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This book introduces us to jimmy, a cubanamerican police detective in miami who every much lives on both sides of those two worlds. Praise for tropic of night an astonishing piece of fiction, one that expands the boundaries of the thriller genre. Michael gruber born october 1, 1940 is an american author gruber was born in brooklyn and currently lives in seattle, washington. Tropic of night is a dramatic, stylish, smart, and very strongly plotted novel, mixing anthropology, ethnography, sorcery, mayhem, and murder in an intriguing and wholly captivating story that ranges from mali to siberia, nigeria to miami, and never lets up.
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