The Ways of Wolfe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780802125774)

James Carlos Blake has long been one of my favorites, but his Wolfe family saga may be his best work to date.--Ace Atkins, on The House of Wolfe

Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner James Carlos Blake delves back into the dark realms of the Wolfe family, a clan whose roots run deep on both sides of the United States-Mexico border, and whose prevailing interests straddle both sides of the law.

Twenty years ago, college student Axel Prince Wolfe--heir apparent to his Texas family's esteemed law firm and its shade trade criminal enterprises--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, his wife absconded, his infant daughter Jessie left an orphan. Two decades later, with eleven years still to serve, Axel has long since exhausted his desire for revenge against the partners who deserted him. All he wants now is to see the woman his daughter has become, despite her lifelong refusal to acknowledge him. 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, taking the pair down the Rio Grande and into a desert inferno. 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.

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.

Author: James Carlos Blake
ISBN-10: 0802125778
ISBN-13: 9780802125774
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 31
Publishers Weekly 07/10/2017