First edition
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Author | Scott Smith |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date
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August 31, 1993 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 335 pp |
ISBN | |
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.
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.