
The Devil Takes You Home
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Jean-Marc Berne
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By:
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Gabino Iglesias
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.
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Critic reviews
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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Great book
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thriller with a dash of the occult
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Brilliant Beautiful and Horrifying
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Every great hero dies.
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Gruesome and timely
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It’s ok.
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I cry a lot so that's not really too strange.
The story is as gorgeous as it is heartbreaking and the narration brings the foreign elements home to roost.
Although I needed a pint of ice cream when I finished this I wouldn't have traded a minute.
Five stars for sheer emotional gravitas.
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Great story
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Genre-defying novels are my new favorite thing. I tend to like crime novels, creepy horror novels, and also political and social commentary novels, so when I read reviews of The Devil Takes You Home that described this book as having all of the above, I knew I wanted to read it.
Overall I liked the writing style and the very creative plot. I even had sympathy for the main character, even though he was a fairly horrible person. Some parts had a dark humor that made me chuckle and one part caused me to have a nightmare.
My least favorite sections of the book were the repetitive inner monologues that the main character has as he obsessively rehashes his predicament and rationalizes his decisions. It’s never enjoyable to listen to someone perseverate for hours, not in real life and not in a novel.
I think anyone who likes horror would enjoy reading this book. Even though large portions of it don’t have horror scenes and are not very scary, the parts that are terrifying are really intense and incredibly well written. If gore and graphic violence bothers you in a book, you might not want to read this one.
About a third of the book is in Spanish but I was able to understand it from context even though I don’t speak Spanish. I like the use of language to convey the feeling of being there with the characters as they speak to each other. They obviously are going to talk Spanish to each other and it would have felt unrealistic to have them speaking English.
I’m interested to read more by this author since he seems to have a lot of excellent and unique ideas.
Genre defying
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Creative and Unique
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