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?

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‘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