Bill Doolin: American Outlaw - Hardcover

Bill Brooks is the author of many highly acclaimed historical and frontier fiction novels. After a lifetime of working a variety of jobs, Brooks turned to his first love―writing. Brooks wrote a string of frontier fiction novels, beginning with The Badmen (1992) and Buscadero (1993), before he attempted something more lyrical and literary: The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid (2002). The Stone Garden was compared by Booklist with classics like The Virginian and Hombre. Brooks went on to write in succession three series of Western novels, beginning with Law For Hire (2003), then, Dakota Lawman (2005), and finished up with The Journey of Jim Glass (2007). He lives and writes in Florida. His next Five Star Publishing Western will be The Life and Times of Tom Dooley, coming November 2016.

“Bill Doolin, an American bank robber in the late 1800s, was part of the infamous Doolin-Dalton gang, which primarily worked the Oklahoma and Kansas territories. There is an almost noirish sense of inevitable doom as Tilghman and his posse close in on Doolin, but Brooks imbues each of the characters with a unique personality and moral code. The lawmen aren’t all heroic; the outlaws aren’t inherently evil. A fine historical novel, with appeal beyond western fans.”
---Booklist Review
“Another riveting tale from an acknowledged master of the western genre, Bill Doolin: American Outlaw by Bill Brooks is a fictional account based on factual evidence about the last of the badmen and unreservedly recommended for community library Western Fiction collections and the personal reading lists of western action/adventure fans.”
---Library Bookwatch