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Country United States Publication date August 31, 1993 ISBN 0-679-41985-3 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Awards Martin Beck Award | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 335 pp Originally published 31 August 1993 Adaptations A Simple Plan (1998) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Summary
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.
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