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D.B.

A Novel

Elwood Reid

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English
Random House USA Inc
15 July 2005
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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Imprint:   Random House USA Inc
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   272g
ISBN:   9780385497398
ISBN 10:   0385497393
Pages:   368
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for D.B.: A Novel

Flawless . . . A glorious ride. - The Boston Globe <br> Masterfully told, D.B. ranks among the best and most entertaining books of the year. - Pittsburgh Tribune <br> 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 <br> A thoughtful and funny imagining of the life of D.B. Cooper. -- Esquire <br> 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


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