Sandford has moved the setting from the Twin Cities to Washington, DC, where Jacob Winter works as a freelance researcher for the White House. Lucas Davenport of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension stars in the series, often assisted by the crack investigator Virgil Flowers (who sports his own eight-book series).ĭead Watch bears all the signs of a new series coming on.
John Roswell Camp, aka John Sandford, is the author of nearly four dozen books, the bestselling 25-book Prey series most prominent among them. Review #3 Audiobook Dead Watch by John Sandford Of course, you cant get to know Jake nearly as well in one book as you can Davenport in over two dozen, and Jake doesnt yet have a Virgil Flowers for all the fun he provides, but Im looking forward to seeing more books in this series. 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 doesnt want to cooperate, plus the White House travel office to fly him around the country. Its 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 arent supposed to do, like breaking into someones house without a warrant or withholding evidence from government investigators. In this case, sorting out the political and criminal ramifications of an ex-Senator gone missing in a presidential election year. He does the jobs they want to be able to deny they had anything to do with. Similar to the way that Davenport did special favors for the Governor of Minnesota, Jake works for the President and his Chief of Staff. Jacob Winter is Sandfords new character and if you like Lucas Davenport from the Prey series, youll probably like Jake. Im a big fan of John Sanford for two main reasonsthe characters and the snappy dialogue.
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