Blacktail

A visceral dark fantasy novel, Blacktail is the long-awaited second novel from Scott Hawkins, the critically acclaimed author of The Library at Mount Char. Who does your dog pray to? 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? * * * ‘A modern masterpiece. Blacktail will consume you’ – Marcus Kliewer, bestselling author of We Used to Live Here and The Caretaker ‘Beautiful, brutal fantasy, red in tooth and claw’ – Chuck Wendig, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Staircase in the Woods ‘A magnificent, bloody saga that will change the way you look at the world’ – Nat Cassidy, bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary