KNITTING DIGEST
KNITTING DIGEST

Hackman's novel a good yarn

While some of his fellow actors were busy writing memoirs, Gene Hackman was working on his first solo novel. We know from movies like "Unforgiven" and "Bite the Bullet" that the Oscar winner can ride a horse, but how well can he wrangle Western fiction?

Just fine, it turns out.

"Payback at Morning Peak" is a satisfying revenge tale that takes place in New Mexico, a place Hackman called home long before he retired from the silver screen in 2004. He sets his story at a time when the American Southwest still was a lively and, at times, lawless frontier.

Just shy of 18, Jubal Young is a good boy schooled in literature by an educated mother and brought up on the land by an honest, hardworking father. When a dispute over their farm in the shadow of Morning Peak turns violent and Jubal loses all he loves, he tries to put aside a yearning for immediate retribution and to seek justice instead.

Justice isn't easy to come by. Bad men set their own rules, and most lawmen don



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