The House of Wolfe: A Border Noir, by James Carlos Blake
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The House of Wolfe: A Border Noir, by James Carlos Blake
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On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom’s 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 party’s 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 Jessie’s abduction, they fear that the kidnappers will kill the captives after receiving the ransom—unless they rescue Jessie first.Gritty and exhilarating, The House of Wolfe takes readers on a wild ride from Mexico City’s opulent neighborhoods to its frenetic downtown streets and feral shantytowns, as El Galán proves how dangerous it is to underestimate an ambitious criminal, and Jessie's blood kin desperately try to find her before it’s too late.
The House of Wolfe: A Border Noir, by James Carlos Blake- Amazon Sales Rank: #281834 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review “James Carlos Blake has long been one of my favorites, but his Wolfe family saga may be his best work to date. His latest, a complex kidnapping tale, brings to mind Faulkner’s storytelling in As I Lay Dying with the grittiness and realism of Cormac McCarthy’s border tales. Brilliant and uncompromising, Blake again proves why he’s one of the best writers working today.”—Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Forsaken and the forthcoming The Redeemers“A writer with as many fine and wonderful skills as those possessed by James Carlos Blake should be well-known and embraced. He has for a long time now been delivering novels set in the recent and less recent American past, thrilling stories of great power and insight, and with The House of Wolfe he brings all those same qualities to a novel of the harrowing present down along the border.”—Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone“James Carlos Blake is a master of the nail-biting thriller and the literary novel. The promise of his early work comes to full maturity in The House of Wolfe, a story as contemporary as a CNN sound bite and as old as human conflict itself, with a climax that howls with the triumph of the primitive.”—Loren D. Estleman, author of You Know Who Killed Me“Masterly. . . . Blake convincingly portrays modern-day Mexico City as a beautiful and surreal landscape. . . . As always, the writing is both poetic and visceral, and the mostly present-tense narrative keeps the reader engaged as the action rushes toward a surprising and fully satisfying conclusion.”—Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)“Blake excels at ensemble pieces and plays to his strengths here. Like a director with a small army of camera teams at his disposal, he wheels from one location to another, racking the focus with such intensity that, at any moment, the story you’re in feels like the only story there is until he cuts away again. A hard-edged, fast-moving thriller that will hold your attention hostage—good luck getting away.”—Booklist (starred review)“Without a wasted word, Blake captures the action with a poet’s voice as he describes the beauty and waste of modern Mexico City. A perfect pick for those who prefer their thrillers without borders.”—Arizona Daily Star“Blake has an unerring sense of control, and—though Elmore Leonard and Cormac McCarthy are lurking in the book’s DNA—a distinctive voice . . . The House of Wolfe is a pungent and exhilarating read.”—Financial Times“Blake delivers a thriller that hits all the right spots and hits them hard.”—Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine“This is masterful writing from beginning to end, so good that it will set your teeth on edge in the best of ways . . . A dark and violent novel about the three things that matter most: love, family and loyalty.”—Bookreporter“The laws of nations are thinnest at the edges, and Blake’s story throws a spotlight on those outliers who have chosen their own codes over any others. This fast-paced, well-plotted thriller reads like a mix of Cormac McCarthy and Elmore Leonard.”—Library Journal“Blake . . . does a masterful job of creating place by providing telling details of sights and smells that put the reader right in the cantinas, cafes, and slums of South Texas and Mexico City . . . Make[s] the reader want to know more about these tough, likeable, risk-taking, live-by-their-own-code Wolfes. ”—Reviewing the Evidence"A fast-paced thriller that you just won’t want to put down . . . Raw, unbridled suspense . . . A must-read for anyone who likes reading edgy, suspenseful fiction.”—Killer Nashville
About the Author
