A Simple Plan (novel)
{{Short description|1993 thriller novel by Scott Smith}}
{{Other uses|A Simple Plan (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox book |
| name = A Simple Plan
| image = image:ASimplePlan.jpg
| border = yes
| caption = First edition
| author = Scott Smith
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Thriller
| publisher = Knopf
| pub_date = August 31, 1993
| media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
| pages = 335 pp
| isbn = 0-679-41985-3
| dewey = 813/.54 20
| congress = PS3569.M5379759 S57 1993
| oclc = 27187407
}}
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.{{Cite news | last=Kamiya | first=Gary | title=Welcome to the Jungle | newspaper=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/books/review/30kamiya.html?_r=1 | date=July 30, 2006 | accessdate=June 17, 2012}}
Plot
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 hundred dollar bills. 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
In its 1993 review, The New York Times called A Simple Plan a "beautifully controlled and disturbing first novel."{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/19/books/choosing-evil.html|title=Choosing Evil|first=Rosellen|last=Brown|date=September 19, 1993|work=The New York Times}} The Chicago Tribune described the book as "a tragic journey as compelling, resolute and relentlessly grim as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-08-29-9308290162-story.html|title=THIS 'SIMPLE PLAN' IS AN ALMOST TRAGIC TALE OF PURE GREED|first=Les|last=Standiford|website=Chicago Tribune|date=August 29, 1993}}
References
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Category:American novels adapted into films
Category:American thriller novels