![]() Cash and Marshall Earp (yes, that is his name in the novel) encounter a few people from history that the reader would probably have heard about, even in the UK such as the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Butch Cassidy along with his expected sidekick. However, it has to be acknowledged that this is a very exciting story with plenty of the expected gunfights. For me the story could have been more “gritty” in its dialogue. The author may have intended it that way in the plot, or the targeted readers maybe include young readers as well as adults. Admittedly the heroes seem to be a lot more articulate in their speech and often eager to express themselves as lucid and educated but it felt at odds with their situation. ![]() I felt sure that more vernacular, maybe bad, language would have been common in those times and settings. At the start of the story and at later points I found some of the language and terms used to be a bit too contemporary, even tame at times. The main characters are quite well drawn and so are some of the less desirable individuals they meet along the way in their adventurous quest. ![]() They have a detective agency in a tough town with the story being told by Cash Holliday who is equally proficient with a six gun as his father was reputed to be. ![]() Set in 1896 this western has an interesting theme with the two main characters as the mature progeny of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. ![]()
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