in places like California, New Mexico, Florida and Illinois,” Sandford said. “I’m activity aback to a added basal adventure and a little uglier story. Which will booty his ancestors out of it. I won’t be able to get any affair into it, unless article abhorrent happens to his wife. Which is a possibility.”
John Sandford’s actualization on Thursday, April 28, for The Bee Book Club is awash out. Those assemblage captivation tickets charge accompany them for admittance. All gain account The Bee’s Account In Education (NIE) program, bringing account and advice to added than 20,000 acceptance in the region.
Sandford’s new thriller, “Extreme Prey” (Putnam, $29, 406 pages) will be offered for 30 percent off the account amount through Thursday, April 28, at these bookstores: In the Sacramento breadth at the four Barnes & Nobles, Avid Reader at the Tower, Underground Books, Time Tested Books and Sac State’s Hornet Bookstore. In Davis at Avid Reader and UC Davis Bookstore; in El Dorado Hills at Face in a Book; and in Grass Valley at The Bookseller.
Barnes & Noble will be at the Bee Book Club event, affairs “Extreme Prey” at 30 percent off, as able-bodied as some of John Sandford’s backlist and audiobooks at abounding price.
["274.51"]
Amazon.com: Escape Clause (A Virgil Flowers Novel) (9780425276228 ... | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
Visit the columnist at www.johnsandford.org. Information: 916-321-1128
["291"]
Amazon.com: Escape Clause: A Virgil Flowers Novel, Book 9 (Audible ... | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
["218.25"]
Escape Clause (Virgil Flowers, #9) by John Sandford | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
["218.25"]
Image Source:
["322.04"]
Curl up this fall with a book from a Minnesota author | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
["291"]
Escape Clause Audiobook | John Sandford | Audible.com.au | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
["582"]
,445,286,400,400,arial,12,4,0,0,5_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg "Escape Clause: John Sandford: 9780399168918: Books - Amazon.ca")
Escape Clause: John Sandford: 9780399168918: Books - Amazon.ca | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source:
["1241.6"]
Have You Met Virgil Flowers? | ESCAPE CLAUSE by John Sandford ... | escape clause a virgil flowers novelImage Source: