I very much enjoyed the time period and the story as a whole, but there were so many characters to keep up with that you really didn't get a feel for any of them in detail.

The middle kind of lagged for me but the last third of the book became very interesting again and I was captivated through to the end. I liked that the author followed the outlaws til they met their end as well as the lawmen who had pursued them. Their hideouts in different locations was interesting but again, not a lot of detail.

Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to read and review this book, I did learn some things I didn't know about some of the infamous outlaws.

Thanks to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for inviting me to read this draft in exchange for a review. I'm a little undecided about this book. Overall I enjoyed it and learned a lot more about the Wild Bunch than I knew before, but I'm still a bit disappointed as well. For a book about the Hole-in-the-wall it really didn't provide a great deal of information about the place. and what it was like for those living there. And while I learned a little about the various members of the Wild Bunch, it was a bit of a jack of all trades, master of none. If you're looking for a general study of the gang, it's members and their exploits, then this is the book for you. It covers all of the gang members, as well as the lawmen trailing them, and the people associated with both. It provides capsule histories of them all, some with more detail than others. But if you are looking for a real biography of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, etc. you should probably look elsewhere if you want more detail. What it does well is to provide a general history of the area known as Robbers Roost and the Hole in the Wall and of the Wild Bunch and the lawmen hunting them, then you might want to find some of the biographies of the various characters as listed in the bibliography for a more thorough look at the individuals of interest to you. For someone like myself, who did not know much about the gang know collectively as the Wild Bunch, I found it very helpful and worth the read.