Filmmaker and journalist team up on new crime thriller novel set in Illinois

"Disturbing the Bones” is the name of a new novel set in Illinois. It’s part crime story and part geopolitical thriller. The book is a collaboration between film director Andrew Davis and journalist Jeff Biggers.
 
Both men are sons of Illinois. Davis was raised in Chicago, and went on to direct big Hollywood films such as “The Fugitive,” “Under Siege,” and “Holes.” Along the way he worked with luminaries such as Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, Kneau Reeves and Morgan Freeman, and Michael Douglas and Gwynyth Paltrow, and others. Jeff Biggers is also from Illinois — though at the opposite end of the state. He’s written at least 10 books, including “Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition,” and “Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland.”

Davies and Biggers discuss their experience working together and how "Disturbing the Bones" came into fruition on the 21st today.

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Andrew Davis 
Co-author, “Disturbing the Bones”
Director, “The Fugitive,” “Under Siege,” “Holes,” etc.

Jeff Biggers 
Co-author, “Disturbing the Bones” 
Author, “In Sardinia,” “Resistance,” and “The United State of Appalachia,” “Reckoning at Eagle Creek,” etc.