A master of the historical novel, James Carlos Blake has been hailed as "a poet of the damned who writes like an angel" (Donald Newlove, Kirkus Reviews).In Country of the Bad Wolfes, based in part on his own ancestors, Blake...

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 a...

Some called him a Texas hero. Some called him the Devil himself. But on one point they all agreed. While he was alive, John Wesley Hardin was the deadliest man in Texas.A novel of uncompromising depth and power from western master Jam...

A Men's Journal, Deadly Pleasures, and Latinidad Best Book of the YearEddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in fam...

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 Depr...

Set in the violent Kansas-Missouri border conflict of the Civil War, this novel, based on the brutal exploits of William 'Bloody Bill' Anderson, follows the Kansas 'redlegs' and the Missouri 'bushwackers' as they wage guerrilla warfar...

A tale inspired by the career of ragtime-era middleweight boxing champion Stanley Ketchel traces the athlete's meteoric rise against a backdrop of the violence and tragedy that marked his short life. By the author of Handsome Harry. R...