A Simple Plan (novel)
 First edition | |
| Author | Scott Smith |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | August 31, 1993 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 335 pp |
| ISBN | 0-679-41985-3 |
| OCLC | 27187407 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.M5379759 S57 1993 |
A Simple Plan is a 1993 thriller novel by Scott Smith. The New York Times review said the book had "emotional accuracy with an exceptionally skilled plot." A film adaptation, directed by Sam Raimi, was released in 1998; according to the Times review, the novel is so dark that the story was adjusted to soften the ending.[1]
Plot[edit]
Three men find an airplane crashed in a rural Northern Ohio forest. The pilot is dead and the cockpit contains a gym bag with $4.4 million in one-hundred-dollar notes. They decide to keep the money, dividing it equally, but their plans go wrong when others come close to discovering their secret, resulting in multiple murders.
Critical reception[edit]
In its 1993 review, The New York Times called A Simple Plan a "beautifully controlled and disturbing first novel."[2] The Chicago Tribune described the book as "a tragic journey as compelling, resolute and relentlessly grim as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Kamiya, Gary (July 30, 2006). "Welcome to the Jungle". The New York Times. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
- ^ Brown, Rosellen (September 19, 1993). "Choosing Evil". The New York Times.
- ^ Standiford, Les (August 29, 1993). "THIS 'SIMPLE PLAN' IS AN ALMOST TRAGIC TALE OF PURE GREED". Chicago Tribune.