Works by
John Sandford
(aka John Camp, John Roswell Camp)
(Writer)
[1944 - ]

The Kidd Series

• The Fool's Run (1990) (Originally published as written by John Camp)
  Kidd has three main occupations: he's a pretty good painter, a serious tarot reader, and a genius with computers. Fortunately, one of them pays the rent. He sells his computer skills to politicians, businessmen, anyone – as long as the price is right and the action isn't so illegal it risks bringing trouble into his carefully ordered life.
  
  Now he is contacted by the billionaire owner of Anshiser Aviation. A corporate spy has stolen plans for a revolutionary targeting system for fighter planes and sold them to rival Whitemark. Anshiser wants Kidd to wreak havoc in the Whitemark computers, to delay them long enough for Anshiser's system to reach the marketplace first. The gamble is greater than Kidd has ever accepted – but then, so is the money.
  
  Kidd likes to work alone: no leaks, no feuds, no double crosses. But this time he's got a team. There's LuEllen, a cat burglar addicted to danger (among other things); and Dace, a down-and-out journalist who'll do anything for a story that would revive his career; and sent to monitor their work is Maggie Kahn, Anshiser's beautiful – and ruthless – assistant. They dig in for battle, as Kidd tries to stay one step ahead of Whitemark, the feds, and the two mysterious characters watching him from a green van. One night he does a tarot reading: "I got the Seven of Swords overlaying the Emperor in a crucial position. Later, I knew what it meant. But then it was too late."

• The Empress File (1991) (Originally published as written by John Camp)
  One stifling summer night in Longstreet, Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Darrell Clark ran home thinking about two things: the ice cream he couldn't wait to eat and an algorithm he was working on, a way to generate real time fractal terrain on his Macintosh computer. The cops who shot him in the back, mistaking him for a purse snatcher, found the ice cream in the paper bag on the ground next to Darrell. They'd never know anything about computers, or about the events they had just set in motion.
  
  When the predictable cover-up occurs, a group of blacks, led by Marvel Atkins, decide the time for action has come. The city government must go. Through Darrell's computer, Marvel, with the incredible liquid eyes, links up with Kidd, who takes on jobs that may be a little beyond the law. She lays out the objective, but he makes the plan. The mayor, city council, city attorney are all corrupt. The firehouse is the center for drug dealing, and the recreation director skims money like algae from the municipal swimming pool. And then there's Duane Hill, the dogcatcher/enforcer who uses Dobermans to get his way. Kidd will simply find the crack in the machine and work it until the city comes down like a house of Tarot Cards.
  
  Kidd likes the tarot because it forces him outside his preconceptions, makes him test new theories. All he has to do is watch out for the Empress; the tarot says she is trouble. It is LuEllen, his partner in crime and sometimes in bed? Or Mayor Chenille Dessusdelit, whose ambition is as wide as the Mississippi? Or Marvel herself? – for as Kidd knows, idealism can be very, very dangerous.

• The Devil's Code (2000)
  I'm into something a little weird here, the letter said. I don't want to worry you, but if anything unusual should happen, get in touch with Kidd, okay?
  
  Before Lucas Davenport and the brilliant Prey novels, there was Kidd – artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal – and his sometime partner / sometime lover LuEllen. The Army left Kidd with a dislike for bureaucracy and the skills to do something about it, but it didn't prepare him for the day a woman would call and tell him his colleague Jack Morrison was dead. Jack was supposedly killed by a jittery security guard who caught him raiding a company's files in the middle of the night, but that story just doesn't sit right with Kidd. The more he investigates the company and its ambitious owner, the more convinced he becomes that Jack stumbled onto something that got him murdered. And that unless he and LuEllen got to the bottom of it all quickly, the next bodies might very well be their own...

• The Hanged Man's Song (2003
  A super-hacker friend of Kidd's named Bobby suddenly disappears from cyberspace, and Kidd knows that isn't a good sign. Going over to his house, he finds him dead on the floor, his head bashed in and his laptop missing – and Kidd knows that really isn't a good sign. The secrets on that laptop are potent enough to hang Kidd and everybody else in Bobby's circle – just to start with – so there's no question that Kidd and LuEllen have to try to track it down, not to mention that Kidd would dearly love to get his hands on the man who killed Bobby. But before he can get very far, the secrets start coming out anyway . . . and they're more staggering than even Kidd imagined. Because it's not just about the lives of a circle of friends and colleagues now, oh no – it's about something much, much bigger. And much, much scarier...

