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Title details for Night of the Jaguar by Michael Gruber - Available

Night of the Jaguar

#3 in series

by Michael Gruber
Jonathan Davis
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Deep in the jungles of Colombia, an American priest is shot dead in his makeshift church. A few weeks later, an Indian shaman arrives in south Florida, armed only with a bag of totems and the fearsome power of Jaguar, his god. When affluent Cuban-American businessmen begin dying in gruesome fashion, seemingly eaten alive by a massive jungle cat, Jimmy Paz, Miami's resident expert on the deeply weird, is called out of his self-imposed retirement to find the killer. However, Paz has problems of his own: he and his seven-year-old daughter Amelia are both haunted by dreams of Jaguar, who has come to take her as a sacrifice. To save his daughter and stop the murders, Paz will have to reach into the deepest corners of his soul.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Jimmy Paz

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    May 1, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792744597
      • File size: 439729 KB
      • Duration: 15:16:06

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      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. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 27, 2006
      Gruber's highly entertaining supernatural thriller completes the trilogy that began with Tropic of Night
      and Valley of Bones
      . All feature Miami cop Jimmy Paz, though the real star of this outing is the supposedly dull-witted Jenny Simpson, a gofer for the Forest Planet Alliance. When someone starts murdering Cuban-American businessmen in grisly fashion, suspicion falls on Moie, an Indian from a remote area of Colombia the victims had plans to develop. But how could the tiny Indian leave footprint evidence indicating he weighs over 450 pounds? Summoned out of retirement, Jimmy takes on the case, though he and his seven-year-old daughter, Amelia, are soon troubled by dreams of a jaguar with evil designs on Amelia. Every time Moie glides onto the page, the book shines, but it's Jenny, helping to shelter Moie, who steals the show (e.g., she's baffled that her boss would have a wife, Portia, named after a car). Hotly spiced with hit men and guns, demon gods and piranhas, this one offers more social satire than its predecessors, mostly at the expense of do-gooder environmentalists. 3-city author tour.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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