The Devil Will Lead You Home

A novel awarded the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards.

A bloody story of a man desperately trying to save what is left of his family. For this, he will have to plunge into the very depths of violence—both real and supernatural.

Murder has never become a regular job for Mario. But the path of a hitman is the only way to heal his little daughter. The stack of medical bills is not decreasing, and family relationships are on the brink of collapse.

In this crisis time, Mario receives an offer: a last job that could either pull him out of poverty forever or send him to another world with a bullet in his head. A man named Huanka needs a partner to carry out a heist on Mexican drug cartel couriers transporting two million dollars.

Mario has nothing to lose, and he sets off on a journey. Every day, unspeakable horrors occur around him, and at the end of the road, the devil himself awaits him.

“Sometimes, waking up from a nightmare, you plunge into an even scarier nightmare. Then Gabino Iglesias reaches out from the shadows and leads you home.” — Stephen Graham Jones