The Prey Series

• Rules of Prey (1992)
  The murderer was intelligent. He was a member of the bar. He derived rules based on professional examination of actual cases: Never kill anyone you know. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used. Beware of leaving physical evidence. There were more. He built them into a challenge. He was mad, of course . . .
  
  The killer's name is Louis Vullion, a low-key young attorney who, under the camouflage of normalcy, researches his next female victim until the pressure within him forces him to reach out and "collect" her. Plying his secret craft with the tactics of a games master, he has gripped the Twin Cities in a storm of terror more fierce than any Minnesota winter.
  
  It is after the third murder that Lucas Davenport is called in. It is the opinion of his colleagues that everything about the lieutenant is a little different, and they are right – in the computer games he invents and sells, in the Porsche he drives to work, in the quality of the women he attracts, in his single-minded pursuit of justice. The only member of the department's Office of Special Intelligence, Davenport prefers to work alone, parallel with Homicide, and there is something about this serial killer that he quickly understands. The man who signs himself "maddog" in taunting notes to the police is no textbook sociopath; he has a perverse playfulness that makes him kill for the sheer contest of it. He is a player.
  Which means that Davenport will have to put all his mental strength – and physical courage – on the line to learn to think like the killer. For the only way to beat the maddog is at his own hellish game. .

• Shadow Prey (1990)
  A slumlord and a welfare supervisor butchered in Minneapolis . . . a rising political star executed in Manhattan . . . an influential judge taken in Oklahoma City . . . All the homicides have the same grisly method – the victim's throat is slashed with an Indian ceremonial knife – and in every case the twisted trail leads back through the Minnesota Native American community to an embodiment of primal evil known as Shadow Love. Once unleashed, Shadow Love's need to kill cannot be checked, even by those who think they control him. Soon he will be stalking Lucas Davenport – and the woman he loves...
  
  Never get involved with a cop: Lieutenant Lucas Davenport has been warning women for years, but now he finds himself on dangerous ground with a policewoman named Lily Rothenburg, on assignment from New York to help investigate the murders. Both have previous commitments, but neither can stop, and as their affair grows more intense, so too does the mayhem surrounding them, until the combined passion and violence threaten to spin out of control and engulf them both. Together, Lucas and Lily must stalk the drugged-out, desperate world of the city's meanest streets to flush out Shadow Love – not knowing they are now the objects of his deadliest desires....

• Eyes of Prey (1991)
  The death of the doctor's wife horrifies the Twin Cities, especially what the killer did to her eyes. A report comes in of a troll-like man near the murder scene, his face a patchwork of scars, but that bizarre clue is all Lieutenant Lucas Davenport has to go on as he attempts to sort out the murder. Still trying to recover from a pair of particularly brutal cases, bone-weary, his nerves fraying, Davenport isn't sure he's up to it – until it happens again, the same savagery, the same mutilation of the eyes, and he realizes he has no choice. Little by little, Davenport is drawn into the web of a man of extraordinary intelligence and evil, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death: the dark mirror of Davenport's own soul. As the hunt winds through darker and ever more frightening events, Davenport knows there is no turning back. This is the case that will lift him back to life – or push him irrevocably over the edge.

• Silent Prey (1992)
  Bekker's ruined face twisted. "You should have..."
  "What?" Lucas demanded.
  ... killed me," Bekker said. "Fool."
  
  He was right. His guards slain, the brilliant, insane pathologist of Eyes of Prey flees to New York, there to continue his research into aspects of death. Carefully, he conducts his experiments, searching the eyes of his dying victims for what they can reveal, the mounting body count causing an uproar in the city.
  
  In desperation, the police reach out for the man who knew Bekker best, but when Lucas arrives, he finds unexpected danger as well. For Lily Rothenburg, the policewoman whose intense affair with Lucas has never completely faded, is there too. Now, consumed with her own investigation of a group of rogue killers within the police department, she draws Lucas into her orbit again, until their hunts merge, their twin obsessions driving them ever closer to the edge . . . and then over.