JAMES CARLOS BLAKE is the author of eleven novels. He has won the LA Times Book Prize, Southwest Book Award, Quarterly West Novella Prize, and the Chautauqua South Book Award. He lives in Arizona.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. it is a James C. Blake novel By Bordeaux Dogue Of course, and it therefore deserves to be read.It just might be, however that it is his least interesting work. Full of action, with the characters we know from generations ago and a bunch of mexican hoods, as has to bethis novel however lacks Blake's expected depthness and historical framework, something i jave como to expect, and relish, from his novels.It is a rather good action novel.Not a five star one, however, considering what we are used to, from the pen of James Carlos Blake.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This is masterful writing from beginning to end, so good that it will set your teeth on edge in the best of ways. By Bookreporter In the interest of full disclosure, I am currently loving any literary work that meets the classification of “border noir” or “desert noir.” THE HOUSE OF WOLFE does that, but I would have eaten it up regardless. Author James Carlos Blake seems set on establishing a literary Wolfe family dynasty with his newly released work, the second (after 2013’s THE RULES OF WOLFE) or third (if you count the historical novel COUNTRY OF THE BAD WOLFES) in a series of novels concerning a large family with blood ties across the U.S.-Mexican border.While hiding in plain sight, the Wolfe family and their Mexican counterparts south of the border have established a number of extremely successful enterprises, legal and otherwise, through what one might call business diversification, establishing wealth and, perhaps more importantly, power along the way. What occurs in the Wolfe series has been described as semi-autobiographical, and certainly what has occurred in the series to date has the ring of reality and truth to it. It’s not just the story that Blake tells; it’s the unflinching beauty with which he tells it that makes this series an addiction after only two (or three) books.Blake can make you flinch with the violence of his prose in one paragraph and arouse you with an erotic description in another. Anyone who has ever walked on the wild side, however briefly, will recognize each and all of the characters in THE HOUSE OF WOLFE, and be attracted by some and repelled by others. This is masterful writing from beginning to end, so good that it will set your teeth on edge in the best of ways.The plot is fairly straightforward, even as Wolfe’s masterful and plain-edged use of language, drama and suspense turns the book into a story that you hope will never end. Jessica “Jessie” Juliet Wolfe of the American side of the Wolfe family equation is in Mexico City, participating as a bridesmaid in the wedding of one of her best friends from college. The festivities, however, are irrevocably marred by a group of bandidos who kidnap the entire wedding party as they leave the reception. The abduction is carried out professionally enough under the leadership of El Galán, a lower tier gangster who wants to make the jump into the major leagues. El Galán’s plan is to hold the wedding party for a ransom of five million USD, figuring that the audaciousness of his act and the amount of money demanded will gain him a partnership with one of the major crime cartels. Jessica, the only member of the wedding party not related to the bride or groom by blood, is, as it turns out, a deadly outlier.When the Texas Wolfes are notified by their Mexican cousins of Jessica’s abduction, they are not content to sit back and let their relatives go it alone with the dangerous task of recovering her. Within hours, family members from both sides of the border are sitting in Mexico City, plotting how they are going to find Jessica and effect a rescue, not to mention a fitting revenge. The vignette that opens the book demonstrates unequivocally that the Wolfes are not a family to be trifled with. El Galán, for his part, is ruthless and motivated, and, as we see soon enough, Jessica incurs the wrath of his henchmen all too quickly. It’s not so much a question of whether or not the Wolfes will get to El Galán and his crew, as to whether or not they will get to them in time --- “in time,” as in before anyone is hurt, killed, or worse. That is the question that will keep your eyes and mind galloping across the pages.Blake has been critically acclaimed for several years; the reason for that will be clear once you read THE HOUSE OF WOLFE. He enjoys dropping little mysteries into the narrative and revealing the answer a bit later. For example, the abduction of the wedding party is a very well-kept secret. How is it, then, that the Wolfes know about it within a few hours of its occurrence? Blake provides a very surprising, and surprisingly erotic, answer early on, which is worth the price of admission all by itself. There is also a bit of a pause in the present-day narrative about halfway through, as some tidbits of backstory are told, some of which will no doubt be enlarged upon for future volumes. There are many more reasons to come to THE HOUSE OF WOLFE, a dark and violent novel about the three things that matter most: love, family and loyalty.Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Not up to Blake's High Standards By andrew review I have read every one of Blake's books. Red Grass River is one of my favorite books(of all time). This book, though good by most author's standards, is not up to Blake' s high standards. It is a routine "recover the kidnapped girl" type thriller and, though well written and mildly suspenseful , has nothing to really distinguish it. I wish Blake would write more historical thrillers set in the west or turn of the nineteenth century like Handsome Harry.
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