Join #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandord for this exciting virtual event celebrating the release of Ocean Prey. Fan-favorite heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces in his latest novel. The propulsive and electrifying adventure is the 31^st entry in the Prey series and the 13^th book to star Virgil Flowers. Sandford will be joined in conversation by journalist and novelist Carl Hiaasen.

John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Roswell Camp. He is the author of twenty-nine Prey novels, four Kidd novels, twelve Virgil Flowers novels, and three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook.

Carl Hiaasen has published Skin Tight, Native Tongue and eleven national bestsellers – Strip Tease, Lucky You, Sick Puppy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip, Squeeze Me and more, all set in Florida, where they are read more as documentary than fiction. He has also penned popular novels for young readers, including bestseller Hoot, which won a Newbery Honor and was made into a feature film.

About Ocean Prey

An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. None of it makes sense unless there's something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed.

They're federal officers killed on the job, which means the case is the FBI's turf. When the FBI's investigation stalls out, they call in Lucas Davenport. And when his case turns lethal, Davenport will need to bring in every asset he can claim, including a detective with a fundamentally criminal mind: Virgil Flowers.

You must register to participate in this live, online event. You will receive a link to participate by email. Space is limited.

This event is co-presented with Westchester Public Library and a group of Illinois libraries.

Thank you to Anderson's Bookshop for supporting the event with book sales. Purchase a copy of Ocean Prey with an autographed bookplate here (enter coupon code "library")