• Winter Prey (1993)
  It is winter in the remote, dark Wisconsin woods. But the chill in the local sheriff's bones has nothing to do with the weather. The extravagance of the crime is new to him: the murdered man, woman and child; the machete-like knife through the man's head; the ashes of the fire-consumed house spread over the ice and snow. In desperation, the sheriff turns for help to the reclusive lawman he'd heard had a cabin up here, and with reluctance Davenport agrees, but it is a decision he will soon have reason to regret. For this is a kind of criminal new to him, too. As he sifts through the ashes of the case itself, other crimes, shocking to his carefully hardened shell, emerge, and it becomes clear that there is an evil in these woods, an evil at once alien to him and closer than he can imagine . . . and against which even his skills may not prevail.

• Night Prey (1994)
  He was the best at what he did. A chameleon, invisible . . . uncatchable. For how could you catch an invisible man?
  
  It was a very cold, very clear morning in the Carlos Avery game reserve – cold enough to preserve the body lying there, clear enough so the state investigator couldn't miss it. There was something familiar about the stab wounds, she thought – but the Minneapolis police dismissed her theories, and the city's new police chief has problems enough of her own. The cops are wary of her, the public thinks she's too political, the feminists think she's sold out. And this damn murder just won't go away.
  
  Caught in the middle, the chief turns to Lucas Davenport for help, and reluctantly, he agrees. Still recovering from his near-fatal wounds of the year before, trying for once in his life to settle down with one woman, Lucas has his own concerns, but something about this murder, and another like it – the body found in a dumpster this time – teases him, and the more he looks into them, the more he's sure the investigator is right. There is something disconcertingly familiar about the wounds now only in these two cases, but just maybe in several others as well. Somewhere out there lurks a killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, he's just getting warmed up . . . .

• Mind Prey (1995)
  "Run for it." It was raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette left the parent-teacher conference with her two young daughters, and she was distracted. She barely noticed the red van parked near her, barely noticed the van door slide open as they dashed to the car. The last thing she did notice was the hand reaching out for her and the voice from out of the past – and the three of them were gone.
  
  Hours later, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport stood in the parking lot, a bloody shoe in his hand, the ground stained pink around him, and knew, instinctively, that this would be one of the worst cases he'd ever been on. A man who could steal children . . . With an urgency born of dread, Lucas presses the attack, while in an isolated farmhouse, Andi Manette does the same, summoning all her skills to battle an obsessed captor. She knows the man who has taken her and her daughters, knows there is a chink in his armor, if only she can find it. But for both her and Davenport, time is already running out.

• Sudden Prey (1996)
  It begins with a death and ends with one. For months, Lucas Davenport's men have been tracking a vicious woman bank robber named Candy, and when they finally catch up with her, she does not go quietly. In the ensuing shoot-out, she dies – and Davenport's nightmare starts. For her associates are even worse than she was, particularly her husband, a deeply violent man who swears an appropriate revenge: first he will find the names of those responsible; then he will kill those nearest and dearest to them, just the way they did Candy.
  
  So it begins. The husband of one officer is shot and killed. The wife of another is ambushed at work. When a third attack is thwarted, the pattern becomes clear to Davenport, and with an urgency born of rage and terror, he presses the hunt, desperately trying to track down the killers before they can strike again, before they can reach out for Davenport's own loved ones. But in this effort, he may already be too late.

• Secret Prey (1998)
  The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death. If he read it in a book, Lucas Davenport thought, it would seem like one of those classic murder mysteries, the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case with a little speech.
  
  But it wasn't going to be that easy, he knew. There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murder of a single man. Some time soon, unless he could stop it, there would be another death, and then still another, and Davenport couldn't help but wonder if maybe this time the final death might not be his own.

• Certain Prey (1999)
  Clara Rinker is a southerner, trim, pleasant, attractive – and the best hit woman in the business. She isn't showy, not like one of those movie killers; she just goes quietly about her business, collects her money, and goes home.
  
  It's when she's hired for a job in Minnesota that things become complicated for her. A defense attorney wants a rival eliminated, and that's fine. But then a witness survives, the attorney starts acting weird, this big cop Davenport gets on her case, and loose ends begin popping up faster than a sweater unraveling. Clara hates loose ends, and knows of only one way to deal with them: You start cutting them off, one after another, until they're all gone.
  
