The Night Crew | John Sandford

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The Night Crew

	The Night Crew John Sandford Berkley Books, 1998 - 355 pages average customer review:based on 73 reviews view larger image
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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.

full of suspense

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.

John Sandford in Top Form

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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Anna Batory deseerves a sequel

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.

Sandford's stand alone thriller kind of boring

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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