“All the Pretty Horses meets The Sopranos…. A spellbinding page-turner that captivates the reader from page one.”
—Oxford Town
“Blake clearly knows Texas and Mexican history and human nature…. Jimmy Youngblood is at once terrifying and beautiful, a killer with a poet’s soul.”
—MostlyFiction
“Like his predecessors, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Blake is a master of hard-boiled fiction. Like them, he depicts turbulent times and the vicious ambience of the criminal underworld.”
—Texas Observer
“Gritty, bloody, violent, and…a love story.”
—Arizona Daily Star