The Devil Takes You Home
A Novel
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The Devil Takes You Home
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Narrated by:
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Jean-Marc Berne
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Written by:
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Gabino Iglesias
About this listen
From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family—even if it means a descent into violence.
Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won’t return the same.
The Devil Takes You Home is a panoramic odyssey for fans of S.A. Cosby’s southern noir, Blacktop Wasteland, by way of the boundary-defying storytelling of Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
©2022 Gabino Iglesias (P)2022 Mulholland BooksWhat the critics say
One of Harper’s Bazaar's Best, Buzziest New Books of 2022
One of Crimereads 16 Horror Novels to Look Out for This Year
"Pure noir, overflowing with the rage and sorrow of our times, The Devil Takes You Home is brutal, hallucinatory, and somehow, beautiful. This novel confirms what some of us already knew: Gabino Iglesias is a fierce, vital voice." (Paul Tremblay, best-selling author of Survivor Song)
"Some nightmares you wake from just leave you in an even worse nightmare. And then Gabino Iglesias holds his hand out from that darkness, takes you home." (Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians)
"An intoxicating story of a man in desperate financial straits who turns himself into a hitman and accepts a highly dangerous contract on a cartel transport operation. The job takes him and two others across Texas and further into an abyss of violence, existential dread, and paranormal happenings” (Crimereads)
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- Michelle Lemieux
- 2022-08-11
I've been waiting for this!
I've been waiting a while for this book and it did not disappoint amazing twists, interesting characters and heart-wrenching plot. I don't understand Spanish, so I lost a bit of what was being said, but it didn't take away from the enjoyment of reading and it didn't confuse me on the overall storyline. it felt authentic and very natural.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Lawrence MacTaggart
- 2022-12-26
A Flashlight into dark,ghost,divides of America.
A gripping, descent into pain and darkness. Many levels, beyond graphic yet poetic. Searing images.
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