Huxley along with his wife and young daughter survive the collapse of civilization by fleeing a city in California for the wilderness to the East. Everything seemed to be fine for nearly a decade. Then the slavers came.
Wolves
by D.J. Molles
Blackstone
August 2016
The slavers pillaged his commune, taking his daughter into slavery in the East. With her dying breath, his violated and soon to be murdered wife gave him a clue: the slaver who did this to them had a scorpion tattoo. With nothing else to live for, Huxley heads East across the desert to find the slaver and exact justice.
This book has all the best parts of a vengeance Western or Civil War Western plus a healthy dose of the post apocalyptic with just the right dash of redemption. It was a book I couldn't put down because how Huxley's sorry ending could go a variety of ways - all the way to the end of the book, which I found to be very satisfying.
This was my first novel by Molles but it wont be my last. I was very impressed with this tense, violent and ultimately fulfilling story.
