Blacktail

<p>‘A modern masterpiece. <i>Blacktail </i>will consume you’ – <b>Marcus Kliewer</b>, bestselling author of <i>We Used to Live Here</i><br><br>‘<i>Blacktail </i>is as glorious as it is gruesome’ – <b>V. E. Schwab</b>, <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil</i><br><br><b>A wolf embarks on a primal hunt for revenge. <i>Blacktail </i>is the highly-anticipated novel from Scott Hawkins, the critically acclaimed author of <i>The Library at Mount Char</i>.</b></p><p><br>Blacktail is a half-breed wolf, born to hunt. When he finds love beyond a garden wall, he dares to imagine a peaceful life – until men butcher his mate and unborn pups in a surgical act of cruelty. His grief ignites a rampage of torn throats and shattered bone, a slaughter so absolute it draws the gaze of an ancient feline witch. She sends him south to wake the sleeping Forest God and end the age of reason.<br><br>Fuelled by a rage that frightens Hell itself, Blacktail wages war against men and the beasts who dare defend them. From a gore-soaked wilderness to a burning confrontation with Heaven, <i>Blacktail </i>is a feral odyssey of vengeance.<br><br><b>The Forest God sleeps. But what will be the price of waking him?</b><br><br>* * *<br><br>‘Touching, horrifying, and entertaining . . . You should all get excited for this book’<br>– <b>Mark Lawrence</b>, <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Book That Wouldn't Burn</i><br><br>‘<i>Blacktail </i>is one to savor; one to delight in the eccentricities of; one to sit with long after it ends’ <br>– <b>Olivie Blake</b>, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Girl Dinner</i><br><br>‘Beautiful, brutal fantasy, red in tooth and claw’<br>– <b>Chuck Wendig</b>, <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Staircase in the Woods</i><br></p>