The Accomplice: Bucking the Tiger

by Marcus Galloway

Book Overview

Second in the series-for fans of Deadwood and Western legends. Caleb Wayfinder's partnership with Doc Holliday leads them to Fort Griffin and the chance to make some real money as professional gamblers. But a shadowy organization known as The Tiger takes a cut of all the gambling operations on the circuit- and Caleb isn't willing to play The Tiger's game.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425219739
• ISBN13: 9780425219737
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

"Near the door was a man with a banjo playing music that was lazy as a Louisiana summer."

An excellent Old West novel in all respects. This is the first novel that I've read by this relatively new writer;at least to me.The main character in this story is about the no less infamous, Doc Holliday.It is offered as totally fictional,but I suspect it is a pretty good representation of the early days when Holliday had just come west from Georgia.Holliday (1851-1887) was about 21 when he knew he had contacted "Galloping Consumption" or Tuberculosis: when he took his doctor's advice to head West to a drier climate. A dentist by trade,Holliday soon developed a preference for whiskey over milk,gambling over work and ultimately,gunfire over debate. So,in this story we meet up with Holliday in Dallas around 1875; before the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corrral,alongside the Earps,6 years later in 1881. In this story we are introduced to his friend and partner,Caleb Wayfinder, as they join up in Dallas,and experience life along the gambling circuit in Dallas,on to Fort Griffin,Jacksboro and eventually to Denver; "Bucking The Tiger" in more ways than one. Galloway's writing is excellent; and while giving great details about the games of chance,the saloons where they were plyed,the chracters that were encountered and the eventual disputes that broke out,and an overall appreciation of the trials and tribulations that were the life of gunslingers and gamblers;he writes in a way that keeps the action rolling ,non stop. Galloway is a good storyteller,and he gives us some great experiences of our well known Doc Holliday,in his early years in the West. I'll surely be looking for more from this writer whose style is to write a good western,filled with adventure,history,action,real Old West flavor ,expressions and characters,and yes,some legend and fiction; without resorting to mystery ,clues and motives.