San Francisco Night: The 6th Jack Nightingale Supernatural Thriller by Stephen Leather (Epub)

Description

Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real. The Apostles – a Satanic coven using murder and torture to pave the way for a demon to enter the real world – realise that Nightingale is on their tail. And unleash their own brand of monsters to take him down. With Nightingale’s life – and his very soul – on the line, he has only days to stop The Apostles from bringing death and destruction to the entire world. Jack Nightingale appears in the full-length novels Nightfall, Midnight, Nightmare, Nightshade and Lastnight. He has his own website at www.jacknightingale.com He also appears in several short stories including Cursed, Still Bleeding, The Tracks and My Name Is Lydia.

User’s Reviews

Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s most successful thriller writers, an eBook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan “Spider” Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country’s most successful eBook authors and his eBooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. –This text refers to the paperback edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I really have enjoyed Nightingale and his adventures. The dark path makes for great departure from Spider’s world. Note; if Jake is supposed to be dead, and the ONA is a world wide organization, maybe Jack shouldn’t use his real name and history that would be really easy for someone to look up.BUT, Leather, you need a new editor or proof reader. A few American terms were a bit off. Just when it was Americans speaking or thinking, but just a few. My gripe is with the typos in this book. Way more than usual for a digitized book. A ‘them’ instead of a ‘they’, a missing ‘an’ or ‘am’. It doesn’t really hurt the story but it interrupts the flow of reading and makes, my brain anyway, have to stop and start building the image of what going on.So, bottom line, if you, like Leather’s works, and a dark element, you will like the Nightingale series, if you were or are an English major you may get distracted by the number of typos in this book.

⭐ It almost seems like someone else wrote this one…or that Leather wrote it in a great hurry without doing a bit of referencing back to his previous volumes.There were numerous errors, not only in regards to Jack Nightingale’s past, but also typos, sentences that just dropped or made no sense, and also in punctuation. I can overlook a few here and there, but there were enough to make it difficult to read.It seems more like his first writing than a finished book. I was very disappointed, as the quality of the first five is part of what kept me going with the series.

⭐ I have been a huge fan of Stephen Leather’s Jack Nightingale since I first blundered into NIGHTFALL, the first in the series, several years ago. Each subsequent novel has grown deeper and richer as Jack and the supporting characters all developed and their back stories and histories became more and more intertwined. Jack started out as a cop working as a crisis negotiator when he fails to prevent a young girl from jumping to her death. This shakes him up so badly he resigns and becomes a PI. There is no hint of anything occult and Jack is just a regular guy. Over the course of the next 4 novels, the very first scene in the NIGHTFALL becomes pivotal in Jack’s emergence as an adept of black magic, and in the eventual ending of the series with 2014’s LASTNIGHT (all the titles contain the word NIGHT). The conclusion of LASTNIGHT, which I believed to be the last in the Nightingale series, ended with Jack barely defeating and escaping an occult group called The Order of the Nine Angles, attending his own funeral and having to leave the UK and all his friends, never to communicate with them again for fear of certain death for them all if the Order should ever suspect that Jack was still alive. End of series (or so I thought).SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT opens with Joshua Wainwright, a billionaire practitioner of the Left Hand Arts, who had helped Jack escape London t the end of LASTNIGHT, and for whom Jack has somehow come to work (I guess I missed something pubished elsewhere that explains how that came to be) setting Jack on an investigation in SF that involves ritual murder, black magic and the potential for the end of the world as we know it. Jack befriends a cute (naturally) SF cop, Amy Chen, who along with Jack dig deeper into what is going on and eventually who is behind it. The short (349 pages on my iPad) novel has almost everything that characterizes and made so popular and addicting the previous Jack Nightingale stories. The excellent writing style, fast pacing, interesting plotting and of course, Jack.But… there is something missing. Several somethings in fact. And these have caused me to think, “Well, of course I liked the novel but what about this… and that. And how and why did Jack do that, and where is the …? And all of that ends up to an Amazon rating of 3.5 (rounded down to 3) stars, which means according to Amazon, “It was OK”. But I think it is by far the weakest of all 6 JACK NIGHTINGALE novels so far. On the flip side, SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT’s existence suggests to me that there will be more of Jack (other than just short stories that take place somewhere in-between the first 5 novels), and that makes me very happy. I’ll be first in line to order them as soon as I hear about them.This novel can be read as a stand-alone and very little of the backstory (“‘It’s complicated”‘) is really crucial to the present events (more’s the pity). There is flirting but no sex (not the fun kind anyway), but no shortage of Leather’s patented scenes of gory and gruesome murder and mayhem. In keeping with the “no spoilers” promise, the reasons for my unusually low ranking are withheld from this review but if you are curious, you can flip to the first comment where I will discuss them briefly.Recommended, but only for fans of JACK NIGHTINGALE – for others, maybe not.JM Tepper

