He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. John Sandford was born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Because if it's true, then this whole thing leads down a lot more trails than he thought - and every one of them is booby-trapped. and then he does, and he's almost sorry he did.

If he could only find out what connects them all. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth.Exactly like the body they found last week.The more Flowers works the murders, the more convinced he is that someone's keeping a list, and that the list could have a lot more names on it. There's a body in Stillwater, two shots to the head, found near a veteran's memorial. He's wrong.It's a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if you're keeping count), when the phone rings.

Flowers is only in his late thirties, but he's been around the block a few times, and he doesn't think much can surprise him anymore. (Oct.John Sandford's introduction of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers was an immediate critical and popular success. While the less than credible plot builds to a highly unlikely resolution, most readers will enjoy spending time in the company of the genial Flowers. Eventually, he settles on the owner of a security company involved with the upcoming Republican National Convention as his prime suspect. When Flowers learns that Vietnamese firing squads stuck lemons in the mouths of their human targets, he pursues leads in the local immigrant community, where he hooks up with the attractive daughter of a radical professor who'd written a paper about Agent Orange. Sanderson's killing is one in a series, and Flowers soon discovers that all the victims served together in Vietnam. ), a gunman shoots Bobby Sanderson as he's walking his dog one night in Stillwater, Minn., then places a lemon in the dead man's mouth.

At the start of bestseller Sandford's solid second thriller to feature officer Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (after Dark of the Moon

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