Nightwing, Martin Cruz Smith
Nightwing, Martin Cruz Smith
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Nightwing

Author: Martin Cruz Smith

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/30/2019


Synopsis

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).

About Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky ParkStallion GateNightwingPolar StarStalin’s GhostRoseDecember 6TatianaThe Girl from VeniceThe Siberian Dilemma, and Independence Square. 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bobby

I’ve stopped being surprised by terrible reads which are way overhyped, and deluged with five-star ratings. By the same token I’m no longer surprised by very good reads either ignored completely, or rated too low. I read this novel as a teenager when it first came out decades ago, and gave it anothe......more

Goodreads review by Scott

Another classic horror novel that Grady Hendrix should consider for his Paperbacks from Hell collection... Humans have been telling horror stories around the campfire about the dangers of the creatures of the night probably since before there were campfires. Second only to stories of creation (the “w......more

Goodreads review by Paul

Night falls, and vampire bats rise from caves in the deserts of the American Southwest to launch massed attacks – first against livestock, and then against people. It may sound like a standard horror-novel premise; but in the hands of novelist Martin Cruz Smith, Nightwing (1977) spins a resonant, my......more

-Demasiado elaborado para ser solo un thriller.- Género. Novela. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Alas de noche (publicación original: Nightwing, 1977) nos presenta a Youngman Duran, un indio hopi que trabaja como delegado, una especie de sheriff sin serlo, en una reserva de Mesa Negra. Su amigo Abner, un......more

Goodreads review by Jon

In Rob Nixon's superb book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor he asserts that there isn't a great anti-oil novel/movement the same way there's a great body of anti-coal/industrialization literature. That might be a fair assertion. But then I read Martin Cruz Smith's Nightwing, which......more