The Ways of Wolfe (Border Noir, 3) - Hardcover

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"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.

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James Carlos Blake is the author of thirteen novels, including The House of Wolfe, The Rules of Wolfe, which was shortlisted for the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award and named one of Booklist's Best 101 Crime Novels of the Past Decade, and Country of the Bad Wolfes. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and a recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for In the Rogue Blood. He was born in Mexico, raised in Texas, and now lives in Arizona.
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They're only a hundred yards from the prison and still in blurry sight of it_and less than a mile from where the road ahead curves west and out of sight behind a range of hills_when, through the pounding of the rain, they hear the rising wail of Zanco's lockdown sirens.
"They're on to us!" Axel says.
"Go! Hit it!" says Cacho.
As the van gains speed, there's a thunk-pock of a bullet piercing the roof and forming a starburst near the bottom of the windshield an instant before they hear the rifle shot.
"Floor it!" Cacho shouts.
"It's floored!" the driver says. "It's four-cylinder."
The tower guard is armed with a semiautomatic Ruger and its reports come in quick succession. It is hard to stop a fleeing vehicle when shooting at it from the rear and at an elevated angle, but the shooter is an able rifleman and his bullets punch through the rooftop, through the hatchback door and window, whang off the metal framework, and lodge in the windshield, in the center console, in the padding of the seats.
"Holy Mother!" Cacho says, his forearms clasped on top of his head.
"Cut the lights! Weave!" Axel yells, crouched behind Cacho, pressed against the panel door.
With its lights off, the van's a tougher target, and the driver shrugs low over the steering wheel, wipers flapping at full tempo, tires whumping through puddles, the driver weaving through the rain haze but only slightly for fear of skidding off the road. Then the gate tower's spotlight comes ablaze and its beam races up the road through the glittering rain and finds the hatchback door.

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  • PublisherMysterious Press
  • Publication date2017
  • ISBN 10 0802125778
  • ISBN 13 9780802125774
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages304
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