The Night Crew
by John Sandford
List Price:
Our Price: $5.57
You Save: $4.42 (44%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: John SandfordEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-06-01
ISBN: 0425163385
Number of pages: 355
Publisher: Berkley Books
Book Reviews of The Night Crew
Book Review: The Night Crew has made me an instant John Sandford fan!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first John Sandford book I've read - and I'm an instant fan! Sandford was recommended to my by a flight attendant in 2007 and also by fans of Dean Koontz looking for similar authors. I will probably start reading Sandford's Prey series but I wanted to try some of his stand alone novels first. I have already started reading Dead Watch (Night Watch) and look forward to reading Rough Country later this year.
The opening scene in The Night Crew is extremely intense and the book contains a high-quality of writing throughout. I loved the character of Anna Batory and think Sandford's writing is superb - I like that his writing is so genuine and unforced. I must admit I'm not usually very good at figuring out who did it in a mystery novel, but I thought I had figured out this one - in the end it was someone else.
Here is a sample from The Night Crew :
"I couldn't help noticing that you're carrying a gun."
"Yup." She nodded.
"You got a permit?" he asked.
"Are you kidding?"
"Maybe you should give it to me - the gun," he said.
"Maybe not," Anna said
"I could take it," he suggested.
"Cop takes gun from woman stalked by serial killer who brutally murdered movie actress." She looked over her shoulder at Louis. "Could we get that on the air?"
"Are you kidding?" Louis said. "I could sell it everywhere. But it'd sound better if we said, ' Cop takes gun from woman stalked by serial killer who brutally murdered movie actress, while gangs run wild with assault rifles in South Central.'"
"That is an improvement," Anna said.
"It'd do okay," Louis said. " But if you could get him to rough you up a little bit, we'd get more than we got for the jumper."
"How about it?" Anna said, turning back to Coughlin and batting her eyes. " Do you carry a club or a sap or anything?" Could you push me around a little? I mean, I kind of ... like it."
"Louis said, " ' Cop takes gun from beautiful woman stalked by serial killer who brutally murdered glamorous, drug-abusing "90210" actress, abuses her with baton, while gangs run wild with assault rifles in South-Central -- and she likes it.' "
Coughlin hunched over the steering wheel and shook his head sadly, "Christ, this could be a long night," he said.
Summary of The Night Crew
A mobile unit of video freelancers prowls the streets to sell the footage they capture to the highest network bidder. It is an exhilarating life. But tonight, two deaths will change everything.Anna Batory's evening starts with a frenzied animal rights raid and then moves quickly to the site of a suicide jump. It's all in a normal night's work for Anna, who leads the Night Crew, a freelance video team out to make a quick buck on sensational footage they can sell to L.A. news stations. But this night is different: the jumper is a teenager named Jacob Harper, and Anna's cameraman Jason beats a strangely hasty exit after filming the jump. A few hours later, Jason too is dead: shot and knifed.
Jacob Harper's father is an attractive former cop who works out the connection between his son's death and Jason's. The two young men share a drug dealer--and when Harper finds said dealer dead as well, he calls Anna to the scene and shows her a creepy knife wound on the dealer's body: the name "Anna" carved into his chest. From that moment on, Anna knows she's chasing down a killer who's got a thing for her--but who is it? A series of heart-thumping encounters between Anna and her shadowy stalker keep this thriller moving at the dizzying clip that Sandford's fans expect.
Those who love the Prey series for the quirks and contradictions of its antihero, Lucas Davenport, will find a kindred creation in Anna: an attractive loner, taciturn and tough-minded, a classical pianist with the fighting reflexes of a wild animal. Will Sandford keep bringing her back? Time will tell. --Barrie Trinkle
Literature & Fiction Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Literature & Fiction Books
Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott
Scribner; Published: 1986-06-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.49
Price in other shops:
The Killing Groundby JACK HIGGINS
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LTD; Published: 2007; Hardcover; Book
Saving Fish from Drowningby Amy Tan
4th Estate; Published: 2005; Paperback; Book
Life Expectancyby Dean Koontz
Harpercollins Pb; Published: 2005-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.00
Constant Princessby Philippa Gregory
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster; Published: 2005; Hardcover; Book
Wolf of the Plains (Conqueror, Book 1)by Conn Iggulden
Harper; Published: 2007; Paperback; Book
Saharaby Clive Cussler
Harper Collins Pb; Published: 2005-03-21; Paperback; Book
Perelandra (Cosmic Trilogy)by C. S. Lewis
Voyager; Published: 2005-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.76
Price in other shops:
The Lord Of The Rings: Part 2 The Two Towersby J. R. R. Tolkien
Harper Collins Publishers; Published: 2001; Paperback; Book
Red Marsby Kim Stanley Robinson
Trafalgar Square; Published: 2001-06; Paperback; Book
Similar Books and other products
Sudden Preyby John Sandford
Berkley; Published: 1997-05-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.58
Price in other shops:
Mortal Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 13)by John Sandford
Berkley; Published: 2003-04-29; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.08
Price in other shops:
Certain Preyby John Sandford
Berkley; Published: 2000-03-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.45
Price in other shops:
Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, No. 2)by John Sandford
Berkley; Published: 2009-10-06; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.39
Price in other shops:
Hidden Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 15)by John Sandford
Berkley; Published: 2005-04-26; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops:
Dead Watch (Night Watch)by John Sandford
Berkley; Published: 2007-04-24; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.00
Price in other shops:
The Fool's Run (Kidd)by John Sandford
Berkley; Published: 1996-12-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.63
Price in other shops:
The Devil's Code (Kidd)by John Sandford
Berkley; Published: 2001-10-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.98
Price in other shops:
The Hanged Man's Song (Kidd)by John Sandford
Berkley; Published: 2004-09-28; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
The Empress File (Kidd)by John Sandford, John Camp
Berkley; Published: 1992-11-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.95
Price in other shops: