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Gene Hackman

Born: January 30, 1930 in San Bernardino, California
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Hackman spent most of his childhood in Danville and attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Biography: Gene Hackman is an author and two-time Academy Award-winning American actor with lauded performances in such films as ''Unforgiven'', ''Bonnie and Clyde'', ''The French Connection'', ''Mississippi Burning'', and ''Hoosiers''. He currently resides in Sante Fe, New Mexico.


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Gene Hackman Home Page on the Danville Public Library Website : http://www.danville.lib.il.us/Pathfinder/hackman.htm
Gene Hackman on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=gene++hackman


Selected Titles

Escape from Andersonville :
ISBN: 0312363737 OCLC: 191865890

St. Martin's Press, New York : ©2008.

Incarcerated within a murderous Confederate prison camp in 1864, Union officer Nathan Parker escapes and urges his superiors to intervene, but when his efforts are blocked by military higher-ups, he organizes a private rescue mission with a shady ex-soldier.

Escape from Andersonville :
ISBN: 9780312587598 OCLC: 430497301

St Martin's Griffin ; New York : 2009.

Union Capt. Nathan Parker, commanding the Michigan 5th is captured along with 23 of his men outside Washington, D.C., during JubalEarly's July 1864 Confederate raid. Two months later, Nathan breaks out of Andersonville Prison, vowing to return and save his soldiers.

  Justice for none
ISBN: 1593556659 OCLC: 428732106

Brilliance Audio, Grand Haven, Mich. : ℗2004.

Boyd Carter is a troubled World War I veteran on the run from the law, suspected of murdering his estranged wife and her lover. Ony 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 fightng against the odds of justice.

Justice for none /
ISBN: 0312995172 OCLC: 62796183

St. Martin's ; New York : 2006.

Payback at Morning Peak :
ISBN: 1451623569 OCLC: 687669523

"Life, not death, drove Jubal Young, but memories of his ma and pa, and his beautiful, bright sister are all he has left. Memories of the peaceful days before Jubal stumbled home with his .22, his blood running cold with fear, terror, and anger. When it was over, the homestead was half burned to the ground. Someone had to bury the bodies. Someone had to set things right. Now, as Jubal rides west into New Mexico, he remembers his family's laughter and love, his pa's wisdom, ma's thick books, and everything that was defiled by a band of drunken renegades towed along by one man's murderous grudge. A reprobate lawman won't believe his story. A soft-hearted mountain man won't survive Jubal's one-man war. And a judge and his beautiful daughter cannot stop Jubal from climbing a peak of blood and madness: for justice, or payback, or something he can live for--or die for--redeeming."--Back cover.

Payback at Morning Peak :
ISBN: 9781451623581 OCLC: 891873725

With only memories of his family left to him, Jubal Young rides west into New Mexico in order to bring justice, or vengeance, to the drunken renegades that took everything from him.

Pursuit
ISBN: 9781410467324 OCLC: 865496346

Once-straitlaced officer Juliette Worth is wrongly demoted after a hostage situation gone wrong and reassigned to investigating cold-case disappearances, a situation that turns sinister when her own daughter goes missing.

  Pursuit /
ISBN: 1451623577 OCLC: 857568111

Pocket Books, New York : 2013.

Once-straitlaced officer Juliette Worth is wrongly demoted after a hostage situation gone wrong and reassigned to investigating cold-case disappearances, a situation that turns sinister when her own daughter goes missing.

Wake of the Perdido Star /
ISBN: 1557043981 OCLC: 42027535

Newmarket Press, New York : ©1999.

A young man's adventures at sea in the early 1800s. After his parents are murdered in Cuba, Jack O'Reilly enlists on a U.S. merchant ship, where he distinguishes himself in deep diving, becomes a pirate and returns to Cuba to seek revenge on his parents' killers.

  Wake of the Perdido Star.
ISBN: 9781536626957 OCLC: 959808334

Brilliance Audio 2016.

 

 

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