  Lucas thinks the case is worrisome enough, but he has no idea of the toll it is about to take on him. For of the many criminals he has hunted during his life, none has been as efficient or as ferociously intelligent as the one who is about to start hunting him – and none knows so well what his weak spots are... and how to penetrate them.

• Easy Prey (2000)
  He didn't wake up thinking about murder. He woke up thinking about the blonde on his bed and a stack of pancakes.... Funny how things work out....
  
  When Davenport is called to the white-stuccoed house, after the party, he knows it's for no usual case. For one thing, the strangulation victim is Alie'e Maison, she of the knife-edge cheekbones and jade-green eyes: as models go, one of the biggest. For another, there are a few small complications. Such as the drugs in her body and the evidence that she had recently made love to a woman. Such as the fact that one of Lucas's own men had been at the party, and is now a suspect. Such as the little surprise they are all about to find when they search the house: a second body, stuffed in a closet, with a deep dent in its skull.
  The whole case is going to be like this, Lucas knows – secrets piled upon secrets, the ground shifting constantly under his feet. But even he cannot suspect the earth tremors he is about to feel, when an old lover comes back into his life, a woman he has never been able to forget... whose own secrets may turn out to be the most perplexing ones of all.

• Chosen Prey (2001)
  He desired women. All shapes, all sizes. He would fix on a woman and build imaginary stories around her. Some of the women he knew well, others not at all. Most of them faded quickly. Only a few became objects of desire.
  
  An art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he took the hobby a step further and... well, one thing led to another, and he had to kill her. A man in his position couldn't be too careful, after all. And you know something? He liked it.
  
  Already faced with a welter of confusion in his personal life, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport decides to take this case himself, hoping that some straightforward police work will clear his head, but as the trail begins to take some unexpected turns, it soon becomes clear that nothing is straightforward about this killer. The man is learning as he goes, Lucas realizes, taking great strides forward with each murder. He is becoming a monster – and Lucas may have no choice but to walk right into his lair...

• Mortal Prey (2002)
  Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local druglord, and while the boy's father vows vengeance, Rinker knows something he doesn't: The boy wasn't the target – she was – and now she is going to have to disappear to find the killer herself. The FBI and DEA draft Davenport to help track her down, and with his fiancée deep in wedding preparations, he's really just as happy to go – but he has no idea what he's getting into. For Rinker is as unpredictable as ever, and between her, her old bosses in the St. Louis mob, the Mexican druglord, and the combined, sometimes warring, forces of U.S. law enforcement, this is one case that will get more dangerous as it goes along. And when the crossfire comes, anyone standing in the middle won't stand a chance....

• Naked Prey (2003)
  Lucas Davenport finds some changes – and some nasty surprises – in store, in the chilling new novel by the number-one-bestselling author.
  
  Now, in Naked Prey, John Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special troubleshooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. In addition, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him: he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay – and he's waiting for the bill.
  
  It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. "Lynching" is the word that everybody's trying not to say – but, as Lucas begins to discover, in fact the murders are nothing like what they appear to be, and they are not the end of it. There is worse to come – much, much worse.
  Filled with rich characterization and exceptional drama that are his hallmarks, this is Sandford's most suspenseful novel yet.

• Hidden Prey (2004)
  Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Rodion Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and his heart, and though nobody knows why, everybody – the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves – has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan.
  
  A Russian cop flies in from Moscow, Davenport flies in from Minneapolis, law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene – and, in the middle of it all, there is another murder. Is there a relationship between the two? What is the Russian cop hiding from Davenport? Is she – yes, it's a woman – a cop at all? Why was the man shot with fifty-year-old bullets? Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there – shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.

• Broken Prey (2005)
  Lucas Davenport confronts a living nightmare, in one of the spookiest Prey novels yet from the number-one bestselling author.
  
  There is nothing easy about what Lucas Davenport faces now.
  
  The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas knows, is pushed by brain chemistry, there is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad love affair.
  The second body is found a week later, in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display – except this time it is a man. Nothing to link the two murders, nothing to indicate that the killings end here.
  
