Terror by Night

By: Terry Caffey, James Pence

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

In one evening, Terry Caffey lost everything. His wife, Penny, and his sons, Matthew and Tyler, were brutally murdered; his home was burned to the ground, and his 16-year-old daughter, Erin, was in jail, charged with thiree counts of capital murder.

In one year's time, God would restore it all. At 3:00 a.m. on March 1, 2008, Terry Caffey awoke to find his daughter's former boyfriend standing in the bedroom doorway with a gun. An instant later the teen opened fire, killing Terry's wife and wounding Terry six times. As he slipped toward unconsciousness, Terry heard his son crying upstairs. More gunfire followed. When he regained consciousness, he felt the searing heat of his burning house. Terry knew it was too late to save his family, but even in the midst of the flames, he assigned himself a new mission. He fought to stay awake and escaped the burning house through a bathroom window.

As Terry stumbled and crawled four hundred yards through pitch darkness, he asked God to keep him alive long enough to identify the killer, and then to let him die. God allowed Terry to identify the murderer, but He didn't let Terry die. What happened next is nothing short of miraculous.

©2009 Terry Caffey and James Pence (P)2009 Oasis Audio

Wonderful book

I enjoyed this audio book very much. I enjoy true crime. Here is a book written by a victim soon after the crime. It is well written and held my interest from start to finish. I don't think there is any book like it, giving all the details only an insider would know and so soon after the crime happened. It is riveting to hear the events that led up to the crime and the aftermath. Well written, nicely narrated, just all around excellent and gripping.

Fascinating and Heartbreaking

Fascinating, inspiring story of one man's unthinkable tragedy,survival, and subsequent rebuilding of his life. Narration is excellent--couldn't have picked a better characterization. The only thing I would have changed was the placement of the interview of Terry Caffey at the beginning of the book. For those who are unfamiliar with his story (and I was), it tended to give away too much before the book actually started. It would have been better to have placed the interview at the conclusion of the narration. Other than that, an excellent listen.

Incredible Story

Much more than the brutal murder of a family. Mr. Caffey shares with us how he gets through this horrific tradgedy. It is a real inspiration. I felt the narration could have been better.

A Remarkable and Engrossing Example of Grace

Mr. Chaffee shows the astonishing capacity of the Lord to transform anything and anyone. His journey through excruciating loss and the rebuilding of a new life is compelling, humbling, instructive and well told. The narrator is pitch perfect.

Wonderful, sad, eye opening.

Loved it. Very eye opening to how someone can forgive and over come such a terrible loss.

Therapy for All Who’ve Loved and Lost

First of all, for those who’ve complained about this being a religious book, you’ve completely missed the picture and reason for this man pouring out his heart for all the world to read. He did it for all of us but especially for you, the lost, those of you who apparently love hot weather but I digress. Toward the end, Terry hits the nail in the head when he asks, “.....how does anyone go on after tragedy without having hope?” He’s speaking of the hope in Jesus Christ. Believing in God doesn’t mean unicorns and rainbows 24/7. It doesn’t mean you’re never gonna be mad at Him. It does mean though, “God is good all the time.” It means feeling the prayers of others when you’re too weak to pray for yourself. Knowing God is not like having a magic wand that makes everything perfect, but it is like the marble in Terry’s pocket, always there, God is always there.

Outstanding reader

Maurice England did an outstanding job of reading this book. In itself, this book is a dramatic and compelling story of how faith overcomes tragedy. Maurice England made that story come alive.

Its ok....

The story is written from a Christian world view, laced with bible versus and testimonials. If that's not your bag, move on and watch the dr phil episode about the case. The story is druuuuug out longer than it needs to be in my opinion. If your looking for a spiritual story to lift you up then this is for you. I didn't care for it and it was a struggle to finish.

Great Descriptive story, You won't be disappointed

Would you consider the audio edition of Terror by Night to be better than the print version?

The narration from the victim's standpoint, incredible story of love gone wrong

What did you like best about this story?

The historical information with regards to the family dynamics.

What about Maurice England’s performance did you like?

Good cadence and real southern drawl.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

What went wrong? A family members horrific crime

This story really touched me

I will have to admit that I do cry pretty easily and this story had me crying almost all the way through it. I had wonderful parents growing up, and I had been touched by God when I was a young child. I had even been filled with the Holy Spirit at a young age. But by the time I reached the age of 13 I had such a rebellious heart. I never spoke back to my parents, but during this time there were many days when I would get home from school and I would think today they won't be coming home because they will get killed in a car accident. I was too stupid to realize that my life would be over as I knew it if that had happened. I started getting rebellious in my heart around the age of 11 or 12. In 8th grade I went to 2 different schools because we had moved. In 9th grade I went to 3 different schools but I was only on the 2nd school at the time of my evil heart. I had no friends at the school at this time and I don't remember if my parents were taking me to church during this period. But if you had put a boy in the mix, that would have affected me that much more. Kids can be really stupid, and ungrateful. The Bible says rebellion is like the spirit of witchcraft. This is a great story of an over-comer against all odds.