The House of Wolfe, James Carlos Blake
The House of Wolfe, James Carlos Blake
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The House of Wolfe

Author: James Carlos Blake

Narrator: David DeSantos

Unabridged: 9 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2015

Synopsis

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 Galan, who wants nothing more than to make his crew 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 twenty-four 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 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 Galan 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. 

About James Carlos Blake

James Carlos Blake is the author of fourteen novels, including The Ways of Wolfe, 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 is 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 now lives in Florida.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on April 24, 2018

Billed as "A Border noir," this is a testosterone-driven wild ride of a novel. As it opens, a group of audacious kidnappers grabs several members of a wealthy wedding party from a mansion in Mexico City. They divide the members of the party into two groups and take them to separate run-down houses i......more

Goodreads review by Nina on March 19, 2015

For me, this book defines the term "noir." There is no fluff here - it is down and dirty, dark and gritty. No one lives happily ever after. Threads are left hanging. The lines between the bad guys and the good guys blur. The suspense is tangible. The evil makes you cringe. Everything is real. As a ru......more

Goodreads review by Peter on June 18, 2018

The House of Wolfe (2015) by James Carlos Blake is a well-written wryly humorous story of a Texas family in Wolfe Landing, population 66—all Wolfes. The Wolfes are not your normal law-abiders. Their primary gig is gun-running, but they have other less exotic ways of making money. Wolfe Landing is on......more

Goodreads review by Wiz on September 02, 2015

Fans of grisly crime with a large dose of literary substance should flock to devour The House of Wolfe, the third in James Carlos Blake's "border-noir" trilogy centering on the exploits of the Wolfe family Clan. Unlike the first novel in the series, however - the sprawling epic Country of the Bad Wo......more

Goodreads review by K on May 12, 2018

The premise of The House of Wolfe is good enough, and I could easily envision the story being an action packed screenplay. So that's the good news. For me, however, the bad news was that I just couldn't connect with any of the characters in this story that spans two families, the Wolfes, residing on......more

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