The Time of the Wolf - Hardcover

Blankenship, William D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556115482 ISBN 13: 9781556115486

Publisher: Donald I Fine, 1998

Synopsis

Believed to have vanished - along with Jim Bowie - when the Alamo fell, the original Bowie knife is the stuff of American myth. Now the knife, with its dark history of violence and bloodshed, is rumored to have surfaced from the archives of a prominent Mexican family. But Connecticut antiques dealer Kay Williams, dispatched to Texas to purchase it for a wealthy client, is experienced enough to know that when large sums of money change hands, risk is an inevitable part of the transaction. Especially when no one at the celebrated Austin auction house knows if the Bowie blade is the real thing.
With millions at stake and emotions running high on the bidding room floor, a centuries-old legend explodes into modern times - with deadly results. Because one among the ruthless bidders is a cunning criminal. Another is a federal agent. And a third is a cold-blooded killer with the perfect disguise...a predator driven by dark, primal motives, and whose chilling agenda is unfolding in Kay's deepening shadow.

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Review:

Antiques dealer par excellence Kay Williams has had her well-manicured, shapely hands on world-class gimcracks before: a Faberge egg or two, Adolph Hitler's personal pistol, a diamond tiara from the estate of J. Paul Getty. But the object of desire in this second book about Williams by the veteran crime writer William D. Blankenship makes them all look like so much junk. Kay is one of six people at a private auction in Austin, Texas, bidding for a Bowie knife--the original blade worn by Jim Bowie at the Alamo. Money isn't the problem: Kay's oilman client will pay whatever it takes to get the most famous blade in history since Excalibur. But one of the bidders wants the knife so badly that he's ready to kill for it.

The suspects are a colourful and varied lot, including that most predictable of current crime icons--the Russian Mafia heavy posing as a top diplomat. His body is being guarded by a coldhearted killer called Bud Wolf, a very nasty piece of work who has designs of his own on the precious knife. Also on the scene is Kay's ex-husband, a skilled con man who can smell profit and who threatens to add some logs to an already hot fire.

Will Kay prevail--or even survive? In the hands of a consummate master of the entertainment arts like Blankenship, you don't have to ask. The storyline of The Time of the Wolf might be sheer fluff, but its only begatter treats it as seriously as if it were King Lear. --Dick Adler

About this edition

• Publisher: Donald I Fine
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1556115482
• ISBN 13: 9781556115486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 326