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The legend of John Henry Holliday at last comes to light in this tragic saga of the Old West. More than a simple gunfighter and gambler, Doc Holliday is a sensitive yet sardonic gentleman through whose eyes readers experience the bitter harshness of the new frontier.
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Doc Holliday, friend of Wyatt Earp, emerges as a sharply defined, tragic character in Eickhoff's fifth book (after The Raid). John Henry Holliday tells his own story with just the right balance of guilt and grit, candor and clarity to make it believable and absorbing. Doc is a proud Southern gentleman whose life has gone sour. As a frontier dentist, he's a failure, more adept at card-sharping and pistol-slinging than he is at yanking molars. Afflicted with consumption, he coughs up his lungs in smoked-filled gambling halls from Dodge City to Tombstone, aware of his doom and caring for nothing but his honor. His deadly reputation brings few friends and no future, just more whiskey and more challenges to face his cards and pistols. He longs for a quick death, but can't take his own life (wouldn't be honorable). Instead, he provokes frontier thugs and bullies to do what he can't do himself, but when the gunsmoke clears, Doc is still alive. Only when Earp persuades him to ride off to the O.K. Corral does Doc's life take on meaning. Bad whiskey, bad women and bad luck carry Doc to his own destruction, but not before he squares accounts with some of the West's worst hombres in this engaging and morally ambiguous tale. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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John Henry "Doc" Holliday first confronted death as an adolescent in Reconstruction Georgia in the mid-1860s. With Yankee carpetbaggers working diligently to strip what remained of southern dignity, young John shot a man when he bragged of molesting John's mother. After his father sent him away to protect him from the law, he gambled, drank, and immersed himself in the pleasures of the flesh. With the onset of tuberculosis, he went West, falling in with the Earp brothers and participating in the infamous shootout at the OK Corral. Eickhoff's Holliday is a symbol of the West itself, burning brightly but ever so briefly as encroaching civilization extinguished the flame. Although Eickhoff imbues Holliday with a mythic grandeur that--especially near the conclusion--becomes burdensome, this is still a great adventure, well told. (One cautionary note: southerner Holliday's attitude toward the black Union occupation troops is brutally racist.) --Wes Lukowsky