NATIONAL BESTSELLER Born to the life of a Southern gentleman,Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soonwith few job prospectsDoc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partnerMária Katarina Haronya high-strungclassically educated Hungarian whore. In search of high-stakes pokerthe couple hits the saloons of Dodge City. And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a fearless lawman named Wyatt Earp begins— before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology—when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.