Justice for none

By Gene Hackman

Subjects: Veterans, World War, 1914-1918, African americans, fiction, False testimony, Male friendship, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, African American men, Fiction, Illinois, fiction, Women journalists, Middle west, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fugitives from justice, Race relations

Description: In their second novel, Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan bring to life the harsh plains and smouldering courtrooms of the Midwest: the small town of Vermilion, Illinois, on the brink of the Great Depression. Boyd Calvin is a troubled World War I veteran on the run from the law, suspected of murdering his estranged wife and her lover. Only a female reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the head of a sanitarium for veterans are not convinced of Boyd's guilt. Boyd joins forces with another wrongly accused man, an African-American, and the two begin to face their shadowed pasts while fighting against the odds of justice.