James Carlos Blake is among America's most esteemed living authors of historical crime fiction. His work delves into the lives of often harsh characters from the American West, exploring their moral complexities and struggles. Blake is known for his distinctive narrative style and innovative chapter structures, which immerse readers in the gritty realities of his settings. His writing offers profound insights into human nature and crafts unforgettable literary figures.
Twenty years ago Axel Prince Wolfe teamed up with his best friend and a Mexican stranger in a robbery that went wrong. He was captured and imprisoned. Two decades later Axel has long since exhausted his desire for revenge. All he wants now is to see the woman his daughter has become. When the chance comes to escape Axel takes it. A startling discovery re-ignites an old passion and sends Axel headlong toward reckonings many years in the making
"James Carlos Blake, widely acclaimed as one of our best authors of historical and contemporary crime fiction, brings us his most striking and fast-paced border noir yet with The House of Wolfe. On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is an ambitious young gangster named El Galan, who hopes that his audacious exploit will gain his small gang a partnership with a major crime cartel. He sets the wedding party's ransom at five million USD, to be paid in cash within twenty-four hours. But El Galan doesn't know that bridesmaid Jessica Juliet Wolfe comes from a family of Texas gunrunners whose blood relatives belong to a powerful but mysterious Mexican cartel. As the captives realize the full horror of their situation, the Wolfes on both sides of the border come together and begin a desperate hunt to find Jessie before the deadline expires. Gritty and exhilarating, The House of Wolfe takes readers on a furious ride from Mexico City's opulent neighborhoods to its frenetic downtown streets and feral shantytowns to a spectacularly hellish climax. " AbeBooks.com
The violent but manifest destiny of the Wolfe family from Yankee America through the Diaz Regime of Mexico.