Joshua Mohr cranks the distortion even higher in The Wolf Wants Answers, the wild, whip-smart second volume of his Viking Punk Saga. Picking up just weeks after the chaos of Saint/Nero, Mohr wastes no time throwing readers—and his one-eyed antihero Saint—right back into the pit of anarchy, addiction, and existential reckoning.

This time, the stage is bigger, the stakes are higher, and the riffs are weirder.

Saint, fresh off his battle with the warehouse-scene villain Wes Than Zero, is settling into life as the latest member of All the Fuss, the grimy, heart-on-sleeve punk band fronted by Trick Wilma. Just when it seems he might finally outrun his haunted past, the ghosts come knocking—this time in the form of a violent cartel with a grudge and a plan that leads the band far from Oakland’s gentrified alleys to the decks of a riverboat in China. Along the way, a new (or old?) face emerges: Mad Cassidy, a flame from Saint’s past who could burn everything down if he’s not careful.

Mohr’s prose remains as jagged and electric as ever, spitting out noir-poetic one-liners and surreal set pieces that feel like Hunter S. Thompson doing a set with Black Flag. He mixes real-world commentary—on gentrification, addiction, capitalism—with the punk-rock absurdity of brain-bending genre mashups. The result is a novel that feels like a mosh pit: chaotic, exhilarating, and often unexpectedly tender.

Saint continues to be a mesmerizing protagonist: part street philosopher, part wounded wolf, always on the edge of collapse or transcendence. Trick Wilma remains his North Star, a figure of creative chaos and emotional depth. But it’s the arrival of Mad Cassidy that turns this installment into more than just a sequel. She brings romantic tension and the emotional heft of unresolved history, complicating Saint’s already shaky sense of self and direction.

The Wolf Wants Answers is bigger and bolder than its predecessor, without losing the raw emotional core that made the first book so compelling. It’s punk rock lit with a soul, a beat-up love letter to the misfits and dreamers fighting to stay human in a world that wants to grind them down.

This book showed up just in time for its release this week!

Book 2 of Joshua Mohr's Viking Punk trilogy is just as badass and ball smashing as the first and now I'm dying for the final installation.

In The Wolf Wants Answers, we're following Saint as he heads out on the road with Trick and their band when they are intercepted by a group of masked thugs demanding a debt be paid. And zip tied between them is a woman who shares a dark and complicated past with Saint.

We lean in with our chin in our hands, elbows on table, as Saint takes us back to his release from prison, his search for his guitar and the woman who raised him, and how he first stumbles across Cassidy, an eyebrowless relator who is tired of being mistreated by Tonys.

Strap in for a punk rock adventure that takes us through a haunted waterpark, abandoned real estate properties, and some pretty gnarly torture scenes involving a chicken shawarma.

It's all hitter-quitters and nine balls in socks and failing to be a touch careful. And you should get on this because you can never have enough Mohr in your life.

this book is truly like nothing ive read before and thats no bad think. i feel even more kick ass just by being a reader of it. its the kind of book that is just cool. too cool for me!
we follow on pretty much from where the first one left us so id say you need to go and read it. and youll want to do so.
Joshua takes us into a whole new world and working of that world are one you will be addicted to reading more of. but also Joshua has created such a sense of place that you can really picture it. you can imagine all the parts that are written. and im so glad to be back with Saint. but if you think his defeating of those in book one meant he could move on and live his bunk band self that you are mistaken. as there are other waiting to make him settle some scores. and this is going to take him further than ever before.
things never seem to be going Saints way. and what we learn from his past is that there is more to him than we thought. and we then want to both read more and see him succeed. but that wont be easy. there are demons that wont be kept at bay. and there are plenty to get in his way yet.
another cover that stole my heart and sucked me right back in.
a book like no other. thankyou for giving me that Joshua, what an exciting ride to be on.

"Our heads were slaughterhouses and nurseries, insane asylums and courtrooms, concert halls and art museums, carnivals and orgasms, bubble baths and war. And if our heads were so many things at once, what did that say about the peculiar music in our skulls?

Joshua Mohr's second book in the Viking Punk Saga follows on with the story of Saint. After he and Trick Wilma defeated Wes than Zero, the nihilistic punk criminal terrorizing the Oakland warehouse scene. Now officially a member of Trick’s band All the Fuss, Saint is ready to live his best life, and move on from the demons of his past. The only problem is the demons have other plans. On the way to the next show, the band is intercepted by a nasty cartel that insists Saint has a debt to settle, one that will eventually lead to a riverboat in China.

I was excited to read this next book in this series. Much like the first book the reader gets to experience moments from Saint's past that have shaped him into the person he is today.

He revisits his Norwegian past while trying to fight his demons that come as debt collectors and other disturbing figures. Along the way he speaks of those he cares about and why. His constant battle with life and his desperation to keep playing punk music because it's the only thing tethering him to a successful future.

There are many twists and messed up events that occur in this book which not only give the reader a deeper insight into Saint's character but also his will to keep on going despite the odds stacked against him.