Night of the Jaguar (Sound Library)
Product Description “Like settling down with a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel—if it was rewritten by James M. Cain.” — Denver Post Michael Gruber’s Night of the Jaguar—like his earlier novels featuring Miami detective Jimmy Paz (Tropic of Night, Valley of Bones )—transforms the conventional thriller into something extraordinary, taking the crime novel to a place it has never gone before. Combining a grisly murder investigation with chilling supernatural elements and provocative thought, Night of the Jaguar is a bravura display of the originality and artistry that has won Gruber the title, “the Stephen King of crime fiction” while inspiring the Washington Post Book World to name the Jimmy Paz trilogy, “among the essential novels of recent years.” From AudioFile This title is an ideal showcase for Jonathan Davis, who reads with an elegance amplified by his mastery of foreign words. It is an unusual novel, a mystery in which people are being murdered by what appears to be a jaguar as revenge for their illegal development of an African jungle. It is also a book of supernatural intrigue that encompasses American, Colombian, and Cuban culture. No matter what language he's reading, Davis's performance is so polished that every character's personality is distinctive, and the reader is free to concentrate on the plot, which is, to say the least, convoluted. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
