This political thriller, featuring quirky Jacob Winter, kept me turning the pages all the way to the end. I usually get bored with stories with a heavy political theme. However, this book kept the political aspects fresh and relevant to the plot. Dead Watch was well written with a well developed storyline.

I like his books but find his "Prey" books to be a little too intense at times. This one could have used a little more intensity, but I enjoyed it.

A little slow going in comparison to some of his other books, but still good. If you are looking for something similar to the Kidd novels...this is not it..but a good stand alone novel.

Intriguing Washington drama - different from most Sandford but compelling.

Great story- though not his best work

Good book - must read for Lucas Davenport fans.

Good story...I like all of his books.

Good book, I hope we see more of these characters!

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This was my first book by Sandford and I'm not sure if I like him or not. I had a hard time getting through the story it felt very drawn out, but yet I wanted to know the ending. I want to say it was not well written but parts were. Also, he does not define his characters all that well. It was a good enough read that I will pick up another of his books.

Definitly different from the Prey series, Political this time, weak ending but a good story nonetheless.

Sometimes justice isn't enough. From the author of the number one best selling prey novels comes an extraordinary story of murder, passion, and deadly ambition. A political thriller like no other. Dead Watch sets a whole new level!

I don't want to keep any of John Sandford's fans from reading this book, but to me it was flat.

Late afternoon, Virigina, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former US sentaor 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.

House 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, Honeland 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 unprecendented 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.

When Lincoln Bowe, a controversial Republican ex-senator, disappears at the start of this fast-paced thriller from bestseller Sandford (Broken Prey), the White House puts Jacob Winter, a veteran political operative with "an uncanny ability to navigate the world of bureaucracy," on the case. Bowe vanished shortly after making a fiery speech denouncing a rival, Arlo Goodman, the governor of Virginia and a demagogue who heads a volunteer militia group known as the Watchmen. When Bowe's burnt and headless corpse turns up, Winter is under even more pressure to discover those behind his murder. Aided by the dead man's attractive and possibly duplicitous widow, Madison, the fixer follows a trail of corpses and deception that suggests the killing may have been a staged piece of theater intended to derail Goodman's ascent to the presidency.

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.

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A little different from his other books--but a good read.

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