The brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

"Sandford's track record as a best-selling author is amazing, but it's not an accident," wrote Booklist of Wicked Prey. "His plotting is sharp, his villains are extraordinarily layered, and his good guys are always evolving.

And this time, there's a storm brewing...Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But then things swiftly go bad, one of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck-and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport.

Did she see enough? Can she identify them? Gnawing it over later, it seems to them there is only one thing they can do: Find out who she is, and eliminate the only possible witness...

Tualatin, Oregon, June 2, 2010 – VJ Books (http://www.vjbooks.com) presents signed editions of Storm Prey (2010 May Penguin)—the 20th novel in John Sandford’s bestselling “Prey” series.

In Storm Prey, there's a storm brewing.  Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But then things swiftly go bad, one of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck-and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport.

Did she see enough? Can she identify them? Gnawing it over later, it seems to them there is only one thing they can do: Find out who she is, and eliminate the only possible witness...

John Sandford’s work has been hailed as "the kind of trimmed-to-the-bone thriller you can't put down" - Chicago Tribune.  The Washington Posts says "John Sandford is at the top of his game".

John Sandford is the pseudonym of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp.  Camp has written twenty books in the bestselling "Prey" series.  The series takes place in chronological order although people do read them out of order.  Here is a chronological list of the “Prey” series novels:  Rules of Prey (1989), Shadow Prey (1990), Eyes of Prey (1991), Silent Prey (1992), Winter Prey (1993), Night Prey (1994), Mind Prey (1995), Sudden Prey (1996), Secret Prey (1998), Certain Prey (1999), Easy Prey (2000), Chosen Prey (2001), Mortal Prey (2002), Naked Prey (2003), Hidden Prey (2004), Broken Prey (2005), Invisible Prey (2007), Phantom Prey (2008), Wicked Prey (2009), Storm Prey (2010).

Sandford has also written four books in the "Kidd" series; three books in the series starring Virgil Flowers: Dark of the Moon, Heat Lightning, and Rough Country; and two non-series novels, The Night Crew and Dead Watch.