The Ways of Wolfe

Description

Twenty years ago, college student Axel Prince Wolfe teamed up with his best friend, Billy, and a Mexican stranger in a high-end robbery that went wrong. Abandoned by his partners, he was captured and imprisoned, his family disgraced, infant daughter, Jessie, left an orphan. When the chance comes to escape in the company of Cacho, a young Mexican inmate with ties to a major cartel, Axel takes it, and a massive manhunt ensues. With his chance to see Jessie now within reach, a startling discovery re-ignites an old passion and sends Axel headlong toward reckonings many years in the making.

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.

Pull together the pulp perfection of John D Macdonald, the grassroots grit of James Lee Burke; mix it with one of Stephen Hunter's alpha male Swagger clan; add the cross-border corruption of Don Winslow - and then you come close to the tales of the Wolfe family -- Rowena * Murder, Mayhem and More * Tough, muscular prose complement Blake's powerful storytelling * Publishers Weekly * Blake's tales smack of the Wild West with a modern twist -- Chris Roberts * Crime Review * gritty, exciting and full of suspense * Rebel Voice *