This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thrillerfollows a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family—even if it means a descent into violence.

 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 forviolence. 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 pathto reward or ruinis never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through theendless landscape of Texas, across the border and back,theirhidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarishencounters 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 NextList Selection•An ABA Indie Bestseller