‘A modern masterpiece. Blacktail will consume you’ – Marcus Kliewer ‘Blacktail is as glorious as it is gruesome’ – V. E. Schwab ‘Utterly unique . . . an outstanding, majestic animal story’ – Daily Mail 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? * * * ‘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