James Carlos Blake: 18 books

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...

A Mexican-American convict escapes prison to find his daughter in this “gripping ride” by the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author of The House of Wolfe (Arizona Daily Star). Axel Prince Wolfe was the heir apparent to his Texas family’s law firm and its ‘shade trade’ criminal...

A gritty, raw, bare-knuckled debut collection of stories set in the borderlands of the world and mind.   In this extraordinary collection of short works, James Carlos Blake, “one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life” and author of In the Rogue Blood and the Wolfe family...

The offspring of a whore mother and a homicidal father, Edward and John Little are driven from their home in the Florida swamplands by a sching parent's treacheries, and by a shameful, horrific act that will haunt their dreams for the rest of their days. Joining the swelling ranks of the rootless—wandering...

From the raw clay of historical fact, James Carlos Blake has sculpted a powerful novel of both a man and an America at war with themselves. Here is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is pulled into a savage conflict of state against state in the years leading up to the...

Hailed as "one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" (Entertainment Weekly), James Carlos Blake turns to the blazing story of Stanley Ketchel, the legendary ragtime-era middleweight boxing champion and daring rakehell, whose brief and meteoric life burned with...

James Carlos Blake is a masterful chronicler of the restless, outcast, the lawless, and the lonelyheart. His previous novel, In the Rogue Blood, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Now he has written a powerful and rousing historical saga of family loyalties, blood feuds, and...

Harry Pierpont and John Dillinger were die-hard and deadly partners who made national headlines with their daring bank hold-ups and gun battles -- and they had a lot of laughs while they were at it. They were known as the Dillinger Gang but at its heart was "Handsome Harry" Pierpont -- tough, fearless,...

Tijdens de zomer van 1845 worden de broers Edward en John Little door een list van hun ouders verdreven van hun thuis in het moerasland van Florida. Die verraderlijke daad zal hen voor altijd tekenen. Jarenlang trekken ze als cowboys te paard door het zuiden van de vs, vele gevaren trotserend. In...

Im Herbst 1842 bricht das Unglück über die Brüder Edward und John Little herein. In Georgia ersticht der Vater der beiden Jungen einen Mann, der so unvorsichtig war, ihre Mutter zum Tanz aufzufordern. Die Familie flieht vor dem Gesetz in die Sümpfe Floridas, wo es zur Katastrophe kommt. Nach einer...

John Ashley und Bobby Baker sind Todfeinde. Der eine, Spross einer Familie von Schwarzbrennern, ist der berühmteste Schmuggler und Bankräuber im Florida der Prohibitionszeit. Der andere, Gesetzeshüter aus einer Familie von Gesetzeshütern, treuer Ehemann und liebevoller Vater, verkörpert für...

A rousing, heart-pounding historical novel based on the legendary leader of the Mexican Revolution. Violently waged from 1910 to 1920, the Mexican Revolution profoundly transformed Mexican government and culture. And Pancho Villa was its “incarnation and its eagle of a soul”—so says Rodolfo...

A riveting crime thriller and an epic revenge tale ripped straight from the pages of today’s headlines.   Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager...

A novel of uncompromising depth and power chronicling the astonishing life of a legendary Texas outlaw. Some called him a Texas hero. Some called him the Devil himself. But on one point they all agreed. While he was alive, John Wesley Hardin was the deadliest man in Texas. For his forty-two...