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Jan 10, 2012 country of the bad wolfes james carlos blake when i picked this book up and looked at the cover i was ready to deride the writer for his poor knowledge of plurals then i understood that wolfes was a name not the animals. Explore books by james carlos blake with our selection at. Last year, in country of the bad wolfes, which is set mostly in the 19th century, blake introduced the wolfe family, which has branches in texas and mexico as does blakes own family. Read or download country of the bad wolfes book by james carlos blake. Some of his earlier books are the in the rogue blood and the country of the bad wolfes that were published in 1997 and 2012 respectively. Tampico is a key setting in country of the bad wolfes, a 2012 historical novel by james carlos blake. Buy country of the bad wolfes wolfe family 1 uk ed. From the raw clay of historical fact, james carlos blake has sculpted a powerful novel of both a man and an america at war with themselves.
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