About the Author

James Carlos Blake is one of America's most highly regarded living authors of historical crime fiction. He was born in Mexico to a family that moved regularly when he was a child, living in various towns along the border and coast before finally settling in Texas. After a stint in the army, Blake attended the University of South Florida and received a Master's degree from Bowling Green State University, both universities where he would later teach. In 1997 he left teaching to write full-time. Blake has written thirteen other novels and one collection of stories, most of which dealt with real-life characters from the American west. He lives and works in Arizona.

Reviews

James Carlos Blake writes with the muscularity of great pulp novels and the grace of a dancer - from the edge of an America that is forever frontier
*James Sallis*

Blake's literary badlands are uniquely his own
*GQ*

For readers who can stomach all-too-realistic Tex-Mex noir that explores human nature at its worst
*The Washington Post*

Blake's customary zest for life and death makes his latest modern historical thriller violent, sexy and exciting
*Kirkus Reviews*

Blake's masterful action-driven narrative and his revealing look at the ultraviolent Mexican drug trade rival the best of Don Winslow and Kem Nunn
*Publishers Weekly*