<p>"Like settling down with a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel--if it was rewritten by James M. Cain."<p></p></p><p>--<em>Denver</em><em> Post</em><p></p></p> <p> </p></p><p>Michael Gruber's <em>Night of the Jaguar</em>--like his earlier novels featuring Miami detective Jimmy Paz (<em>Tropic of Night, Valley of Bones</em>)--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, <em>Night of the Jaguar </em>is a bravura display of the originality and artistry that has won Gruber the title, "the Stephen King of crime fiction" while inspiring the <em>Washington Post Book World</em> to name the Jimmy Paz trilogy, "among the essential novels of recent years."<p></p></p>