Billy has always lives a hard life with her mother.

To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang.

This fictional tale of real-life legend Billy the Kid imagines William Bonney's fate had his life of crime taken a very different turn. This edition includes an author's note about the real Billy the Kid.

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Chris Lincoln has created a richly imaginative, highly original world.

... Billy's father Joe and his uncle Nathan (or Nat), who was a single man who never married, ran Nook Farm between them. They were involved in sheep farming predominantly. In those days all farms in the valley had a cow and their own ...

Intrusion is a tale of rivalry that mirrors world conflict. "Every character in the novel comes to life under Minett’s insightful prose. . .” Casee Clow, USA

... Billy's mother and let her know I intend to tell the authorities if such a thing ever happens again, and at the same time I will file suit for custody of Billy on the ground of child abuse." She rose from the nook. "In fact, I will call ...

... Billy's unseeing " welkin " eyes ( BB 44 ) ( but also through his " luminous ... Billy's guilt ( " as if the moon emerging from eclipse should reappear with ... nook ; But ' twill die in the dawning of Billy's last day . A jewel - block ...

But then his father disappears, and Billy’s mother brings him out into the world at last. He learns the horrifying story of what was saved and what was destroyed on the day he was born, the day the bombers came to Blinkbonny.