Billing his book as a dual biography of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, Mark Gardner bails into the oft-told tale (there are more than a thousand books on Billy the Kid) of the Las Vegas, New Mexico, train station where Garrett’s posse stands off a mob intent on getting to one of the Kid’s band. From there the story takes off lickity split like the locomotive that propelled Garrett and crew out of Las Vegas. Expertly marshaling all the known facts and utilizing quotes from the public record a


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