The Rules of Wolfe: 1 (Border Noir) - Hardcover

Blake, James Carlos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802121292 ISBN 13: 9780802121295

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013

Synopsis

<div><b>A <i>Men's Journal</i>, <i>Deadly Pleasures</i>, and Latinidad Best Book of the Year</b><br><br>Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners 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.<br><br>Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja&#8217;s organization. When they're discovered, the violent upshot forces Eddie and Miranda to run for their lives, fleeing into the deadly Sonora Desert in hope of crossing the border to safety. But La Navaja&#8217;s reach is far and his lust for revenge insatiable. If La Navaja&#8217;s men don&#8217;t kill Eddie and Miranda, the brutal desert just may. Their only hope: help from the family that Eddie abandoned.<br><br>At once a riveting thriller and an inside look at the blood-drenched Mexican drug trade, <i>The Rules of Wolfe</i> is another classic crime novel from a writer <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> calls, "one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life."<br></div>

About this title

About the Author

<div>James Carlos Blake is the author of eleven novels. Among his literary honors are the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Southwest Book Award, Quarterly West Novella Prize, and Chautauqua South Book Award. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and lives in Arizona.</div>

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802121292
• ISBN 13: 9780802121295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240