  "This guy..." Lucas said. He took a deep breath, let it out as a sigh. "This guy is gonna bust our chops."
  
  And soon he is going to do far, far worse than that.
  
  A suspect emerges early: a man recently released from a prison hospital and who now seems to have cut himself free from his court-imposed ankle bracelet and disappeared. But the more Lucas investigates, the more he wonders: Is this really the man? Could he really have done this all by himself? And where has he gone to, anyway?
  
  And meanwhile, a predator waits....

• Invisible Prey (2007)
  In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms ransacked, only small items stolen. It's clearly a random break-in by someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as he looks more closely, Davenport begins to wonder if the items are actually so small or the victims so random, if there might not be some invisible agenda at work here. Gradually, a pattern begins to emerge – and it will lead Davenport to somewhere he never expected. Which is too bad, because the killers – and yes, there is more than one of them – the killers are expecting him.

• Phantom Prey (2008)
  A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood on the walls, no body – and her college-age daughter missing. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them – Goths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup and black clothing, listening to that awful music, so attracted to death. And now this.
  
  But the police can't find the girl, alive or dead, and the widow truly panics. There's someone she knows, a surgeon named Weather Davenport, whose husband is a big deal with the police, and she implores Weather to get her husband directly involved. Lucas gets in only reluctantly – but then when a second Goth is slashed to death in Minneapolis, he starts working it hard. The clues don't seem to add up, though. And then there's the young Goth who keeps appearing and disappearing: Who is she? Where does she come from and, more important, where does she vanish to? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here... something very, very bad indeed?

• Wicked Prey (May 12, 2009)
  The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention. Throwing a big party is supposed to be fun, but crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather stayed away. Chief among them is a crew of professional stickup men who’ve spotted several lucrative opportunities, ranging from political moneymen with briefcases full of cash to that armored-car warehouse with the weakness in its security system. All that’s headache enough for Lucas Davenport—but what’s about to hit him is even worse.
  
  A while back, a stray bullet put a pimp and petty thief named Randy Whitcomb in a wheelchair, and, ever since, the man has been nursing his grudge into a full head of psychotic steam. He blames Davenport for the bullet, but it’s no fun just shooting him. That wouldn’t be painful enough. Not when Davenport has a pretty fourteen-year-old adopted daughter that Whitcomb can target instead. . . .
  
  And then there’s the young man with the .50 caliber sniper rifle and the right- wing-crazy background, roaming through a city filled with the most powerful politicians on earth. . . .

  • Rules of Prey, Shadow Prey, Eyes of Prey (1995)
    Three Complete Novels

  • Mind Prey, Sudden Prey, Secret Prey (2000)
    Three Complete Novels

  • Silent Prey, Winter Prey, Night Prey  (2000)
    Three Complete Novels

Other Novels

• The Night Crew (1997)
  Anna Batory runs the night crew. Small, dark-haired, shy but tough, a Wisconsin farm girl on the streets of Los Angeles, she roams the city with her small band of video free-lancers in their truck from ten to dawn, looking for news: accidents, robberies, murders, demonstrations – anything they can shoot and sell to the local stations or the networks. It's an exhilarating life . . . until the day two deaths shake their world.
  
  The first is the jumper. Five stories up, perched on the ledge of a hotel window, dark pants, white shirt, just standing there – and then he's gone, falling through the air towards the cameras. The second is Jason, one of Anna's cameramen. Strangely affected by the jumper, he quits the scene early that night, not to be seen again until his body turns up on the beach several hours later, shot in the head. The police wonder if it's drug-related, but Anna isn't so sure, and the more she looks into it on her own, the more the ghosts of the past – hers, Jason's, and finally the jumper's – begin to emerge, until her whole world turns as dark and dangerous as the night itself.

• Dead Watch (2006)
  Sometimes, justice isn't enough.
  
  Late afternoon, Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former U.S. Senator named Lincoln Bowe, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't know, but she thinks she knows who's involved, and why. And that she may be next.
  
  Hours later, a phone rings in the pocket of Jacob Winter. An Army Intelligence veteran, Winter specializes in what he thinks of as forensic bureaucracy. Congress, the Pentagon, the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security – when something goes wrong, Winter kicks over rocks until he finds out what really happened. The White House is his main client, and the chief of staff is on the phone now.
  
