Justice for None - Hardcover

Hackman, Gene; Lenihan, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312324251 ISBN 13: 9780312324254

Verlag: St Martin's Press, 2004

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On the run from the law after being falsely accused of murdering his estranged wife and her lover, troubled World War I veteran Boyd Carter joins forces with an African American who has also been wrongly accused for a crime, while a woman reporter and a veterans' sanitarium manager work to prove Carter's innocence. 50,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gene Hackman grew up as in a newspaper family in Danville, Illinois and is a two-time Oscar-winning actor for Unforgiven and The French Connection.

Daniel Lenihan is a leading underwater archaeologist, who writes frequently for Natural History magazine. Hackman and Lenihan have co-authored one previous novel, The Wake of the Perdido Star. Both live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Gene Hackman grew up as in a newspaper family in Danville, Illinois and is a two-time Oscar-winning actor for Unforgiven and The French Connection.

Daniel Lenihan is a leading underwater archaeologist, who writes frequently for Natural History magazine. Hackman and Lenihan have co-authored one previous novel, The Wake of the Perdido Star. Both live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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1929, Vermilion, Illinois. A prosperous small town just before the Depression.

On the fringe of polite society is Boyd Calvin, a World War I veteran still haunted by his experiences and unable to find a place for himself. Estranged from his once-loving wife, he drives a trolley and lives hand-to-mouth in a flophouse. When Boyd stumbles upon the scene of his wife's brutal killing, he loses his nerve and runs, only to be captured and jailed for double murder.

In prison, he meets and befriends George, a black convict accused of raping a white woman. Narrowly escaping a crowd's attempt to lynch them, the men flee for their lives, hiding together before making their way to the anonymity of Chicago and day labor paid in cash. Boyd cannot endure the fugitive's underworld and returns to Vermilion, surrendering to his fate. Yet his supporters - a woman from his long-dead mother's youth, a Chicago Tribune reporter, and his aging but still formidable attorney - continue to believe in his innocence, and convince Boyd to fight for the justice that has eluded him. As the country stumbles toward collapse, a dramatic trial begins in the stifling county courtroom, in which Boyd's war record might well prove to be his undoing.

A suspenseful novel, filled with twists and turns and an utterly surprising ending, Justice for None captures perfectly the Depression era Midwest in which Gene Hackman was raised -the grain silos, slaughterhouses, bars, barbershops and newspaper offices of small town and city life. It also explores issues of race, class, truth, and the human consequences of war, with a vivid cast of characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways.

"Absorbing...with all the moral complexities, last-minute revelations, and gravel-pounding histrionics that the genre requires...recalls classic American courtroom thrillers from To Kill a Mockingbird to Intruder in the Dust. Great small-town period detail."
--Kirkus Reviews

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: St Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312324251
• ISBN 13: 9780312324254
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 307
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