New York, NY: William Morrow (2003)

"Under The Skin" is a hot-blooded tale of love and crime set in 1936 Galveston, Texas. In his signature style (described as what would happen if Sam Peckinpah and Cormac McCarthy got together to write a novel), a mix of brutality and hauntingly beautiful prose, Blake brings us his eighth novel. Blake is a master at creating the heroic bad guy. His characters deal with the conflicts of personal identity with the struggles of men and women to know who they truly are. "Under The Skin" will be a great read for fans of James Cain novels. "Blake is writing books that move like a stampede of mustangs with prose that ripples like Hemmingway on steroids." - Rocky Mountain Press