The Ways of Wolfe
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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 enterprises. Then he took part in a robbery that went wrong. Abandoned by his partners, he was the only one caught. His family was disgraced, his wife absconded, and his infant daughter Jessie was left an orphan.
Two decades later, Axel has given up his desire for revenge against his partners. All he wants is to see the woman his daughter has become, despite her lifelong refusal to acknowledge him. With eleven years left to serve, Axel escapes with a young Mexican inmate, evading a massive manhunt by heading down the Rio Grande and into a desert inferno. But as his chance to see Jessie comes within reach, a startling discovery sends Axel headlong toward a reckoning many years in the making.
Winner of the Maltese Falcon Award and the Grand Prix du Roman Noir Étranger, James Carlos Blake has been hailed as "one of the most original writers in America today." The Ways of Wolfe continues his acclaimed saga of the Wolfe family (Chicago Sun-Times).
"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
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James Carlos Blake was 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 was 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 lived in Arizona.