In the rich epic vein of 'Lonesome Dove', 'Tombstone' and 'Wyatt Earp', this great new American Western novel seems hand-forged right out of the glowing gun metal and billowing blue gun smoke of close quarters combat itself. Finally these stirring unknown chapters of one of the Wild West's greatest real life heroes flashes dangerously to life across the open pages of 'Fighting for Air - the Unknown Adventures of Young Doc Holliday' by Jack Kincade as if illuminated by gunfire. Everyone knows all about Wyatt Earp's exciting life story, the legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral and how a true blue, best friend nicknamed Doc was there to back him up to the hilt, even willing to die for him and his brothers. But very few Western fans know anything at all about the extraordinary past of the infamous and deadly Doc Holliday, Wyatt's mythically loyal best friend and constant companion 'in all dangers'. Unfortunately that unknown story had been lost to us on the winds of time. Until now. And that's history's bloody shame. Because witty Doc Holliday's heroic and incredibly romantic early notable young life was full to the brim with endless stories of his own impossible adventures. His heroic youth was filled with swaggering conflicts with all authority figures as he ran headlong into countless deadly solitary 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 ravaged childhood, when his distraught 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 bravely on his hind legs, brushed himself off and disappeared into the Wild West like a ghost...destined to become 'Young Doc Holliday' instead. And once far out West, hopelessly lost in the endless sun-scorched madness of the Badlands and wandering all alone, he found himself entirely cut off and excommunicated from everything and everyone he had ever loved. Young Doc found himself truly 'Fighting for Air', in every possible way, as each tense minute of each new frightening day ticked by, he struggled just to stay alive long enough to reach the other side of the bloody sundown. Every second of what was left of Young Doc's tragically foreshortened life now felt cursed. Whether awake or asleep, he waited expectantly for the Grim Reaper to suddenly rise-up without warning to attack him at any time of day, be it with the ravaging disease that chased him down like a relentless Dark Posse in his fevered, choking nightmares or just another scary run in with one more sun-crazed, drunken gunman out looking to spill some rebel blood for fun. Either way the darkness came in at Doc from every direction, trying to steal away his last precious breath from him as if it were owed. His only duty was to protect himself, as he saw it. His single, solitary obligation was to stay alive long enough to see that next treasured sunrise and greedily steal back the next grateful lung full of hot dry air that he felt his own stolen Youth owed him so desperately. All that was left of his finely educated young life now balanced precariously on the finely honed razor's edge of his more savage wits and natural instincts, as well as his more formidable and deadly abilities with not only card, but blade and gun as well. So how in the world did the very proper Doctor John Henry Holliday D.D.S. of Griffin, Georgia ever become the dashingly brave Doc Holliday of Western Legend? 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 young man. This is how that young man became the Legend. And some say it all happened just like this...