James Carlos Blake

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1995
  • Latest Book:
    July 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Wolfe Family

1 - Country of the Bad Wolfes (Feb-2012)
2 - The Rules of Wolfe (Jul-2013)
3 - The House of Wolfe (Mar-2015)
4 - The Ways of Wolfe (Mar-2017)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Pistoleer

    The award-winning author’s “fearless” debut novel chronicles the life of a legendary Texas outlaw with “a ruthless sensibility . . . spare and tough” (Publishers Weekly).   Some called him a Texas hero. Some called him t...

  • In the Rogue Blood

    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, In the Rogue Blood is “powerful . . . impressive . . . [an] epic of the 1840s frontier” (Dallas Morning News).With soaring and masterful prose, James Carlos Blake brings to life an e...

  • The Friends of Pancho Villa

    The award-winning author blends fact and fiction to bring the Mexican Revolution to life in a “harrowing and brutal tale” of its famous leader (Rocky Mountain News).   Waged from 1910 to 1920, the Mexican Revolution profoundly transformed Me...

  • Red Grass River

    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 histo...

  • Borderlands

    A “gritty, raw, bare-knuckled” collection of stories set along the US-Mexico border from the LA Times Book Prize"winning author of In the Rogue Blood (Publishers Weekly).   In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, James Carlos Bl...

  • Wildwood Boys

    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 sta...

  • A World of Thieves

    In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur boxer -- and he venerates his fraternal twin uncles, Buck and Russell, armed robbers who love their profession. Sonny secretly believes that he, too, is a...

  • Under the Skin

    James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the Free State of Galveston," who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression. Raised o...

  • Handsome Harry

    They were die-hard and deadly partners who made national headlines with their daring bank holdups 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" Pier...



  • The Killings of Stanley Ketchel

    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, who...

  • Country of the Bad Wolfes

    Wolfe Family - 1

    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...

  • The Rules of Wolfe

    Wolfe Family - 2

    Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe clan of Texas gun-runners and bootleggers 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...

  • The House of Wolfe

    Wolfe Family - 3

    The award-winning author’s “hard-edged, fast-moving thriller” about love, crime, family, and loyalty set around the borderlands of Texas and Mexico (Booklist, starred review).   On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding ...

  • The Ways of Wolfe

    Wolfe Family - 4

    The Ways of Wolfe focuses on Axel Prince Wolfe, midway through serving a 23-year sentence for a jewel heist that went awry, as he breaks out of prison, tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, and seeks revenge against the former partners who ...

  • The Bones of Wolfe

    Two outlaw brothers search for hijackers, stolen goods, and an adult film star in this action-packed noir tale by the author of The Ways of Wolfe.In the newest Wolfe-family adventure, Rudy and Frank Wolfe are engaging in routine miscellaneous busines...

Award-Winning Books by James Carlos Blake

In the Rogue Blood
1997 L.A. Times Book Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Carlos Blake has published 15 books.

James Carlos Blake does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Bones of Wolfe, was published in July 2020.

The first book by James Carlos Blake, The Pistoleer, was published in August 1995.

Yes. James Carlos Blake has 1 series.
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