Mark Jacobs, author
  • Mark Jacobs
  • Books
    • Stone Cowboy
    • A Handful of Kings
    • A Cast of Spaniards
    • The Liberation of Little Heaven
    • Forty Wolves
  • Short Stories
  • Essays & Interviews
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Stone Cowboy
Released from prison in La Paz, a burned out American doper looks in all the wrong places for a way out of Bolivia. Roger’s corkscrew journey leads him through a thicket of drug trafficking, violence and – to his surprise – something like love. But the redemption he yearns for and ultimately achieves is nothing he could have imagined.

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A Handful of Kings
Recalling Graham Greene in The Comedians, this novel blends diplomacy and terror, espionage and attraction, in a suspenseful thriller ranging over three continents. The book illuminates the unexpected ways people betray and defend one another, and, ultimately, how they learn to love.

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A Cast of Spaniards
“The Book of Pain and Suffering” anchors this debut collection of stories that establishes Latin America as a primary focus for Jacobs’ imagination. The stories, set in countries around the continent where the author lived and traveled, are characterized by what Publishers Weekly called “exquisite craftsmanship.”



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Little Heaven
This second collection of stories includes “How Birds Communicate,” which won the Iowa Review Fiction Prize. The Boston Book Review noted that in these stories “Jacobs includes us in his visions, often bringing them fearfully close.” Paraguay, Central America, and Bolivia provide the settings for stories that challenge our assumptions of what we think we know.


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Forty Wolves
In search of his birth mother, American Cris Alessi travels to Aegean Turkey, where he winds up becoming embroiled in a web of lies and deceptions he can neither understand nor control. In the remote village where he finds Nur Beyazbulut, politics and religious extremism combine to produce a tense narrative of discovery and renewal.



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