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James Carlos Blake is just a masterful chronicler of the lawless, outcast, the sleepless, and the lonelyheart. His earlier novel, In the Rogue Blood, was given the L A Times Book Prize for Fiction. Today he's created a stirring and strong historic tale of blood feuds, family loyalties, and betrayed relationships; of bank robberies and bootlegging; and of the fervent love as wild in mind whilst the Everglades. It's the tale of sworn foes: John Ashley, a legal and folk hero, the brightest star in a household headed to get to be the most infamous in south Florida; and Bobby Baker, a lawman created of lawmen, a chaotic, hard hearted guy pushed from the searing memory of previous affronts and the suffering hatreds the engendered.