Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart torn between dedicated worship and murderous jealousy, the dirty little coward who coveted Jesse’s legend. The powerful, strange, and unforgettable story of their interweaving paths–and twin destinies that would collide in a rain of blood and betrayal–is a story of America in all her rough, conflicted glory and the myths that made her.