Billy the Kid, born in 1859, shot dead at the age of 22 – and for every year of his life, there was a death, people said. Of all the legends that ever existed in the Wild West, he was the greatest. Michael Ondaatje gives a voice to the notorious Western hero and lets him recount his final adventure with a deadly outcome, poetically, in a realistically fantastical tone. The powerful, vividly colored woodcuts by Stefanie Schilling illustrate the martyrdom of this last ride.