Fighting for Air - the Unknown Adventures of Young Doc Holliday

by Jack Kincade

Written in the rich epic vein of 'Lonesome Dove', 'Tombstone' and 'Wyatt Earp', this vast new American Western novel seems hand-forged right out of the glowing gun metal and billowing blue gun smoke of close quarters combat. Finally these unwritten chapters of the early years of one of the Wild West's greatest real life heroes flash dangerously to life across the open pages of 'Fighting for Air'.

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First published July 3, 2008

About the author

After discovering the world's brightest minds still couldn't explain gravity, he took offense and joined the Marine Corps. After four years of that high adventure, he dashed west with his future wife to attend the UCLA Film School and then on to a career in Hollywood where he was lucky enough to be nominated for an Emmy and several other awards while working as the Supervising Sound Editor on 'Orange is the New Black'; 'Weeds'; 'Glow'; 'New Girl'; 'Hell on Wheels'; 'Chance'; 'VIP' as well as many others.

Reviews

[Joseph · Rating 2 out of 5]

Doc Holliday is one of the most colorful, fascinating characters in the history of the "Wild West." Having lived in Doc's hometown, Griffin, GA, as a child, I imagined what his life in Georgia was like before he moved west and rode into American consciousness. Fighting For Air imagines some of that life might have been like, although in a clumsy fashion. Many of the later events and even the dialogue seem to have been borrowed from movies like Tombstone and Wyatt Earp. The book is simultaneously entertaining and tedious as the author struggles to end scenes and repeats dialog over and over. It reads more like a comic book or a dime novel with the character Doc exhibiting superhuman traits.

[Mark Vargo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not bad, but disappointing if only because it was billed as being about "unknown" aspects of Doc's legend.