A Simple Plan

By Scott Smith

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

A Simple Plan is a 1993 thriller and the debut novel of Scott Smith. Hank Mitchell, his older brother Jacob and their friend Lou discover a crashed plane in a snowy Ohio forest. Inside are a dead pilot and a bag holding more than four million dollars in cash. The three men decide to keep the money, and their simple plan to hide it unravels into suspicion, betrayal and murder. Smith adapted the novel into the 1998 film directed by Sam Raimi, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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