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. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers. And they soon have their hands full-the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. The Five soon become popular figures in the media …though their motives may not be entirely pure.Īfter The Five strike again in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. They target the worst of society-rapists, murderers, and thieves-and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco.

“We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in this stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

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