Smith, Scott

a novel

A simple plan

Alexa M

Pretty good entertainment, very fast moving plot. This just didn’t have anything special or unique for this genre (to be expected considering its release date). 

This could be a 3.5 but suffers heavily from ‘written by a man’ syndrome. Like we GET IT your brother is ‘fat’ you don’t have to mention it EVERY TIME we see him.

Melody Izard

These guys - sort of some ne'er do well types, find a crashed plane in the snow. There's money in the plane and they hatch a plan to take the money and not report it. It sounds simple. But every action moves them closer and closer to catastrophe. I had seen the Billy Bob movie way back. First time to read the book though. Both movie and book are worth the time.

Jordan Robinson

A. D. Knapp

Alex Webster

simple plan

Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

Scott Smith

Every year, on 31 December, Hank and his older brother Jacob make a pilgrimage to their father's grave. They have never been close - indeed, they have never even liked one another - but they keep this promise, made to their father before he died. This year Jacob's friend Lou comes with them. As they drive towards the cemetery in Jacob's truck through the snowbound landscape, a fox runs across the road, and they skid on the ice and crash. Jacob's dog chases the fox through the deep snow. The three men follow him, beating their way through the drifts, until they come to a valley where they see a small plane, belly down in the snow. In the pilot's seat is a dead man, his eyes pecked out by the crows. In the back they discover a duffle bag. In the bag is 4.4 million dollars. A Simple Plan is a novel that slowly but surely grips the reader by the throat as it unfolds in an inevitable and doomed spiral of events, through murder, betrayal and mass killing. From its deceptively simple beginning, to its horrific and surprising conclusion, it marks the début of an extraordinary new talent.

A simple plan a novel

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