The House of Wolfe A Border Noir Author:James Carlos Blake "Brilliant and uncompromising, Blake again proves why he's one of the best writers working today."?Ace Atkins — James Carlos Blake, widely acclaimed as one of our best authors of historical and contemporary crime fiction, brings us his most striking and fast-paced border noir yet with The House of Wolfe. — On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a... more » ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is an ambitious young gangster named El Gal�n, who hopes that his audacious exploit will gain his small gang a partnership with a major crime cartel. He sets the wedding party's ransom at five million USD, to be paid in cash within twenty-four hours. But El Gal�n doesn't know that bridesmaid Jessica Juliet Wolfe comes from a family of Texas gunrunners whose blood relatives belong to a powerful but mysterious Mexican cartel. As the captives realize the full horror of their situation, the Wolfes on both sides of the border come together and begin a desperate hunt to find Jessie before the deadline expires. Gritty and exhilarating, The House of Wolfe takes readers on a furious ride from Mexico City's opulent neighborhoods to its frenetic downtown streets and feral shantytowns to a spectacularly hellish climax.« less
ISBN-13: 9780802124746 ISBN-10: 0802124747 Publication Date: 3/8/2016 Pages:256 Edition:First Trade Paper Ed Rating: