The Return

ISBN: 1482924722

Author: Michael Gruber

Condition: New

Product Description [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] [Read by Jonathan Davis] Lauded as his number-one favorite book of the year, Stephen King advised President Obama, in the pages ofEntertainment Weekly, to pick up Michael Gruber's previous book,The Good Son. With an unforgettable hero,The Return is as exciting and provocative as Gruber's best work. The real Richard Marder would shock his acquaintances, if they ever met him. Even his wife, long dead, didn't know the real man behind the calm, cultured mask he presents to the world. Only an old army buddy from Vietnam, Patrick Skelly, knows what Marder is capable of. Then, a shattering piece of news awakens Marder's buried desire for vengeance; with nothing left to lose, he sets off to punish the people whose actions changed his life years earlier. Skelly shows up uninvited, and the two of them together raise the stakes far beyond anything Marder could have envisioned. As Marder and Skelly head toward an apocalypse of their own making, Marder learns that good motives and a sense of justice can't always protect the people a man loves. With a range of fearsomely real characters, from a brutally violent crime lord to a daringly courageous young woman, a roller-coaster of twists and turns, and a shattering exploration of what constitutes morality in the face of evil, Michael Gruber has once more proven that he is ''a gifted and natural storyteller'' (Chicago Tribune) and shows why he has been called ''the Stephen King of crime writing'' (Denver Post). Review ''Gruber has a gift for seamlessly combining the visceral with the cerebral, without any degradation of quality on either side of the coin. He will have readers ruminating on ideas of identity, history, mortality, family, fate, and the complex and destructive relationship between Mexico and its neighbor El Norte, all while simultaneously thrilling their pants off, which is a rare and wonderful thing. Like Gruber's other books, this novel puts the work of other thriller writers to shame and raises the quality bar for the genre to a precipitously high level.'' --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) About the Author MICHAEL GRUBER, a former marine biologist, restaurant cook, federal government official, and political speechwriter, traveled a fascinating path toward his latest occupation as the bestselling author of critically acclaimed thrillers such asThe Book of Air and Shadows andThe Good Son.