In search of his birth mother, an American finds himself in an isolated Aegean village where he is suddenly and violently enmeshed in a web of lies and deceptions he can neither understand nor control. Riots, kidnapping, and murder link the fates of Americans and Turks in a storm of menacing religious extremism. In Forty Wolves, Mark Jacobs triumphs again as a master storyteller of intrigue and international politics.
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Recalling Graham Greene in The Comedians, Jacobs weaves an engrossing story that takes place over three continents and illuminates the unexpected ways people betray and defend one another and, ultimately, how they learn to love.

In praise of Mark Jacobs.

['Stone Cowboy' is] tough, funny and courageous, it's a joy to read. Compelling from the very first page."
​— The Washington Post

It's rare that a collection of short stories is so consistent, but Jacobs' exquisite craftsmanship [in 'A Cast of Spaniards'] never wavers."
​— ​​Publishers Weekly

Jacobs is clearly interested in describing politically motivated events primarily by filtering them through the consciousness of obsessed, often deluded, characters. The best stories in . . . ['The Liberation of Little Heaven'] display not only this psychological probing but also the flair of a born storyteller."
— Time Out New York

A Cast of Spaniards “is a remarkable debut of an accom­plished, passionate, politically astute new writer.” 
— The Atlantic Monthly