The Night Crew, John Sandford
The Night Crew, John Sandford
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The Night Crew

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 10 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/25/2012


Synopsis

Bestselling author John Sandford takes all the action and suspense of his acclaimed Prey novels and heads west to the dark gleam of L.A.--where the Night Crew works. A mobile unit of video freelancers, they prowl the midnight streets to sell to the highest network bidder. Murders. Robberies. High-speed chases. For them, it is an exhilerating life. But tonight, two deaths will change everything.

About John Sandford

American author, John Sanford (a pseudonym of John Roswell Camp) wrote thirty-five novels, all of which are on the New York Times bestsellers list in one way or another. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1944, where he spent much of his time with his Lithuanian grandparents. Their home was very primitive with an outside outhouse and a subsistence garden. Life was work centered on the farm with hay being bailed each summer to feed the various farm animals. Fruit trees were also in abundance on their property. It was a good place to grow up.

Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He also wrote two non-fiction books. The Eye and the Heart: The Water Colors of John Stuart Ingle, and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.

Camp was married to Susan Lee Jones, and has two children. Susan died in May 2007 of metastasized breast cancer, and he married again in 2013 to Michele Cook, a journalist and screenwriter. Camp is a dedicated painter and photographer also. He, however, does not show his paintings.

Camp's most prolific work is the Prey series of which there are currently twenty-five installments, running from 1989 - 2015.......the first being Rules of Prey and the most recent, Gathering Prey, which debuted on April 28, 2015. Other series include The Kidd Series, The Virgil Flowers Series, The Singular Menace Series, and other various books and short stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on May 08, 2020

I started to read this book and realize I have read it before. My husband did not like this book so I am not going to re-read it to see if I did or did not like it.........more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 13, 2018

I liked it & it's a solid mystery-thriller, but felt a bit phoned in. It should have been better since there is some gender reversal that was pretty well done, but somehow the story never really grabbed me. One of my GR friends (Hey, James) said that it was too formulaic & he didn't feel the geograp......more

Goodreads review by Eric on April 09, 2022

Nice change of pace from the Davenport/Flowers novels.......more

Goodreads review by Bethel on May 12, 2018

Good book with a real twist to a moving on story......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on September 29, 2009

I know that many people disliked this book because it's a departure from Sandford's Lucas Davenport series. For my money, while a solid read, they had become too formulaic. Night Crew takes place in Los Angeles instead of Minneapolis and follows Anna Batory, a freelance videographer who roams the ci......more


Quotes

“With its pulse-quickening plot and attractive heroine, you’ll be hookedto the finish.” —People “This is riveting, intense crime fiction...lean and mean...replete with bursts of black prose that zap the reader like quick video cuts.” Cedar Rapids Gazette “A terrifying chase that doesn't relent until the final page.” St. Paul Pioneer Press Sandford’s machine-gun style and his stylish new heroine make The Night Crew an experience worth repeating.” —Orlando Sentinel “Exceptional...gritty...compelling.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer