Description
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 Sylvia Moreno-Garcia.
Kaelyn Jerde @julian.hickle_822
January 21, 2023
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You know those books that inspire you because you loved the story and the words used to tell it? You can simply see that the author found the best possible way to roll out the story to you. This is one of those novels. Mr. Iglesias uses beautiful phasing to tell a brutal story that treads genre lines in ways I'm not sure I've seen done before. More simply you like horror? You like crime fiction? You like international thrillers? Have a religious bent or love the harsh beauty of the border? Get it. Read it. Love it.