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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780425163382
ISBN number: 0425163385
Label: Berkley Books
Manufacturer: Berkley Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 355
Printing Date: June 01, 1998
Publishing house: Berkley Books
Release Date: April 06, 2004
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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.
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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
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This was an excellent John Sanford book. Since finding this author i have purchased all of his books andd have read everyone of them. All were excellent and would recommend to any mystery/thriller reader.
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It's a good John Sandford. I admit Lucas Davenport is my favorite from the Prey series. I did like Lucas better as a bachelor. He's a bit boring now that he's married, but The Night Crew will keep you up late with them until the last page. I guess even John Sandford needs to get out of Minnesota once in a while so he takes us to Los Angeles for a change and it is an exciting change. I did think I knew the bad guy at times, but I wasn't certain until the very end. It's an old Sandford but a good one. Anna Batory is an interesting character. She is tough, intelligent and relentless. Give it a try. It's worth it.
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I have not read anything else by this author but definately will. This book was very enjoyable and kept my interest through the entire reading. Anna Batory deserves a sequel. She is a great heroine. Reading this book, I was wondering who would play her in a movie version of this story. The only thing I would change about this book...It could have ended about 2 pages sooner.
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Anna Battory is the star of John Sandford's stand alone thriller, "The Night Crew." Sandford is best know for his Prey series featuring Lucas Davenport. This novel revolves around a group of people roaming Los Angeles at night trying to film newsworthy events and sell them to local and national television networks.
Anna and her crew film an animal rights group raiding a research lab at UCLA, then they stumble on a distraught high school kid on the ledge of a hotel. The kid jumps, the crew films it, and they sell it to all the networks. Then a member of the crew, Jason, winds up dead.
The novel summary says the suicide and Jason's murder are two murders that drive the plot. And they do, but not in a relevant way. Also, the father of the suicidal teen shows up bent on finding out what happened to his son. He was an okay character, except for the fact that little was done about his pain over his son's suicide. Anna and her crew are all portrayed solidly, and Anna was given more background and depth than Lucas Davenport has in any of the Prey books, yet this book wasn't as near as fun as the worst Prey books.
Anna and Harper, the kid's dad, investigate the killings but the investigation lacks the depth or the twists that Sandford is so good at in the Prey series.
This was a fun, quick book to read, but not as exciting as the Prey series. Still, I'd recommend it to all Sandford fans.
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John Sandford's straight-forward mystery "The Night Crew" tells the story of Anna Batory as she tracks down a twisted, mysterious killer who stalks her, brutalizes her friends, and leaves a trail of bodies everywhere he goes. It's not for the faint-hearted or squeamish - there's enough gore and mayhem to satisfy the thriller genre crossovers.
Anna Batory is a capable, modern woman who leads a weird sort of paparazzi crew through that part of L.A.'s nighttime mess that people want to see on their television sets: Murder, Rape, Robbery, Assault, Burglary, Larceny, and Motor Vehicle Theft. The wetter, the messier, or flashier the better! Anna and her gang of commercial photographers trail mayhem rather than celebrities and sell their video footage to the highest bidders who pay handsomely. Anna and her gang knock down 6 figure incomes and have a satellite truck of their very own. The "Night Crew" is very good at finding stories and getting the best video shots of them possible.
The story opens when they cover an (staged) animal liberation raid on a warehouse and jump cut to a suicide jumper and his drug induced high dive shot with multiple cameras and perspectives. The jumper, a high school student, is high on a drug called wizards. The subsequent morning Anna learns that one of her cameramen has been murdered. More murders follow and when Anna's name is carved into the flesh of a victim, Anna teams up with Jake Harper, the dead student's father, to find out why all this is happening.
The story's action bounces between Anna's hunt for the killer who's pursuing her, Jake Harper's hunt for the drug dealers who sold his son the Wizards, and "The Two Faced Man" who delights in murder, torture and blood-soaked sexual fantasy. It's a decent story however marred by character slips, jarring coincidence and plot disconnection. One of the most shocking character slips happens when a morally "hardened" Anna criticizes Jake for "merely" breaking the legs of the drug dealer who sold his son the wizards. She follows that thought up at the end of story in such a way that it breaks the romance that developed between her and Jake. Is it simply coincidence that Anna's cameraman's girlfriend looks so much like Anna that the stalker killer confuses them?
The second half of the story is much, much better than the first. The action picks up and the characterization fits more closely with the "Prey" work that Sandford is famous for.
Sandford's development of the romance between Anna and Jake is unexpected and so roughly done that it invites suspicion that Sandford doesn't have much of hand for writing mystery and softer focus romance in a way that enhances the effect of both. The very first touches between Anna and Jake happen are unprepared and clumsily drawn. Though both characters are later described in terms akin to sexual athletics, inevitably Anna's thoughts turn to the man who is trying to murder her even as Jake labors between her legs.
The story ends abruptly. Rather than summarizing the action and retiring the characters comfortably, Sandford presents an epilogue set some months after the climax of the story. Jake is breaking up with Anna for reasons that are perfectly understandable - Anna is not the kind of person that you really want to spend another minute with if you help it.
The audio quality of the audiotape presentation is terrible to the point of being almost unlistenable. The narrative voice is flat and monotonous. The vocalizations of the characters are extremely loud in comparison. The difference between the two presentations that are combined in this story is so radical that you need to listen to this story with one hand on the volume control.
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