The Night Crew

by JohnSandford (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $5.94

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $5.35

  Anna Batory is a scavenger. Roaming the streets of LA by night, her video news crew hunt for sensational stories which they can sell to the TV networks. And Anna knows just where to dig to find the stories people want to see. When they film an attack on the UCLA Medical Centre by animal rights activists, Anna's not convinced the networks will go for it. Later the same night, however, they get the scoop they've been hoping for - a teenager jumps from a five-storey hotel window to his death - and all of it's on tape. The networks love it - but for Anna it's the beginning of a dizzying freefall into madness, obsession and murder. Soon, disturbing connections between herself and the dead teenager start coming to light. And then she finds she's being stalked by someone with a frighteningly warped sense of reality. Someone who claims to know her better than she knows herself ...

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.29

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $14.50

  Anna Batory runs the night crew. Small, dark-haired, shy but tough, a Wisconsin farm girl on the streets of Los Angeles, she roams the city with her small band of video free-lancers in their truck from ten to dawn, looking for news: accidents, robberies, murders, demonstrations - anything they can shoot and sell to the local stations or the networks. It's an exhilarating life ... until the day two deaths shake their world. The first is the jumper. Five stories up, perched on the ledge of a hotel window, dark pants, white shirt, just standing there - and then he's gone, falling through the air toward their cameras. The second is Jason, one of Anna's cameramen. Strangely affected by the jumper, he quits the scene early that night, not to be seen again until his body turns up on the beach several hours later, shot in the head. The police wonder if it's drug-related, but Anna isn't so sure, and the more she looks into it on her own, the more the ghosts of the past - hers, Jason's, and finally the jumper's - begin to emerge, until her whole world turns as dark and dangerous as the night itself.