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 one of the Wild West's greatest real life heroes flash 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. 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. This is how that young man became the Legend. And some say it all happened just like this...
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Born in Fairbanks, Alaska into a career Air Force family, grew-up all across the country before serving four years in the Marine Corps himself; winner of the UCLA Film School 'Jim Morrison Award' and Emmy Award nominee; this is Hollywood screenwriting veteran's Jack Kincade's great Western novel. Hope you all enjoy the ride. Happy Trails.
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Born in Fairbanks, Alaska into a career Air Force family, Jack Kincade grew up all across the face of this great country, from Beverly, Massachusetts to Twenty-nine Palms, California, from Presque Isle, Maine to Albany, Georgia and everywhere in between, before serving four years in the Marine Corps himself. Winner of the UCLA Film School 'Jim Morrison Award' and Emmy Award nominee in sound, this is Hollywood screenwriting veteran Jack Kincade's great Western novel.
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Gets really slow,
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This review is from: Fighting for Air - the Unknown Adventures of Young Doc Holliday (Kindle Edition)
The book starts out with great promise and a great premise, but. By the time Doc fianlly gets to Dallas the book starts to bog down, by the time he gets to Fort Griffin you are scanning not reading. There are too many unlikely coincidences, too much fluff and far too much repetition in the story line and in the action to keep it neatly strung together and moving along.
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Fighting for Air - An Excellent Read,
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I found "Fighting for Air - The Unknown Adventures of the Young Doc Holliday" an excellent and highly enjoyable read. The well paced story takes you through the life of Doc Holliday up to the point most people know him. I really enjoyed the historical detail of the novel covering Holliday's experiences through the Civil War, the carpetbagger era in the South and the boom of the U.S. as the country expands westward in the later part of the 1800s. Against this historical backdrop, the author does an outstanding job of getting inside the character of Doc Holliday to help understand the events and people in his life that created the man everyone knows mostly from the OK Corral. The history altering events that Holliday witnesses are covered from his viewpoint and give a unique personal perspective into how these events affected both Holiday's course in life and individuals of this time period. Yet the narrative never stops to digress into an extended history lesson. There are numerous well drawn supporting characters both historical and fictional that come in and out of Holliday's life along the way. As with the events he experiences, the effect these people have in the choices Holliday makes in his life are fascinating. Putting historical events and characters aside, the book is also a fun, rip-roaring, fast paced adventure! 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.
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This review is from: Fighting For Air-The Unknown Adventures Of Young Doc Holliday (Paperback)
Jack Kincade's new novel entitled Fighting for Air, The Unknown Adventures of Young Doc Holliday is a spectacular read. It's an historical novel based on Doc Holliday's life and adventures: a totally involving, magnetic history of an unusual and exceptional individual which keeps you on the edge of your seat just waiting for what will happen next I found this to be a true page turner in every sense of the word. Jack Kincade casts a spell over the reader from the minute you crack open his book and read the opening paragraph. A spell which cannot be denied nor one you ever wish to end.
It's a rare event when one finds a novel which reads like riding the rapids straight to the open sea. This novel wets your appetite with each page and maintains your interest from one chapter to the next. Consequently, I devoured it all in a day and a half just because I couldn't put it down. I was sorry to see the story come to an end. To say that I would recommend this to one and all is an understatement. I can easily see this turned into a movie or cable series.
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