The Rules of Wolfe by James Carlos Blake
The Rules of Wolfe by James Carlos Blake
Publisher: Mysterious Press
First sentence…
Eddie Gato pleaded with us to take him on that run last winter but we said no.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Eddie Gato Wolfe is an ambitious young man who wishes to make a fast rise in the vast Wolfe family criminal organization. When things aren’t moving as fast as he’d like, Eddie heads down to Mexico and takes a security job for the La Navaja drug cartel.
Assigned to a remote but luxurious desert villa, days and nights are boring. The only time things liven up is when the cartel bosses fly in with young women to party. Although contact or conversations with the help is not allowed one of the women seems interested in Eddie… and he in her. Eddie learns her name is Miranda.
On Miranda’s next visit he sneaks a visit to her and they hit it off. All is going well until the man who brought her finds them together. He and Eddie fight and the man ends up dead. The dead man is the brother of La Navaja’s leader. Eddie knows that unless he and Miranda can escape across the desert and back into the United States, a brutal merciless death awaits them both.
Eddie and Miranda head into the desert with the knowledge that the entire La Navaja cartel will be looking for them. They’re only hope is a lot of luck and maybe some help from the Wolfe’s… the family that he deserted.
James Carlos Blake has another winner!
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