In my opinion, The Night Crew is not as good as the Prey
series, although it’s worth to read because it’s written by John Sandford. The
Prey series were centered in Minneapolis – St Paul , and the
description of the places were vivid, that I was tempted to visit the Twin
Cities if only I had the money.
The Night Crew was set in Los Angeles . The heroine was Anna Batory,
leader of the night crew. With an administrator (Louis) and two cameramen
(Jason and Creek), Anna went around the city to capture video news and sold
them to TV stations. In the beginning of the book, the crew got two stories: an
animal rights raid and a jumper. The next morning, one of Anna’s cameramen,
Jason, turned up dead on a beach, shot to death.
In the course of the investigation, Anna was told by the
police that she had been being stalked and the stalker murdered anyone who had
been closed to her. Guarded by Jake Harper, a lawyer, who believed that the
Jason’s murder connected to the jumper (Harper’s son)’s death – and that the
police was too slow – Anna tried to find who the stalker was.
Compared to John Sandford’s other works, I think the plot
here was not very effective. Anna and Jake Harper went around investigating and
got many false clues. I was also disappointed after the cuprit had been exposed. Anna was familiar with his voice and she thought he was someone she knew. The way he obsessed about her, it seemed he had been like that for a long time. It turned out he was someone she met at the beginning of the story. I read somewhere that John Sandford didn’t
made the sequel because Anna Batory was too much like Lucas Davenport, his Prey
hero. The reader could grasp this when they read how Anna killed her stalker in
the end. Like Davenport Davenport Davenport
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