Blacktail

'A modern masterpiece. Blacktail will consume you' - Marcus Kliewer, bestselling author of We Used to Live Here
'Blacktail is as glorious as it is gruesome' - V. E. Schwab, Sunday Times bestselling author of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil A wolf embarks on a primal hunt for revenge. Blacktail is a dark work of animal fiction from Scott Hawkins, the critically acclaimed author of The Library at Mount Char.
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.
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, Blacktail is a feral odyssey of vengeance. The Forest God sleeps. But what will be the price of waking him?
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'Touching, horrifying, and entertaining . . . You should all get excited for this book'
- Mark Lawrence, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book That Wouldn't Burn
'Blacktail is one to savor; one to delight in the eccentricities of; one to sit with long after it ends'
- Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Dinner
'Beautiful, brutal fantasy, red in tooth and claw'
- Chuck Wendig, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Staircase in the Woods

Scott Hawkins is the author of The Library at Mount Char. He works as a Linux engineer focused on big data. He and his wife live in a woodsy area about an hour north of Atlanta. She keeps a nice garden. He's in his tenth year of failing to remodel the basement. Blacktail is his second novel.