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...DAN VINING......................... Los Angeles, 2025. A brutal drought throughout the West has plunged Los Angeles into a new state of crisis. Traffic congestion has forced all emergency services — cops, EMTs, even fire trucks — into the air.
Born in Philadelphia, the son of a Navy gunnery officer, grew up in Virginia, Key West, San Diego, and Daytona Beach. University of Florida at Gainesville, alternately an English major/Journalism major/English major, studying fiction with Smith Kirkpatrick and Harry Crews, poetry with Lawrence Hetrick.
A dystopian future that feels too close to home, Dan Vining's NightSun grapples with what it means to search for connection, solace, and home within a chaotic new world.
“Thriller writer Dan Vining ( Among the Living) deftly combines mystery and dystopia in NightSun. Set in 2025 Los Angeles, this world features a severe drought, cheap energy and traffic so bad that emergency personnel have taken to the sky.
Dan Vining has worked as a screenwriter, newspaper reporter, and writer and editor at Rolling Stone. He was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, where he also taught.
So are a sudden rash of murders, the memories of an obsessive never-forgotten affair—and the lies about Lucy and his own past, which are far less frightening than the truth. “Dan Vining has reinvented the hard-boiled detective genre and given it a supernatural twist.”—Jeff Long, author of The Wall.
Book 1. The Quick. by Dan Vining. 3.18 · 73 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2004 · 2 editions. While searching for the person responsible for kil… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. The Next. by Dan Vining. 3.28 · 39 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 11 editions. A private detective and a member of the "Sailors"-… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 1&2.
