Books written by James Carlos Blake

Country of the Bad Wolfes

John Samuel asked what happened, and John Roger said the attacker was a soldier married to a woman who'd once been a ... The attribution did not escape her and she gave him a sharp look that made him curse himself for a stooge 125 THE ...
The Ways of Wolfe: A Mexico Cartel Thriller

Racing across desolate landscapes from West Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, The Ways of Wolfe is the taut story of one man's love for a daughter he has never met and his fateful struggle with his own reckless spirit.
The Rules of Wolfe: A Mexico Cartel Thriller

At once a riveting thriller and an inside look at the blood-drenched Mexican drug trade, The Rules of Wolfe is another classic crime novel from a writer Entertainment Weekly calls ‘one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American ...
The Rules of Wolfe: A Border Noir

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.
The Ways of Wolfe

From CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award finalist James Carlos Blake, The Ways of Wolfe is a rousing novel about an imprisoned member of the outlaw Wolfe family who risks escape for the chance to see his long-lost daughter again
The Bones of Wolfe: A Border Noir

Praise for The Bones of Wolfe “Hold on to your hats. The Wolfe family saga continues in Blake’s newest Border Noir. . .
Country of the Bad Wolfes: A Novel

A recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize presents the story of the Wolfe family--a saga that spans three generations, centers on two sets of identical twins and the women they love and ranges from New England to the heart of Mexico ...
The Ways of Wolfe: A Border Noir

He's almost to the river and no longer on state park property when a small yellow glow slightly upriver comes into view. He knows it to be from Harry Morgan Wolfe's house way back in the dunes. Somebody's at home.
Country of the Bad Wolfes

The violent but manifest destiny of the Wolfe family from Yankee America through the Diaz Regime of Mexico.
The Rules of Wolfe

From the award-winning master of "Border Noir" comes a relentless thriller about a young man from a family of outlaws who falls for the wrong woman and ends up on the run from a ruthless drug cartel and a deadly bounty hunter.
The Pistoleer: A Novel of John Wesley Hardin

With each chapter told from a different character’s perspective, The Pistoleer is “a genuine tour-de-force” of Western historical fiction from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author of In the Rogue Blood (Rocky Mountain ...
The Pistoleer: A Novel

"A novel ... from western master James Carlos Blake, called one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life by Entertainment Weekly, [this book] narrates the life of John Wesley Hardin, exposing the many different sides ...
In the Rogue Blood

And a family bond tempered in hot blood is tested in the cruel, all-consuming fires of war and conscience.With soaring and masterful prose, James Carlos Blake brings to life an enthralling historical time and place--and a cast of memorable ...
Wildwood Boys: A Novel

Here is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is pulled into a savage conflict of state against state in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Borderlands

Eight short fictions that explore issues of love, violence, and vengeance in the stories of a colorful cast of characters who make their home amid the harsh world of the borderlands
Wildwood Boys: A Novel

Here is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is pulled into a savage conflict of state against state in the years leading up to the Civil War.
A World of Thieves: A Novel

In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur boxer -- and he venerates his fraternal twin uncles, Buck and Russell, armed robbers who love their profession.
Wildwood Boys: A Novel

In prose as richly colored as an artist's palette, he again proves himself one of our most accomplished authors in this epic story set amid the Civil War's guerrilla conflict along the Kansas-Missouri borderland.
The rules of Wolfe: a border noir. Wolfe family. 2

The rules of Wolfe: a border noir. Wolfe family. 2
The Ways of Wolfe

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.