Sidekick: The Tale of Billy the Kid and the Giants of Colorado

Mythic West #1

by Edward J. Knight

The Jotunheim giants poured through the rift at Andersonville and annihilated both the Union and the Confederacy. Only the desperate efforts of a few heroes stopped them in the West, at the battle of Golden City, Colorado. Those heroes became legends.Billy McCarty watched those heroes win the battle. He grew up reading the dime novels and dreaming about being like them. So when Giant Killer Cassidy came to town, Billy swore he’d join Cassidy’s team. No longer a kid, he’d do anything to be by Cassidy’s side.But “anything” could carry a high price, in both blood and honor. A high price he might have to pay repeatedly.In the Mythic West, where gunslingers battle monsters of nightmare, Sidekick follows the epic adventure that began a hero’s rise.

334 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 24, 2017

About the author

A fourth generation Coloradoan, Edward J. Knight only left the Denver-Boulder area long enough to learn how to put a satellite into orbit. Four satellites (and counting) later, he’s returned to both the mountains and writing fantastical fiction. Along the way, he met the love of his life and became the father of two wonderfully curious kids. He’s a huge fan of tightly constructed universes and smart plots. He’s also recently become a fan of historical “what ifs”. Sometimes that detail is “magical,” such as in his Mythic West novels. More of his work can be found at edwardjknight.com.

Reviews

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love a good weird western, and Sidekick has everything I love about the genre…plus freakin’ Jotunheim! But the story is much more than Billy the Kid vs. giants. It reimagines the Old West as it was in the 1800s, after a rift allows mythological creatures, like the Jotunheim, into our world. With fantastic worldbuilding, epic shootouts, and an exploration of what it means to be a hero, I highly recommend it, especially if you like your weird west to be more fantasy than horror. I tore through this one, and I look forward to reading the next in the Mythic West series.