  If Bowe isn't located soon, he is told, all hell will break loose.
  
  What Winter doesn't realize is – all hell will break loose anyway. And he will be right in the middle of it. Large forces are at work, men determined to do whatever it takes to achieve unprecedented ends. Before the next few days are out, Winter will discover he has to use every one of his resources not only to prevail... but just to survive.
  
  And so will the nation....

• The Eye and the Heart: The Watercolors of John Stuart Ingle (1988)
  John Stuart Ingle paints still-life watercolors of golden-ripe pears and deep-red strawberries, antique tables and hand-thrown pots, crystal bowls and lace doilies, and cold-steel paring knives, oriental carpets, arabesque tile, and gourmet candies as real as small children.
  
  His works have an astonishing sensuality and a riveting immediacy. They are created in the most homely of circumstances, in a light-and-plant-filled studio on a shady side street in Morris, Minnesota.
  
  John Stuart Ingle was painting watercolor landscapes, when, in 1975, he found his "style changing to a more textured and meticulous view of the world." At the same time, he decided "to explore how color feels" and "to impress a viewer with the results of a highly concentrated awareness."
  
  The extent to which the artist has succeeded in this endeavor is strikingly evident in the thirty-two oversized watercolors and eleven details splendidly reproduced in full color in this book. Here viewers can enjoy the recent products of Ingle's formidable technique in masterful compositions that shimmer with color and light and transform common domestic objects into haunting and resonant visual experiences.
  
  In his accompanying text, John Camp, a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch and longtime follower of Ingle's work, examines the artist's life and art with the perception and candor that in 1986 earned him both the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism and the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
  
  Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and author of Contemporary Realism since 1960, comments in his introduction on the significance of Ingle's work and places him within the context of contemporary American realism.

• Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut (1989)
  Appearance affects us from our earliest hours ("What a beautiful baby") to our death ("He looks so natural"). How we are treated as employees, professionals, lovers, and friends frequently has more to do with our looks than with our IQ.
  
  Every year more than half a million Americans – mostly women, but an increasing proportion of men – avail themselves of board-certified aesthetic surgery. Most are neither rich nor famous, just ordinary people who are aware of the penalties of poor appearance. Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut has been published to answer the needs of these individuals and the hundreds of thousands more who need complete and authoritative (and unbiased) information on this important subject. It is the works of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist in collaboration with Bruce Cunningham, a distinguished surgeon at the University of Minnesota. Cunningham's medical practice – interactions with a broad variety of patients – is used to introduce the reader to the risks and costs of each type of surgical procedure.
  
  As John Camp writes, "In general, a plastic surgeon's work falls into two broad categories: aesthetic repair and functional repair. Aesthetic repair attempts to improve appearance that might otherwise fall near the limits of the normal range. Rhinoplasties, facelifts, tummy tucks, breast enhancements, breast reductions, and suction lipectomies . . . are examples. Functional repair fixes human organs that don't work. The problem may be congenital or may have been acquired in war, by accident, through other forms of violence, or from disease. Breast reconstructions after cancer surgery fall into this category. Burn repairs, which attempt to cover open wounds with new skin, are also in this category." All of this work, aesthetic or reconstructive, has a common end. Stated simply, it is to make people function better, feel better about themselves. As one patient puts it, "I wanted to be happy about the way I look. Not for anyone else, just for me."

• Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Lies, and Other Deadly Handicaps From Today's' Original Writers (2006)
  Author: Otto Penzler:
  They say the smaller the ball the better the stories. If that's true, here's a double-eagle collection of stories about golf's nastiest hazards, created by contemporary masters of mystery and suspense. You won't find flesh-piercing flag sticks or exploding clubs in these pages. Instead, these selections by prize-winning editor Otto Penzler offer fifteen rounds of keen driving and deft putting in lush greens of murder and mayhem.
  
  Includes works by Bradford Morrow, Christopher Coake,
  H.R.F. Keating, John Sandford, John Westermann,Jonathan Gash, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Lawrence Block, Simon Brett, Stephen Collins, Steve Hamilton, Tom Franklin, and William G. Tapply