Product Description

Along the border of southern Arizona and northern Mexico, a close-knit group of Anglo and Hispanic families struggle to keep their ranches alive amidst the depredations of drug lords and smugglers. Here, age-old values collide with gangs of hardened border criminals in a raw tale of action, adventure, and justice.

J. P. S. Brown opens a window onto a part of the world that few have seen and even fewer have understood, offering a view of the world of cattle ranching in an area where homes are still without electricity or plumbing, where ranches are reachable only by plane or horseback, and where neighbors are family or deadly foes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #266397 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 295 pages

About the Author
J. P. S. Brown is a cattleman and fiction writer who lives and works on a ranch near Patagonia, Arizona. In 1999 he was the recipient of the Will James Society's Big Enough Award for his contribution to the cowboy tradition. In 2002 he received the Lawrence Clark Powell Award for his contribution to Southwestern letters.

Customer Reviews

Better than Cormac McCarthy
This is a real Western, the kind movies are made of with stars like Paul Newman or Lee Marvin who, by the way, acted in the movie Pocket Money made from Brown's earlier book Jim Kane. Wolves at Our Door is a strong, fast paced, tough story of cowboys today living in a cowman's world surrounded by the real dangers of drug wars on both sides of the US Mexico border. Characters from Jim Kane and The Forests of the Night continue in this new book in a tough and thrilling story. In my mind I can see Clint Eastwood playing the lead in a movie version of this book. It is a better story than Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library) or All the Pretty Horses.

Great Read
JPS Brown has always been my favorite author. It was really exciting to find a recent book by him that takes place in the same country (Sonora, MX) using the same characters as the "Jim Kane" novel of 35 years ago. I would really like to contact Mr. Brown and let him know what his writing does to convey the ageless essence of cow country to the heart of a cow man.