A stark and violent exploration of an American myth, this is a novel about the doomed gunslinger Billy the Kid.
CHARLES NEIDER (1915-2001) was a Jewish refugee from Odessa who became a scholar of the works of Mark Twain. The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones was the basis of the only film directed by Marlon Brando, One-Eyed Jacks.
Neider's book is better than any other book on the subject of men,
horses and death, except Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry. Not a
far-fetched comparison when you consider that Neider – though
American-raised – was Odessa-born
*Clive Sinclair*
Great westerns are both mythic and defiantly down to earth, as is
this powerful ballet of menace
*Irish Times*
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