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Book SynopsisThe Civil War may be over, but in this thrilling historical novel, the battle for the West is only just beginning.
Trade Review"Superbly detailed. …A brutal, blood-soaked and unsentimental account of the Old West that bears comparison with Cormac McCarthy’s
Blood Meridian." -- Irish Times
"A fine amalgam of historical fiction, western, and thriller." -- Booklist
"A riveting and propulsive mystery." -- Publishers Weekly
"A strong entry in the modern western genre, encompassing both historical accuracy and social commentary, wrapped in a well-told story." -- Library Journal
"Absorbing…. It's the well-drawn characters and riveting scenes that make this novel memorable." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Kevin McCarthy is a fresh voice, and a keen one. This Irish thriller writer has ventured boldly into a new continent and a new history. His place is the American West in the 1860s, when the long, sad carnage was winding its grim way toward Wounded Knee. With this story of profound tragedy, his new readers will be many." -- Larry McMurtry, author of The Last Kind Words Saloon
"When it comes to saturation-level historical authenticity—the sense of being there, alive and at large in the vanished past—I think Kevin McCarthy is in the company of masters like Patrick O’Brian and Hilary Mantel.
Wolves of Eden is also a shiningly humane novel, all the more credible for being told by an Irish author, about the immigrant soldiers who found themselves on the front lines during the harrowing seizure of the American West." -- Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln
"Kevin McCarthy shows himself to be an inspired explorer of history’s lost and forgotten causes.
Wolves of Eden is a war story, mystery and elegy—thrilling, unflinching and finely observed." -- Ed O’Loughlin, author of the Giller Prize–shortlisted novel Minds of Winter
