Gene Hackman
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 familyâ€™s laughter and love, his paâ€™s wisdom, maâ€™s thick books, and everything that was defiled by a band of drunken renegades towed along by one manâ€™s murderous grudge. A reprobate lawman wonâ€™t believe his story. A soft-hearted mountain man wonâ€™t survive Jubalâ€™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 forâ€”or die forâ€”redeeming. ,An American film icon delivers a great American novel with ,Payback at Morning Peak. ,Gene Hackman, whose fiction is â€œrousingâ€ (,Publishers Weekly,) and â€œrobustâ€ (,Winston-Salem Journal,), takes readers on a powerful and historically dead-on western odyssey in the tradition of Louis Lâ€™Amour.
Westerns,Fiction
Payback At Morning Peak-A Novel Of The American West