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The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias audiobook

The Devil Takes You Home: A Novel

By Gabino Iglesias
Read by Jean-Marc Berne

Mulholland Books, Mulholland, Hachette Book Group 9780316426916
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In this genre-deyfing, award-winning thriller, a desperate father journeys into the criminal underworld to save his family—but soon begins to lose sight of himself and what he set out to do. 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.    Named a best book of the year by: NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Tribune, Vulture, Oprah Daily, CrimeReads, The Millions, and many more! An Edgar Award Finalist • A Bram Stoker Award Winner • A Shirley Jackson Award Winner • A Book of the Month Club Pick • An August Indie Next List Selection • An ABA Indie Bestseller

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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

Finalist for the Edgar Award

Finalist for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Award

Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award for Fiction

A Harper’s Bazaar Pick of 2022's Best Books

A Chicago Tribune Book of the Year

An Oprah Daily Pick of Best Books of 2022

A CrimeReads Pick of Best Books of the Year

An NPR Best Book of the Year

A Millions.com Pick of 2022's Best Books

A Vulture.com Pick of Best Books of 2022

A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection

An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in Mystery & Suspense

In this genre-deyfing, award-winning thriller, a desperate father journeys into the criminal underworld to save his family—but soon begins to lose sight of himself and what he set out to do.

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.   

Named a best book of the year by: NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Tribune, Vulture, Oprah Daily, CrimeReads, The Millions, and many more!

An Edgar Award Finalist • A Bram Stoker Award Winner • A Shirley Jackson Award Winner • A Book of the Month Club Pick • An August Indie Next List Selection • An ABA Indie Bestseller

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“[A] haunting noir thriller.” —New York Times
“There are real scares and supernatural ones, all enveloped in a propulsive, unforgettable journey.” —Austin American-Statesman
“One part road narrative, one part waking nightmare, and one part revelation.” —Tor.com
“A gory journey through Texas and Mexican border towns…The incongruity of devotion to family with brutal vigilante justice creates dreadful tension as Mario tests his new moral compass.” —Washington Post
“Iglesias’s take on the one last job genre is a mediation on grief and rage.” —Vanity Fair
One of Harper’s Bazaar's Best, Buzziest New Books of 2022 One of Crimereads 16 Horror Novels to Look Out For This Year "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
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, bestselling author of SURVIVOR SONG —
The Devil Takes You Home begins with pain. Like life, it starts with tears. It ends with transcendence. In between we are treated to some of the finest, most terrifying and heartbreaking writing you will read this year. Gabino Iglesias is like one of the old baroque masters, painting hyper-realistic images directly into your brain. Images that will make you cry, make you gasp, and make you see the world in a new light. The Devil Takes You Home is not to be missed.”  —S.A. Cosby, New York Times-bestselling author of RAZORBLADE TEARS and BLACKTOP WASTELAND —
The Devil Takes You Home is carried by a voice and rhythm, shaving sharp and wholly indelible. Iglesias never fails to keep a masterful foot on the pedal, feathering off the gas at times only to inevitably press it to the floor and pin us to our seats. —David Joy, author of WHEN THESE MOUNTAINS BURN
“Strap yourself in for this astonishing novel and its hallucinogenic mixture of crime and horror. Unforgettable characters, a pulse-pounding story, and a few scenes that will haunt you until the end of your days. Not since Denis Johnson’s Angels have we seen desperate characters like this, not to mention incandescent prose that is relentlessly brave, urgent, and honest. A page-turner with attitude…don’t miss it.”—David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Anthony and Thriller Award-winning author of Winter Counts —
A grim rumination on the vacuum of loss, and who we become when we try to fill those gaps. Here there be bloodshed, oh yes, sudden lyrical frenzies peppers over the main course of calamity. Every time you think the book got quiet, it screams again. And note: you’ll never look at bolt cutters or crocodiles the same way again. —Josh Malerman, New York Times-bestselling author of Bird Box and Daphne
Though a young writer, Gabino Iglesias writes with the authority of a writer who’s been down this road many times before. The Devil Takes You Home moves at a lively pace and concerns a man who isn't any better than he ought to be but not a whole lot worse either. In classic noir fashion he becomes involved in messes he ought to have left alone, let others sort it out, but he just can't seem to do that. Iglesias' prose is smooth where smooth is called for and rough or a bit mean when smooth won't work. —Daniel Woodrell, award-winning author of Winter’s Bone
Full of violent truths, The Devil Takes You Home is one of the best books I have read in a long time. An incredible, unforgettable read. —Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger and The Fervor
A ragged-edged bloody bullet-hole of a book — Iglesias has written a dark-hearted tale about the burden of loss, the struggle of poverty, and the long and literal shadow of death. —Chuck Wendig, bestselling author of WANDERERS
Gabino Iglesias is a writer like no other, with a powerful, distinctive, savage voice that transcends genre. In The Devil Takes You Home, he blends elements of noir, thriller, and horror into a brutal and brilliant novel. Brace yourself for the ride—this is his best work yet. —Jennifer Hillier, Thriller Award-winning author of Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts
An excellent crime novel driven by righteous grief, fierce narration, and raw violence. Iglesias takes us on a vivid exploration of pain and rage, along the Southwest border where the horrors of reality and the supernatural intertwine. —John Woods, author of LADY CHEVY
The line between noir and horror not only gets blurred in Iglesias's The Devil Takes You Home; it gets obliterated. His barrio noir is a new kind of fiction, profoundly moving, despairing and scary all at once.”  —Brian Evenson, author of LAST DAYS —
“The Devil Takes You Home is an unforgettable neo-noir nightmare written with a poet's heart. —Steve Cavanagh, bestselling author of the Eddie Flynn series
"The Devil Takes You Home is a wild ride through grief, faith, loss and monstrosity. Gabino Iglesias's sharp prose and visceral, haunting vision have birthed a riveting novel no reader will soon forget. Fresh and genuinely scary."—Tananarive Due, American Book Award-winner author of Ghost Summer and My Soul to Keep, producer of Shudder’s Horror Noire, and UCLA professor of Horror and Afrofuturism —
"With a noir voice reminiscent of Jim Thompson, this book charges into rage and despair, sparing no one, least of all the reader. Strap yourself in."—Chris Offutt, author of The Killing Hills and Country Dark —
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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Author Bio: Gabino Iglesias

Author Bio: Gabino Iglesias

Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist, professor, and literary critic. His novel, The Devil Takes You Home, won the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and his reviews appear regularly in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He has been a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards and the Millions Tournament of Books and is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Mystery Writers of America, and the National Book Critics Circle.

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Available Formats : CD
Category: Fiction/Thrillers
Runtime: 10.17
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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