The Rules of Wolfe, James Carlos Blake
The Rules of Wolfe, James Carlos Blake
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The Rules of Wolfe

Author: James Carlos Blake

Narrator: David DeSantos

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/02/2013


Synopsis

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 to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja.

At a party, Eddie falls for a beautiful woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the girlfriend of El Segundo, La Navaja’s only living brother. When El Segundo finds Eddie and Miranda together, Eddie is given no choice but to kill him, forcing the two lovers to flee the cartel in hopes of crossing the border and reuniting with the Wolfe family.

But La Navaja’s reach is far and his lust for revenge insatiable. He sends a horde of operatives and the notorious bounty hunter El Martillo after the pair. If La Navaja’s men don’t kill Eddie and Miranda, the brutal Mexican desert just may. Their only hope: help from the family that Eddie abandoned.

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 Larry on May 29, 2016

James Carlos Blake’s The Rules of Wolfe is a crime noir novel of a family, the Wolfe family, with members of that family, both in Texas and Mexico, dealing in the weapons trade and supplying Mexican narcotrafficantes with guns. Given that dark story, it’s hard to find any heroes in the book. The nove......more

Goodreads review by John on July 16, 2015

Mysterious Book Report No. 151 by John Dwaine McKenna The roughly 2,400 mile long imaginary line which separates the US from Mexico encompasses an area known as the borderlands. It’s been disputed, fought over and illegally crossed in both directions for as long as it’s been drawn. It separates the ha......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 06, 2019

WARNING FOR MINOR SPOILERS One of the deadliest of the Mexican crime syndicates is the Sinaloa Cartel. Though their home-base is located on Mexico’s west coast, the power they wield is felt nationwide, a grip of fear which is enhanced by the influence they exert over government offices, both local an......more

Goodreads review by Laura Jean on September 12, 2018

I was expecting this book to start where the last one left off. Instead, it takes place at the present. Only half way through the book do you find out what happened to Catalina and even then the past is recalled in a couple of swift flash backs. Nothing is explained in detail. Although initially dis......more

Goodreads review by David on June 28, 2013

I've heard of "border radio" but "Border Noir" -- part of the title of James Carlos Blake's "The Rules of Wolfe: A Border Noir" -- is a designation new to me. The thriller deals with the Rio Grande Valley-based (in Texas we call it simply "The Valley") Wolfe family of gunrunners and smugglers with o......more