⭐ “If you’re going to San FranciscoBe sure to wear some flowers in your hairIf you’re going to San FranciscoYou’re gonna meet some gentle people there”- lyrics from the 1967 song SAN FRANCISCOIn SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT by Stephen Leather, former-London cop and now-private detective Jack Nightingale elbows his way into the epicenter of all that is bizarre and perverted (but, hey, always politically correct!) in the United States, i.e. California, and more specifically, San Francisco. Indeed, the Dark Side forces he faces there make his previous five full-length adventures back home in Merrie Olde England seem like just mucking about on the periphery of the demon world.Here, Jack is on a mission for the mysterious occultist Joshua Wainright, who can be counted upon at least once every book to invite Nightingale aboard his private jet for drinks and a chin-wag. In SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT, Joshua is using Jack to hopefully bring down an extremely nasty, ungentle group of devil worshipers who self-style themselves as The Apostles and seem to be cavorting dangerously close to the San Andreas Fault.As one reads through this thriller, one might be tempted to infer that Nightingale’s confrontation with Evil this time around is, or will prove to be, epic. And it is, up to a point, and still deserves four stars as an above-average yarn. After reading to the end, however, I was regrettably left with the nagging feeling that author Stephen Leather left something on the table. The conclusion didn’t seem to me as apocalyptic as it potentially promised; it seemed perhaps rushed. And, since one of my favorite characters in the series is the demon Proserpine – always appearing as a Goth girl with her pet collie – and with whom Jack seems to have a chary need/hate relationship, I felt her one visitation here was cursory and pretty much an afterthought. I thought at the end she should’ve at least given Nightingale a high five for his efforts. Indeed, it’s to savor the all too infrequent interactions between Jack and Proserpine that I’ll continue to pay attention.

⭐ Detective Nightingale now works for Joshua. He gets set down in San Francisco to investigate a coven known as the Apostles. He teams up with an officer after surviving the attack of an elemental. The usual body count increases as Jack finds others to help his investigations and they are targeted. He saves the day, but allows the police officer to take all the credit. Good character development and action. A page Turner. It is a good read.

⭐ I’ve read all of this series to date and this one is just “okay”. I realize it is hard to keep a series fresh and not formulaic, but placing Jack in San Francisco did not keep this from happening. While there was plenty of gore (typical for the series) the plot was really thin and the characters seemed be going through the motions. A shame for a series that started out so strong. I am not ready to give up yet, but if the next book is like this one, I am likely done. Perhaps it’s time for Jack to retire and open up a B & B with Mrs. Steadman.

⭐ Jack Nightingale (aka Bird Man) is well, sort of a occult – ghost buster – super natural – detective. The setting is San Francisco – hey, that’s is where I live. It was fun to read about things and places that I know. This is part of a series —- please (and I am serious here) try to read the series in order. That way you’ll know all the background for Jack and his friends. Leather is a top notch British writer – writes for television, novels, and newspapers. Although some of the plots are farfetched, you can imagine that they just could occur. There is a touch of humor in Leather’s writing — pure fun to read!

⭐ Overall I liked the book, but unlike the other books in the series, it seemed like the ending was straightforward. Oddly, it was almost a twist because nothing unusual/supernatural happened at the end. Also, no mention is made of Jenny or anyone else from his previous life. I thought they would make a reference to Jenny when he was getting closer to the San Francisco detective, but no luck there.It’s a solid read and has some good suspense. Overall I would recommend it.

⭐ Stephen Leather’s Jack Nightingale series eclipses his writings on the SAS with his forays into the dark side of human beliefs.However this novel, while entertaining, is more of the same, and the series is becoming rather predictable.Possibly churning out too many stories at once results in a sausage factory approach to the craft.Buy it, read it, enjoy it- but don’t expect a great story or any unexpected twists…..

⭐ Stephen is an excellent story teller and the series is extremely well written. Make no mistake, this series is adult reading material with gory details. For those who like supernatural thriller stories was exceptional imagination and exciting imaginative story line this book and series is right for you. I highly recommend reading this series.

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