![]() Sandford has a lot of interests other than writing and one of the them is archaeology. Soon there’s more allegiances declared and alliances broken than on a season of Game of Thrones, and an increasingly frustrated Virgil can’t seem to make any of these double crossing idiots understand that somebody’s gonna get killed if this foolishness doesn’t stop. Even Ma Nobles gets mixed up in hunt for the stele, much to Virgil’s consternation. Two spotlight hungry media whores who pretend to be scholars also want in on the action, and the Israelis have a couple of dirty tricks at the ready. A couple of tough Turks with fearsome reputations also show up. The stele’s inscription has historic implications that could be very damaging to Israel so Hezbollah has sent a representative to try and obtain it for propaganda purposes. Jones plans to auction the stele off to the highest bidder to get the money needed to care for his wife suffering from Alzheimer’s after he dies, and it turns out the old man is pretty wily. Virgil really should know by now that Davenport lies… Davenport assures Flowers that he’ll back on his counterfeit lumber case in to time at all. Virgil just has to play tour guide, pick up the terminally ill minister, and locate the stele. The Israelis want it back and have dispatched an antiquities expert to makes sure that happens. A Lutheran minister named Elijah Jones who is dying of cancer stole an ancient inscribed stone called a stele from an archaeological dig in Israel and smuggled it home to Minnesota. So when a call comes in from his boss Lucas Davenport with another assignment Virgil is more than a little miffed.ĭavenport tells him that it's no big deal. Of course part of the reason that Virgil is working so hard is that Ma is very attractive and flirting shamelessly with him. Minnesota state investigator Virgil Flowers is working diligently on a case involving Florence ‘Ma’ Nobles and her sons selling counterfeit antique lumber. ![]() His wife, Susan, died of metastasized breast cancer in May, 2007, and is greatly missed. He has two children, Roswell and Emily, and one grandson, Benjamin. He is the principal financial backer of a major archeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel, with a website at In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography. He's also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. From 1990 to the present he has written thriller novels. ![]() Paul Pioneer-Press from 1978-1990 in 1980, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he won the Pulitzer in 1986 for a series of stories about a midwestern farm crisis. He was a reporter for The Miami Herald from 1971-78, and then a reporter for the St. Army from 1966-68, worked as a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian from 1968-1970, and went back to the University of Iowa from 1970-1971, where he received a master's degree in journalism. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. 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. It is part of the "Prey" series but Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers share the billing - "Ocean Prey." Librarian's note: as of 2021, there are 13 volumes in the author's Virgil Flowers series. "Palestinian crazies, Syrian crazies, Egyptian crazies, maybe a couple of Israeli crazies. She's not laughing.Īs it turns out, there are very bad men chasing the relic, and they don't care who's in the way or what they have to do to get it. "Is this one of those mystical movie-plot deals? The secret artifact, the blockbuster revelation, the teams of murderous bad guys? Should I be boning up on my Bible verses?" He looks at the Israeli investigator. No more than a few days later, Virgil Flowers in Minnesota gets a message from Lucas Davenport, "You're about to get a visitor." It's an Israeli cop, and she's chasing a man who smuggled out an extraordinary relic - an ancient inscribed stone which may revel startling details about the man known as King Solomon. In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat.
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