ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Jaxx
An attorney by trade. A novelist by calling. A chronicler of the places where the law of men runs out and the law of survival begins.
THE STORYTELLER
A life spent listening to what people refuse to say.
For decades, Robert Jaxx has built a quiet, formidable reputation as one of America's most psychologically acute storytellers. His novels — Sunset House and the award-winning Swan — drew readers into the moral wilderness of the modern courtroom, and earned praise from Kirkus, the Beverly Hills Book Awards, and the International Book Awards.
​With Blueland, Jaxx turns his unflinching eye to a different wilderness — the post-Civil-War American frontier — and to the universal human question that has powered every book he has written: when civilization fails, what survives?
THEMES & OBSESSIONS
War. Family. The fragile pursuit of order
Jaxx writes characters who are forced to choose between loyalty and law, mercy and survival, the past and what little of the future they can carve out for themselves. His fiction is grounded in the procedural — the courts, the chain of command, the rules of a frontier camp — but his subject is always the same: the moment a person decides what they will and will not survive.
"Every story I write begins with a person standing at the edge of who they used to be."
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
A career honored by readers and critics alike.
Winner — 8th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards, Best Fiction (Swan)
Finalist — 2020 International Book Awards, Best General Fiction (Swan)
Praised by Kirkus Reviews, Reader Views, and Bookreviewers