D.B.
by Elwood Reid

Cover Design: Killian Strong

Crime Paperback Original

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UK: Nov 2006

In 1971 a man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacked a flight, claimed his ransom without harming a soul and vanished. He parachuted out of the plane over the dense woods of the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 strapped to his body. 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 time cards and wondering what could have been. Fitch ends up in Mexico, where he drifts until a turn of bad luck forces him to return home.

Meanwhile, retired FBI agent Frank Marshall, struggling with his new life of leisure – fishing, drinking too much, tempted to embark on an affair with a female witness -- decides to help a young agent determined to solve the case of D.B. Cooper. An odyssey, a manhunt, a gripping and frequently hilarious tale.

Author Information
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.

Praise for D.B.
''Masterfully told, D.B. ranks among the best and most entertaining books of the year.'' Pittsburgh Tribune

''This hard-boiled literary page-turner cloaks a meditation on the "crime of crime"; the endless aftermath of its aftershocks...'' Mark Richard, author of 'Fishboy'

Internet links
Reid- Author Interview
www.breaktech.net/ EmergingWritersForum/ View_Interview.aspx?id=95

Reid-Review D.B.
www.annarborobserver.com/ reviews/ 0407.elwoodreid-review.html

Reid-Failbetter Interview
www.failbetter.com/ 15/ ReidInterview.htm

Reid-Library Journal
www.libraryjournal.com/ article/ CA421029.html