Dead Watch, John Sandford
Dead Watch, John Sandford
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Dead Watch

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/16/2006

Synopsis

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 senator 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

About John Sandford

American author, John Sanford (a pseudonym of John Roswell Camp) wrote thirty-five novels, all of which are on the New York Times bestsellers list in one way or another. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1944, where he spent much of his time with his Lithuanian grandparents. Their home was very primitive with an outside outhouse and a subsistence garden. Life was work centered on the farm with hay being bailed each summer to feed the various farm animals. Fruit trees were also in abundance on their property. It was a good place to grow up.

Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He also wrote two non-fiction books. The Eye and the Heart: The Water Colors of John Stuart Ingle, and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.

Camp was married to Susan Lee Jones, and has two children. Susan died in May 2007 of metastasized breast cancer, and he married again in 2013 to Michele Cook, a journalist and screenwriter. Camp is a dedicated painter and photographer also. He, however, does not show his paintings.

Camp's most prolific work is the Prey series of which there are currently twenty-five installments, running from 1989 - 2015.......the first being Rules of Prey and the most recent, Gathering Prey, which debuted on April 28, 2015. Other series include The Kidd Series, The Virgil Flowers Series, The Singular Menace Series, and other various books and short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on November 02, 2016

This is a book about some really shady stuff being done by major political figures amidst a media circus. *sigh* So much for reading to escape reality…. Jacob Winter is former soldier who became an academic after suffering a leg injury in Afghanistan. His study and expertise of navigating the corrido......more

Goodreads review by Jim on December 30, 2018

I like Sandford's standalones. This one is great. Jake is a forensic bureaucracy specialist, aka fixer. He's a smart, tough guy in a very twisty situation. Great look at politics, the media, & a very believable set of dirty tricks. Good characters & dialogue. Very well narrated & written. I liked it......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on June 26, 2013

Listened to this as an audiobook. Read by a favorite: Richard Ferrone who seems to make a specialty of John Sandford's books. A refreshing change from the increasingly redundant Lucas Davenport series. In this case we follow Jacob, "Jake," Winter, a "forensic bureaucracy specialist." He works for the......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on February 16, 2019

I would rate this book 4.5 stars if I could. An excellent stand alone by Sandford as government troubleshooter tries to solve the mystery of a missing former Senator. A good plot with plenty of action. I think this could be made in to a series but Sandford apparently is interested in doing so. Recom......more

Goodreads review by Julie on October 27, 2019

This is a different location for Sandford although lately he does have Lucas involved with government business. Tis a different idea this fixer kinda person. The personalities become quite developed late in the book and it saves it. I still can't help but think murder does not become okay regardless......more

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