Synopsis This second novel by Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his good friend, underwater archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, is a suspenseful exploration of prejudice in the 1920s. Boyd Calvin, a WWI veteran still recovering from shell shock, is wrongly accused of murdering his estranged wife and her lover. In jail awaiting trial, he becomes friends with George, an African-American falsely accused of rape, and the two are forced to become fugitives after they barely escape a lynch mob. But Calvin is determined to clear his name; will he succeed, despite the evidence stacked against him?
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2006-02-07 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 344 pages | | Height: | 6.5 in | | Width: | 4.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Publisher's Note 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 of a crime, while a woman reporter and a veterans' sanitarium manager work to prove Carter's innocence. Reprint.
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