About this book
Dead Watch followed The Night Crew in 2006, a 373-page Washington political thriller about a kidnapped former Secretary of Defense. It's one of three standalone novels -- alongside The Night Crew and the hard-science-fiction Saturn Run -- that John Sandford wrote outside his usual Minnesota-cop universe of Prey, Virgil Flowers and Kidd, with no connection to any of those series.
Key facts about Dead Watch
John Sandford wrote Dead Watch, a book on our list. It has been out since 1 January 2006. The book has 373 pages.
We list 1 edition of this book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399153549 to find the main one.
John Sandford has 57 books on our list. 54 of them belong to a series, while 3 stand alone. All 57 are out now. Other books by John Sandford on file include Lethal Prey (2025), Toxic Prey (2024), Dark Angel (2023) and Judgment Prey (2023).
Earlier, Broken Prey came out in 2005. After it came Invisible Prey in 2007. Since then, our list has added 35 more books by John Sandford.
John Sandford has 4 series on file, such as Kidd, Prey and Virgil Flowers. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, Revenge Prey is the latest published John Sandford book on file, from 7 April 2026.
About John Sandford
John Sandford is the pen name of John Roswell Camp, an American novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning former journalist best known for the long-running Prey series featuring Minnesota investigator Lucas Davenport. Beginning with Rules of Prey in 1989, the series follows Davenport from a state investigator who moonlights as a video-game designer to a senior officer with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, tracking killers across dozens of increasingly character-driven thrillers. See every John Sandford book in order.
Editions
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