The Night Crew

The Night Crew

by John Sandford
The Night Crew

The Night Crew

by John Sandford

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Overview

#1 New York Times 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.

A mobile unit of video freelancers, the Night Crew 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...

“With its pulse-quickening plot and attractive heroine, you’ll be hooked to the finish.”—People


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780425163382
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/01/1998
Series: Night Crew , #1
Pages: 432
Sales rank: 105,882
Product dimensions: 6.74(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.97(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of the Prey novels, the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, and six other books, including three YA novels co-authored with his wife Michele Cook.

Hometown:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Date of Birth:

February 23, 1944

Place of Birth:

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Education:

State University of Iowa, Iowa City: B.A., American History; M.A., Journalism

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“With its pulse-quickening plot and attractive heroine, you’ll be hooked to 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

 

Interviews

Before the live bn.com chat, John Sandford agreed to answer some of our questions.

Q:  What are the first lines of literature or poetry that come to mind?

A:  To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane,
But that the fear of something after death
Murders the innocent sleep,
Great nature's second course
And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune
Than to fly to others that we know not of.

Q:  Describe one thing in life that you have done but are glad you never have to do again.

A:  Almost everything -- but I once solo paddled a canoe down the Mississippi from the source in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Sixty-nine days of mostly misery, which I remember fondly, and would never, ever do again....

Q:  Can you recall the most sensuously indulgent meal you've ever had? What was it, and can you share the recipe?

A:  Nope. Not into food. Probably a candy bar someplace ugly. I have a deep-seated affection for Almond Joy -- despite their habit of being half-melted when you get them -- but I don't know why. Maybe therapy would bring it out.

Q:  How does journalism and writing novels compare? Are you still involved in journalism?

A:  The key difference -- and I mean this seriously, as it is the one problem that most journalists can't deal with -- is length. Most journalists are unable (for lots of different reasons, including boredom) to create a unified whole story that stretches out 100,000 words or more and takes months of actual writing time. I still do occasional journalism and would like to do more. I consider myself a newspaper guy on a long coffee break.

Q:  We have heard you are involved with an archaeological dig. How did you get started?

A:  Ah, my favorite subject. For the Internet-enabled, which I guess everybody here would be, check www.rehov.org for an extended rundown, with pictures, of the dig. I've had a lifelong reading interest in history and archaeology (most recent work read: the three-volume Byzantium by John Julius Norwich), and in fact majored in history and lit in college. I got serious about archaeology a few years back, went around looking at digs and sites, last year spent some hard time on a dig at Beth Shean in Israel, and now I'm involved in a heavy way with a new dig at a place called Tel Rehov, which is a half an hour by car south of the Sea of Galilee.

Q:  What is it like?

A:  It's very hot, dusty, butt-kicking work, and totally fascinating. Last year we cleared the iron age walls of Beth Shean, which are the very walls (well, okay, maybe) where the Philistines hung the bodies of King Saul and his sons after they killed them in a battle near Mt. Gilboa.... This year we've got a bit of a mystery on our hands: a very large, untouched tel, obviously the remains of a city, but a city we know hardly anything about. We surveyed it this spring, found pottery from the bronze through the Ottoman eras, which covers the better part of 3,000 years...great stuff. And we're looking for volunteers -- see the web site.

Q:  The Night Crew is clearly not a Prey novel. Why? Are you currently writing a Prey novel, or do you plan to do something else for a while?

A:  I am currently writing a Prey novel. The Night Crew was meant as a break after eight years of Lucas Davenport, but now I'm back, and this one feels pretty good. I don't know if I'll go back to the Night Crew again, but it is a possibility. I liked the Anna Batory character, and Creek, and I'm not sure I'm done with them.

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