Justice for none

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.

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

Places: Illinois

Times: 1930s,  1865-