That is why he is a joy to read.” - James L. His books should be read slowly, to luxuriate in his word choices, his sentence structure, his character revelation. “James Wade writes a terrific story, but that isn’t what makes him so good. “Cold as Hell snared me like a lasso and never let go.” - Scott Sigler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on Cold as Hell Taut, lyrical, and precise, the prose soars in this important new novel by James Wade.” - Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author “With echoes of Jim Harrison, Cormac McCarthy (and perhaps a smidge of Flannery O’Connor), River, Sing Out is a beautiful, brutal meditation on survival and love in the face of nearly unspeakable violence and depravity in an East Texas community ravaged by the meth trade. Anderson, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Dune: House Atreides “Gunslingers and demons, shootouts and monsters, cowboys and the supernatural-Cold as Hell is an imaginative, fun, and exciting novel.” - Kevin J. James Wade has all the tools, imagination, and more than enough passion to be at the vanguard of the best Grit-Lit writers of his generation, and I’ll be reading whatever he puts out.” - Matt Bondurant, bestselling author of Oleander City and Lawless “James Wade’s Beasts of the Earth delivers on the promise of his first two novels with this scorched-earth tale of a solitary innocent struggling against the unrelenting misery of a rural community in the American South who believe him to be a degenerate criminal. Reminiscent of early McCarthy, Larry Brown, or the great Tom Franklin, Wade uses two timelines to weave this intricate story that culminates in a most satisfying crescendo of honor, violence, and the only kind of justice some folks ever get. It’s his depictions of noble suffering that strike deepest-I’ll be thinking about young Michael Fischer, a boy struggling to hold together that last fragments of his humanity, for a long time. “A badass supernatural Western…It’s like the Witcher goes to Tombstone.” - Larry Correia, New York Times bestselling author, on Cold as Hell “Texas writer James Wade delivers a gripping and honest tale of a young boy confronting the evils of the world around him…If you enjoyed Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones or Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone, this is likely the book for you.” - San Francisco Book Review Bruno and Jaime Castle put a clever and fantastical spin on a well-worn and much-loved genre.” - Lou Diamond Phillips, actor, Longmire, Young Guns, Prodigal Son “They used to say the Western is dead…and now it really is-in a good way! In Cold as Hell, authors Rhett C. “Wade’s pitch-perfect, personality-driven dialogue sings in the voice of life, and his ability to meld existential thought, situational metaphor, and cinematic setting is a full-bodied experience…A soul-deep exploration of a wounded man in crisis, James Wade’s Beasts of the Earth…secures his position as an author of extraordinary merit.” - New York Journal of Books
Anderson, New York Times bestselling author, on Cold as Hell “An imaginative, fun, and exciting novel.” - Kevin J.
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