JAMES CARLOS BLAKE

Novedad Abril 2001La franja de tierra que a lo largo de más de 300 kilómetros se extiende entre Estados Unidos y México constituye el escenario de los relatos de este libro. En esa cinta, desértica e

“En el verano de 1845, Edward Little era un muchacho de dieciséis años y la sangre inquieta.” Así se inicia la tumultuosa historia de los hermanos Edward y John Little. Forzados a huir de la pobre cabaña de los pantanos de Florida donde viven, marcados a fuego por un crimen familiar que los seguirá como pesadilla durante toda su vida, y en busca, como tantos otros desarraigados, del paraíso tejano, Edward y John se ven forzados a alistarse en los bandos opuestos de Estados Unidos y México que se disputan el territorio tejano. En esta narración épica, que explora los inquebrantables vínculos de la sangre, Blake revive, con una prosa vertiginosa y magistral, un tiempo y un lugar históricos sorprendentes y fascinantes, poblados de inolvidables personajes, de instintos oscuros, de sanguinarias venganzas y de sueños cercenados. “Blake nos presenta otra historia americana, la no oficial, la secreta, donde el nihilismo y la venganza están tan presentes como la esperanza y los ideales. Se puede vislumbrar algo de esta oscuridad en películas como las de Sam Peckinpah, Grupo salvaje, o Clint Eastwood, Sin perdón (...), pero raramente se encuentra en la ficción, y escasamente narrada con tan brutal elocuencia como en Sangre maldita.

Qué mejor manera de contar la epopeya de la revolución mexicana que metiéndose en la piel de Rodolfo Fierro, el compañero más fiel y irreductible de Pancho Villa. A través de sus ojos vemos desfilar la caótica historia del México de principios del siglo veinte, la grandiosa y triste odisea de unos revolucionarios tan idealistas como crueles. Es una visión muy negra, entre la realidad y la ficción, de la que brotan momentos de auténtica grandeza, donde destacan la devoción y el valor de hombres sin medida, que abrazaban con la misma fogosidad tanto a la vida como a la muerte. Una reflexión sobre el sentido que tiene la acción revolucionaria.

A page-turning epic about the making of a borderland crime family, Country of the Bad Wolfes will appeal both to aficionados of family sagas and to fans of hard-knuckled crime novels by the likes of Donald Pollack, Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke and James Ellroy.Basing the novel partly on his own ancestors, Blake presents the story of the Wolfe family - spanning three generations, centring on two sets of identical twins and the women they love, and ranging from New England to the heart of Mexico before arriving at its powerful climax at the Rio Grande.Begat by an Irish-English pirate in New Hampshire in 1828, the Wolfe family follows its manifest destiny into war-torn Mexico. There, through the connection of a mysterious American named Edward Little, their fortunes intertwine with those of Porfirio Diaz, who will rule the country for more than thirty years before his overthrow by the Revolution of 1910. In the course of those tumultuous chapters in American and Mexican history, as Diaz grows in power, the Wolfes grow rich and forge a violent history of their own, spawning a fearsome legacy that will pursue them to a climactic reckoning at the Rio Grande.

A master of historical and crime fiction, 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 familys 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.

Longlisted for the 2015 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger AwardEddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gunrunners 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. Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navajas organization. When theyre 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 Navajas reach is far and his lust for revenge insatiable. If La Navajas men dont kill Eddie and Miranda, the brutal desert just may. Their only hope: help from the family that Eddie abandoned.At once a riveting thriller and an inside look at the blood-drenched Mexican drug trade, The Rules of Wolfe is another classic crime novel from a writer Entertainment Weekly calls one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life.

In the newest Wolfe-family adventure from James Carlos Blake, Rudy and Frank Wolfe are engaging in routine miscellaneous business - some legitimate and some less so - for their family when they stumble upon a stash of high-quality pornographic films in a raid. The plot thickens when their Aunt Catalina, the family matriarch aged 115, recognizes her long-lost sister in one of the young performers. Catalina tasks the boys with tracking the girl down, however improbable a connection may be.This proves to be no simple task. Soon, Rudy and Frank find themselves moving away from world of porn and towards the upper echelons of the Sinaloa drug cartel, where the mysterious woman has become a particular favorite of the head narco. For their aunt, the woman, and themselves, Frank and Rudy must find a way to get her out without alerting the cartel. A tropical storm complicates their quest, but their sprawling family may save them from this obstacle, too.Often outrageous and always entertaining, the Wolfes are not to be missed.

On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the grooms family mansion. The perpetrator is a small-time gangster named El Galán, who wants nothing more than to make his crew part of a major cartel and hopes that this crime will be his big break. He sets the wedding partys ransom at five million US dollars, to be paid in cash within 24 hours.The only captive not related to either the bride or the groom is the young Jessica Juliet Wolfe, a bridesmaid and close friend of the bride. Jessie hails from a family of notorious outlaws that has branches on both sides of the border, and when the Wolfes learn of Jessies abduction, they fear that the kidnappers will kill the captives after receiving the ransom-unless they rescue Jessie first.Gritty and exhilarating, James Carlos Blakes The House of Wolfe takes readers on a wild ride from Mexico Citys opulent neighborhoods to its frenetic downtown streets and feral shantytowns, as El Galan proves how dangerous it is to underestimate an ambitious criminal, and Jessies blood kin desperately try to find her before its too late.