Night Squad: A Hard-Boiled Novel of Night Patrol and Urban Crime

By David Goodis

Book Overview

A novel of urban crime and psychological tension, Night Squad follows a police officer working within the pressures and uncertainties of the night shift, where routine patrol gives way to unpredictable conflict.

Set against the backdrop of a city after dark, the narrative traces the experiences of an officer navigating violence, suspicion, and shifting alliances. The work combines procedural elements with a sustained focus on character, presenting law enforcement not as abstraction but as a series of decisions made under pressure.

Goodis develops the story through atmosphere and internal tension, emphasizing isolation, fatigue, and the blurred boundaries between order and disorder. As with his other novels, the focus remains on individuals shaped by circumstance, with the urban environment acting as both setting and influence. The result is a work that reflects mid-twentieth-century crime fiction's concern with mood, psychology, and the limits of control.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515426742
• ISBN13: 9781515426745
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Black Curtain Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

night squad

I enjoyed this book and others by David Goodis. I was in the process of researching philadelphia local history and his books were good resources. He writes stories about Grassroot people. From a victim's point of view. The Majoity of the stories of his that I read center in Fishtown,Kensington, skidrow,Delaware Avenue area,South Philly before the redevelpment tore down those areas described in the book during the 1950s and 1960s to provide for the expressway, I-95 and modern Philadelphia. David P. Goodis' story is well written and characters real.

A David Goodis classic.

David Goodis could have been a Greek tragedy author two thousand years ago. In a riveting and limpid style David goodis classic hero is looking for redemption in a world where the goodies are bad and the baddies are good.