The Rules of Wolfe

Description

Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gunrunners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja. Eddie falls for a woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja's organization. Their discovery forces Eddie and Miranda to run for their lives, fleeing into the deadly Sonora Desert.

James Carlos Blake is one of America's most highly regarded living authors of historical crime fiction. He was born in Mexico to a family that moved regularly when he was a child, living in various towns along the border and coast before finally settling in Texas. After a stint in the army, Blake attended the University of South Florida and received a Master's degree from Bowling Green State University, both universities where he would later teach. In 1997 he left teaching to write full-time. Blake has written thirteen other novels and one collection of stories, most of which dealt with real-life characters from the American west. He lives and works in Arizona.

James Carlos Blake writes with the muscularity of great pulp novels and the grace of a dancer - from the edge of an America that is forever frontier -- James Sallis Blake's literary badlands are uniquely his own -- Stayton Bonner * GQ * For readers who can stomach all-too-realistic Tex-Mex noir that explores human nature at its worst -- Patrick Anderson * The Washington Post * Blake's customary zest for life and death makes his latest modern historical thriller violent, sexy and exciting * Kirkus Reviews * Blake's masterful action-driven narrative and his revealing look at the ultraviolent Mexican drug trade rival the best of Don Winslow and Kem Nunn * Publishers Weekly *