Night Wings

Shockers Series

by John Peel

The recipient of the world's first artificial neck, seventeen-year-old Rob is offered a job by a mysterious visitor as a vampire hunter.

Genres: Horror

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

John Peel is the author of Doctor Who books and comic strips. Notably, he wrote the first original Doctor Who novel, Timewyrm: Genesys, to launch the Virgin New Adventures line. In the early 1990s he was commissioned by Target Books to write novelisations of several key Terry Nation Dalek stories of the 1960s after the rights were finally worked out. He later wrote several more original Daleks novels.

He has the distinction of being one of only three authors credited on a Target novelisation who had not either written a story for the TV series or been a part of the production team (the others were Nigel Robinson and Alison Bingeman).

Outside of Doctor Who, Peel has also written novels for the Star Trek franchise. Under the pseudonym "John Vincent", he wrote novelisations based upon episodes of the 1990s TV series James Bond Jr..

Reviews

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a pretty good book about a teenager with a metal neck who becomes a vampire hunter after being offered money to do so. check it Night Wings. ^_^

[Caitlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book offers no profound insight into life, but I deeply enjoyed it's ridiculously corny style, after all I was a ball of pubescent angst at the time I read it. It fed my fantasy of meeting some boy who was a little strange and different and therefor less of a threat to me...although the boy in this story is a vampire assassin and later succumbs to his once enemy and ultimately ends up sucking the blood from rats.

[BRANDON · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story was so weird it reminded me of old Twilight Zone episodes. A horrible car accident left Rob Jensen with a experimental cervical prosthetic which made him the perfect weapon against a certain kind of fiend. When offered wealth and respect beyond his wildest dreams, the power went to his head blurring the lines between monster and man. Once again there was a twist ending or two (though this entire narrative seems a bit twisted) which seems to be a hallmark of Peel's Shockers series. I intend to read the rest just for giggles.

[Erica Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some thoughts:

- lolllll at communists being behind the ~great vampire cover-up
- i was #teamvampire from the first showdown
- sadistic douchey money-hungry vampire hunter is The Worst and deserves what’s coming to him
- pleasantly surprised at the appearance of VAMPIRE RAT ARMY

I want this to be a video game so bad

Bizarre and unexpectedly violent, but enjoyable nonetheless

[horrorboob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Better then twilight maybe even a prequel to the volturi !!! Short book with no loose ends ! Great ending and the plot takes a turn rooting for evil !