I really like Michael Gruber and find his books gripping, fast paced, intricate and superb reading.! Anyone who has not read his work, I highly recommend you pick up one of these incredible books. You will Not be disappointed!
I have listed a few of his works that I Highly Recommend. You can get more in-depth details of each of his books on Amazon. I highly recommend that you go to Wikipedia for more fascinating information on Michael Gruber.
I read The Book of Air & Shadows a way back and found myself reading until practically blind! I couldn't stand to put it down. His characters are so rich, so kaleidoscopic! His navigation between centuries is smooth and always right on course. This book is an Intelligent Read! His style of writing is Rare and will wet your pallet for more!
Being a great follower of William Shakespeare, I found Mr. Gruber's concepts of the Great Writer intriguing! Mr. Gruber is such a unique author with such unique story lines, that I just want to read more! He is in a category of his own!
The Book of Air & Shadows:
Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, The Book of Air and shadow is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare's life at the turn of the seventeenth century and combines an ingenious and intricately layered plot with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery . . . or self-destruction.
A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death . . .
A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries . . .
An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth . . .
Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say, Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare. Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?
These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose seemingly innocent job as an intellectual property lawyer has put him at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer—or killers—unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began when a fire in an antiquarian bookstore revealed the hiding place of letters containing a shocking secret, concealed for four hundred years. In a frantic race from New York to England and Switzerland, Jake finds himself matching wits with a shadowy figure who seems to anticipate his every move. What at first seems like a thrilling puzzle waiting to be deciphered soon turns into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, where no one—not family, not friends, not lovers—is to be trusted.
Praise for The Book of Air & Shadows
"A fast-moving tale about the world of rare books. A wonderful story with absolutely superb casting."
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Washington Post April 1, 2007
Love's Labors Lost, and Found
"If you love books, make room on the shelf for a new guilty pleasure. Smart, packed with excitement...Gruber mixes in fascinating details about rare manuscripts, intellectual property, and ancient and modern cryptography."
Tropic of Night: The detective Jimmy Paz investigates a series of mysteries involving African sorcery in Miami. Themes explored include the nature of race, "magic," and the perceived illusions of reality.
Jane Doe lives in the shadows under an assumed name. A once-promising anthropologist and an expert on shamanism, everyone thinks she's dead. Or so she hopes.
Jimmy Paz is a Cuban-American police detective. Straddling two cultures, he understands things others cannot.
When the killings start -- a series of ritualistic murders -- all of Miami is terrified. Especially Jane. She knows the dark truth that Jimmy must desperately search to uncover. As their lives slowly interconnect, Jane and Paz are soon caught in a cataclysmic battle between good and an evil as unimaginable as it is terrifying . . .
Praise for Tropic of Night
"An astonishing piece of fiction, one that expands the boundaries of the thriller genre."
— Washington Post
Night of the Jaguar:
Science and mysticism, nature and greed collide in this mind-bending, compulsively readable thriller from the author of Tropic of Night and Valley of Bones, hailed by the Washington Post as "miracles of intelligent fiction . . . among the essential novels of recent years."
Deep in the jungles of Colombia, an American priest is shot dead in his makeshift church.
A few weeks later an Indian shaman called Moie arrives in south Florida, armed only with a bag of totems and the fearsome power of Jaguar, his god.
In Miami, retired detective Jimmy Paz, his wife, and his seven-year-old daughter are plagued by dreams of giant jungle cats that haunt both their sleeping and waking hours.
Only Michael Gruber is capable of combining heart-stopping action with a ferociously intelligent examination of what makes us human, in novels that have been praised as "bold . . . provocative, and frightening" (USA Today) and "dazzling, literate and downright scary" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Night of the Jaguar is an unforgettable blend of imagination, suspense, and thought-provoking inquiry into the nature of good and evil.
Praise for Night of the Jaguar
"His novels are elevated to the level of literature...enjoyed by the masses and admired by academics for years to come."
-- Sunday Denver Post
Other Must Reads by Michael Gruber:
The Witch's Boy
Valley of Bones
Forgery of Venus
About the Author:
Michael Gruber (born October 1, 1940 in Brooklyn) is an author living in Seattle, Washington. He attended Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Miami. He worked as a cook, a marine biologist, a speech writer, a policy advisor for the Jimmy Carter White House, and a bureaucrat for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) before becoming a novelist.
Except for my own input, information on these books and the Author are from - Amazon.com and Wikipedia.com and the actual write-ups within the books.
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