D.B.: A Novel - Softcover

Reid, Elwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385497393 ISBN 13: 9780385497398

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 2005

Synopsis

In 1971, a man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacked a flight, claimed his ransom without harming a soul, and vanished. Elwood Reid uses this true story as a starting point, imagining Cooper as Phil Fitch, a Vietnam vet with a failed marriage who decides the time has come to do something that will save him from a life of punching timecards and wondering what could have been. Fitch ends up in Mexico, where he drifts until a bad turn of luck forces him to return home.

Meanwhile, newly retired FBI agent Frank Marshall is struggling with his new life of leisure-fishing, spending time with family, and drinking too much. Unable to let go of a few old cases, Marshall decides to help a young agent determined to solve the mystery of D. B. Cooper. As they close in and events bring Fitch back home, these two stories head for a moving climax in a smart, gripping, and frequently hilarious tale of one of America's modern folk heroes.

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Review:

"Flawless . . . A glorious ride." -The Boston Globe"Masterfully told, D.B. ranks among the best and most entertaining books of the year." -Pittsburgh Tribune "Reid writes smart and direct prose. . . . By shifting the reader's attention from the overtly dramatic to the psychological, Reid has written something much more engaging than the mere suspense novel D.B. might have been." --The New York Times Book Review"A thoughtful and funny imagining of the life of D.B. Cooper." --Esquire"Wild and alive, an epic manhunt and a brutal social portrait, D.B. is the road trip of your dreams -- Hunter Thompson does the driving but John Steinbeck holds the map." -Mark Costello, author of Big If

About the Author:

ELWOOD REID is the author of the novels If I Don't Six and Midnight Sun and the story collection What Salmon Know. He has written for GQ and is a frequent contributor to Outside magazine. He lives in Montana.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0385497393
• ISBN 13: 9780385497398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368