Nightwing
Nightwing book cover

Nightwing

Paperback – June 25, 2019

Price
$15.04
Format
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1501199714
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.7 x 8.38 inches
Weight
7.2 ounces

Description

"A one-sitting book...laced with love and terror."xa0 ― Los Angeles Herald Examiner "High excitement! More than a mere shocker...it is a full book, anxa0altogether first-rate work." -- A.B. B. Gutherie, Jr."Exciting...gripping...excruciating!" ― Boston Globe "Blood curdling fun...almost impossible to put down!" ― Chicago Tribune Book World "Blisteringly effective... Nightwing reduces Dracula to the level of a minor Transylvanian disturbance…It’s genuinely terrifying and so skillfully done that you can only believe, shudder, and pull the covers up over your head.”xa0 ― Cosmopolitan “This soars above the average calamity novel…will make your hair stand on end!” ― Hartford Courant Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky Park , Stallion Gate , Nightwing , Polar Star , Stalin’s Ghost , Rose , December 6 , Tatiana , The Girl from Venice , and The Siberian Dilemma . He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award and Britain’s Golden Dagger Award, and a winner of the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.

Features & Highlights

  • From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of
  • Gorky Park
  • , comes a reissue of
  • Nightwing
  • ,
  • the million-copy bestseller that Stephen King called “one of the best horror novels in the last twenty years.”
  • As darkness gathers, the sky is filled with frantic motion and maddening murmurs. In an effort to end the world, an unhappy, aging Native American shaman invokes the Hopi god of death. Those around him remain skeptical, dismissing him as crazy old man. Then they discover his mutilated, bloody body and soon other similarly disfigured bodies begin to appear. Horses, sheep, cattle—no living thing is safe. But what is causing the horrible deaths? Deputy Sheriff Duran is called back to the reservation to investigate. Immediately, Duran recognizes the significance of the shaman’s spell and, with the help of two scientists, he works to combat the supernatural scourge—before there’s nothing left to save. Written “in the tradition of Stephen King” (
  • Kirkus Reviews
  • ),
  • Nightwing
  • is part love triangle, part Native American case study, part supernatural thriller…and “genuinely horrifying” (
  • The Washington Post Book World
  • ).

Customer Reviews

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Very early Martin Cruz Smith

I liked the original premise and thriller aspects. However, this is nothing like his later books, notably including the Arkady Renko series, and Rose. Characters are more shallow and the literary level is prosaic. His masterpieces are Gorky Park and Red Square which are brilliant, both as literature and highly original detective thrillers.
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Nightwing

This was an excellent story that was well researched by the author. It drew me in right from the start and kept my interest throughout the entire novel. I highly recommend it.
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Good Book

I bought this after reading Gorki Park by this author. This is a very good book. I've enjoyed this author.
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thought

book was good -- thought the movie version was better....