A Breed Apart: A Novel of Wild Bill Hickok

by Max McCoy

Book Overview

Aces and eights - everyone knows the tale of the Dead Man's Hand. Wild Bill Hickok was a giant in a vast land - a celebrity in the days of dime novels and the telegraph. Few men in the Old West could... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451219872
• ISBN13: 9780451219879
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Read this novel with your back to the wall

This is a weird, rich, and compelling take on the Wild Bill myth. It is one in which "time seem[s] unreal, as if each moment hung in the air far too long before fading reluctantly into the next." The plot gallops from tragedy to betrayal, morphing from one Hickokian nightmare to the next. The novel bristles with foreplay and gun play, all circling around a Civil War battle that rivals Stephen Crane for detail and dialogue, and beats him completely in eeriness. The language is so crisp and the description so vivid that when the narrator declares "the Ozarks is a savage little nation all by itself" the reader may find himself looking over his shoulder. Read this novel straight through the first time to get the jolt of excitement, then go back to the beginning and read it again to savor the art.