The Animals after Midnight, Jeff Johnson
The Animals after Midnight, Jeff Johnson
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The Animals after Midnight
A Darby Holland Crime Novel

Author: Jeff Johnson

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2019

Synopsis

In this third novel in the Darby Holland Crime Novel series, Darby’s past rises up to do more than haunt him. You can run, but in the information age you can only hide for so long.Midnight Rider Productions is a dark-web nightmare machine, headed by the one man who years ago drove Darby to hide in the seamy environs of Old Town and make his life there. But Darby left his own mark back in the day and the shadowy head of production has a grudge to settle. Rider has found him at long last and plans to make an example of him.Every dark secret of Darby’s is exposed, every triumph reversed, every dream made real is set on fire, and as the Feds circle, smelling blood in the water, Darby has to run the most brutal rear-guard action in the history of crime-meets-crime and gamble that he has finally grown powerful enough, crazy enough, and hard enough to beat the Devil himself.Meanwhile his best friend and should-be lover Delia, is about to be married to someone with his own dark secrets. With the help of his friends new and old, Darby must save Delia and himself and the rest of the Lucky Supreme faithful as he plays one force against another with desperate brilliance in an epic conflict that rages through the dark underbelly of Portland, Oregon.

About Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson burst onto the literary scene in 2009 with his critically lauded memoir Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink filled with stories from his thirty-year career as a tattoo artist in the Pacific Northwest. Johnson is now a full-time writer, artist, and film maker. He is the author of a modern twist on a werewolf tale, Everything under the Moon; the Darby Holland crime series novels, Lucky Supreme and A Long Crazy Burn; the Philadelphia noir Deadbomb Bingo Ray, and the offbeat Knottspeed, A Love Story.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melisende on February 02, 2019

This is the third and final in the Darby Holland series and directly follows on from "A Long Crazy Burn". Darby is being stalked; the Feds busted his partner; Delia is leaving; crazy Korean gangster tried to kill him; his tattoo shop was blown up; the high body count is scaring off the staff; and now......more

Goodreads review by Annarella on January 08, 2019

I was happy I discovered this series as it's really good. An engaging and entertaining book, full of twist and turns, that never bores you. I loved the style of writing and the well written characters. I look forward to reading other installment in this series. Recommended! Many thanks to the publisher a......more

Goodreads review by Dave on June 13, 2021

I shouldn’t really write a review of a Darby Holland Crime Novel by starting with the last book in the series, but that is the book I’ve just read, and I’d have to read the others again to do a decent review. I discovered the world of Darby Holland and the Lucky Supreme tattoo parlor in Portland’s O......more

Goodreads review by Justin on May 17, 2019

Pretty good overall. Having read the other two books in the series, I was definitely interested in reading this one. While I enjoyed it, like the end, which to me felt a bit rushed and contrived. Aside from that, a pretty fun read.......more

Goodreads review by Travis on April 16, 2020

Nothing really happened for the first 25%, and then the ending was rushed and felt like an incomplete cliff-hanger. Still fun, still a quick read, but I’d hoped for more.........more

Quotes

“This is a really good book full of bad people you’ll sorely miss as soon as you’re not reading about them anymore.” Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author

“Johnson’s engrossing third novel featuring the Portland, Oregon, tattoo parlor and strip-club owner…Elmore Leonard fans should be pleased.” Publishers Weekly

“There is one Portland, Oregon, that is marked by polite, gentrified civility, and then there’s its fever-dream, noir-drenched opposite, a dimension reached by walking out the back door of the Lucky Supreme, the Old Town tattoo parlor dreamed up by Jeff Johnson and overseen by master tattooist Darby Holland, another mind-altering creation of Johnson’s. In this universe, the good guys come from the side-show tents, the bad guys have escaped from the cages, and the mayhem is managed by a ringmaster with a surgeon’s touch and a comic’s timing. Bravo.” Les Standiford, author of Last Train to Paradise

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