Why read Country of the Bad Wolfes?

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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 James Ellroy.

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N S Brooks

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Based in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the story follows the Wolfe family in war-torn Mexico. During these tumultuous events in American and Mexican history, the Wolfes grow rich and forge a violent history of their own, spawning a fearsome legacy that will lead them to a climactic reckoning at the Río Grande.

I found this to be a page-turning epic story about a nineteenth-century crime family spanning three generations. Apparently loosely based on Blake’s own ancestors, this made the storytelling even more realistic for me.

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