Thriller 'The Return': Love And Faith, Death and Vengeance in Mexico Adam Woog - The Seattle Times
go to original September 1, 2013

The Return: A Novel by Michael Gruber Check it out on Amazon.com

Seattle author Michael Gruber’s publishers are marketing his riveting new book as a thriller: The jacket of “The Return” shows a stylized skull, Mexican Day of the Dead style, its features an arrangement of guns, grenades and ammo.

No question, the book’s a thriller — a terrifically entertaining one. (Ordnance-heavy too, which justifies that jacket.)

But “The Return” is much more.

That’s because Gruber has never shied from Big Questions. Life, death, love, sex, faith, greed, violence, compassion — he’s taken pensive (and often quite funny) looks at such stuff for years, through novels such as “The Book of Air and Shadows” and “The Good Son.”

Adding to this combo plate of action and amused reflection is Gruber’s flair for vigorous prose and character development. He likes and cares about the people in his books — and shows us why we should, too.

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