*****Five Star Amazon Review!
"A spectacular read...a totally involving magnetic history of an unusual and exceptional individual which keeps you on the edge of your seat...I couldn't put it down."
-I. Charles Pell
*****Five Star Amazon Review!
"...Against this historical backdrop, the author does an outstanding job of getting inside the character to help understand the events and people in his life that created the man everyone knows. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a well crafted character driven story, historical fiction or just looking for a good read."
-Scott Turner
**** Four Star Amazon Review!
"I have never been a fan of the Wild West (but) now I am! Wonderfully descriptive."
-Barbara Siebers
***** Five Star Amazon Review!
"I didn't want to stop reading. A facinating story and eye opener as to how things were. It makes me want to know more of the early history of this country."
-Christopher Philp
***** Five Star Amazon Review!
"It is extremely rare for me to find a book so engaging that I truly cannot put it down... I highly recommend this novel to anyone who loves a good yarn."
-Gene Hobson
***** Five Star Amazon Review!
"Great book, fun to read. I kept picturing Val Kilmer and Dennis Quaid in their movie personifications."
-K.Smith
Everyone knows about Wyatt Earp's exciting life story, the legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral and how a best friend nicknamed Doc was there to back him up to the hilt, even willing to die for Wyatt and his brothers.
Doc Holliday's intrepid young life was full to the brim with endless stories of his own impossibly romantic adventures. His gallant youth was a series of swaggering, witty conflicts as he ran headlong into danger and countless deadly exploits long before he ever met up with that somber young Deputy Marshal named Earp or arrived in a bustling little silver town called Tombstone.
In fact, he'd only just reached the tender young age of twenty-one, after a tragic but escapade filled Civil War childhood, when his doctors in Atlanta gave the handsome young man his final death sentence. "Only six months left to live, son," they grimly assured him. "Consumption."
But this steely young gentleman from the deep South didn’t simply surrender to his horrible fate and curl up into a ball to die. He stood up on his hind legs, brushed himself off and disappeared into the Wild West like a ghost...destined to become 'Doc Holliday' instead.
And once far out West, hopelessly lost and wandering all alone in the endless sun scorched madness of the Badlands, he was entirely cut off, excommunicated from everything and everyone he had ever loved. Young Doc found himself truly 'Fighting for Air', in every possible way, as each precious second ticked slowly by and he struggled just to stay alive long enough to reach the other side of the next bloody sundown.
How could this sickly young dentist, with all of his formal education and gentlemanly upbringing transform himself so radically into the avenging anti-hero who took on the meanest bad men the savage Wild West had to offer?
And why would valiant Wyatt Earp, of all people, trust this brash, drunken gambler and notoriously deadly young gunslinger so implicitly with his own noble young life?
All of these questions are finally answered in 'Fighting for Air - the Unknown Adventures of Young Doc Holliday' by Jack Kincade.
'Fighting for Air...’ is a brand new epic Western novel spanning the most exciting, courageous years of Young Doc Holliday’s formative life, following his dangerous ascent from early Southern Civil War childhood into the making of his own glorious Western Legend.
It’s a huge, stirring American fable filled with young love and unexpected loss; perfect friendship and unquestionable honor, all set amid the swirling gun smoke of his heroic and blood stained youth.
This is how the boy became the man.
And some say it all happened just like this...
