Academy Award–winning actor Gene Hackman spins a cinematic tale of pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure. Co-written with Daniel Lenihan, one of America's leading authorities on shipwrecks and diving, Wake of the Perdido Star is a moving story of a young boy's coming of age on the high seas, full of authentic nautical and historical detail. A 19th-century sea adventure in the spirit of Patrick O'Brian, Wake of the Perdido Star is a captivating...

This book captures perfectly the Depression - era Midwest in which Gene Hackman was raised --- the grain silos, slaughterhouses, bars, barbershops, and newspaper offices of amall - town and city life. It also explores issues of race, class, truth, and the human consequeneces of war, with a vivid cast of characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways.

A two-fisted cop gets teamed up with an amazing detective who is just a little crazy.

A Mississippi Klan member is accused of bombing the office of a civil rights activist. The first two trials result in a hung jury, but twelve years later a re-trial results in a death sentence. Years later, within weeks of the scheduled execution, a new lawyer requests to work on the case.

A mother-daughter con team attempts to take advantage of a tobacco tycoon.

Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.

After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a "jury consultant" who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee...

Ten survivors struggle to reach safety after an ocean liner capsizes in mid sea.

Two lawyers, father and daughter, face off against each other in a multimillion dollar lawsuit. The case concerns a potentially defective auto design that could involve corporate corruption and violations of legal ethics.

A man tries to find his son, who is listed as "missing in action" in Laos, with the help of five of his son's Marine buddies.