of heart transplant inspired a novel
By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times
January 7, 2007
Terrell Hansen, an Orange County heart transplant recipient who inspired author Michael Connelly to write "Blood Work," the best-selling mystery novel that became a Clint Eastwood movie, has died. He was 65.
Hansen, a Garden Grove resident, died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from a stroke he suffered in April, said his wife, Linda.
For a first-time novelist at his first book signing, Connelly couldn't have met a more enthusiastic fan than Hansen at the Mysterious Bookshop in West Hollywood in 1992.
Forced to retire from his job as a mechanical engineer at a heavy construction equipment manufacturing company after he was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart disease in 1991 and placed on a waiting list for a heart transplant, Hansen had become a part-time book dealer specializing in modern first-edition mysteries.
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