The Return

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The real Richard Marder would shock his acquaintances, if they ever met him. Even his wife didn't know the real man behind the calm and cultured mask he presents to the world. Only an old army buddy from Vietnam, Patrick Skelly, knows what Marder is capable of.

Then a shattering piece of news awakens Marder's buried desire for vengeance, and with nothing left to lose, he sets off to punish the people whose actions, years earlier, changed his life. Uninvited, Skelly shows up and together the two of them raise the stakes far beyond anything Marder could have envisioned.

As Marder and Skelly head toward an apocalypse of their own making, Marder learns that good motives and a sense of justice can't always protect the people a man loves.

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Slick revenge thriller that occasionally reads like a pitch for a Bruce Willis movie * Sun *
Like Gruber's other books, this novel puts the work of other thriller writers to shame and raises the quality bar for the genre to a precipitously high level. Thrilling and compulsively readable * Kirkus Reviews *

Author Bio

Michael Gruber was born and raised in New York City. He has a PhD in octopus behavior, and has served as a US army medic, a chef, a roadie, a Washington D.C. policy analyst and speechwriter. Since 1990, however, he has been a full-time writer and is the author of the international bestseller The Book of Air and Shadows. He now lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, three children and extremely large dog.