The Devil Takes You Home

"This story is about one man’s descent into hell, with violence so relentless I repeatedly grabbed my bookmark and took a breather. But I kept coming back, unable to resist Gabino Iglesias’ crisp, propulsive writing. His narrator, Mario, quits an honest job and becomes a hit man. Mario’s wife has left him following his young daughter’s death. He’s empty inside (so he thinks), plus there’s crushing medical debt to pay off. Mario thinks he’ll get a fresh start if he teams up with two other men to successfully hijack a drug cartel’s cash shipment before it gets to Mexico. Instead, he’s on a dark odyssey made even darker by the growing realization that he’s not as morally bankrupt as he thinks he is, but will it be too late?"