Fiction. In search of his birth mother, an American finds himself in an isolated Aegean village where he is suddenly and violently enmeshed in a web of lies and deceptions he can neither understand nor control. Riots, kidnapping, and murder link the fates of Americans and Turks in a storm of menacing religious extremism. In FORTY WOLVES, Mark Jacobs triumphs again as a master storyteller of intrigue and international politics.

Author City: FAIRFAX, VA USA

Mark Jacobs, a native of Niagara Falls, New York, is a former foreign service officer. Highly lauded for his craftsmanship, Jacobs has published widely in prominent journals and magazines. His first book, A CAST OF SPANIARDS (Talisman House, 1994), was followed by Stone Cowboy (1997), The Liberation of Little Heaven (1999), A Handful of Kings (2004), and FORTY WOLVES (Talisman House, 2010). He lives iwth his wife at Heron Hill in rural Virginia.