John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel: Switchgrass Books
Autor Kenneth Womacken Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2010
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On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded just outside of Oklahoma City’s Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Within a matter of hours, the FBI launched the largest manhunt in U.S. history, identifying the suspects as Timothy James McVeigh and John Doe No. 2, a stocky twentysomething with a distinctive tattoo on his left arm. Eventually the FBI retracted the elusive mystery man as a bombing suspect altogether, proclaiming that McVeigh had acted alone and that John Doe No. 2 was the by-product of unreliable eyewitness testimony in the wake of the attack.
Womack recreates the events that led up to this fateful day from the perspective of John Doe No. 2—or JD, as he is referred to in the book. With his ironic and curiously detached persona, JD narrates—from a second-person point of view—his secret life with McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and others in America’s militia culture as McVeigh and JD crisscross the Midwest in McVeigh’s beloved Chevy Geo Spectrum.
John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel is the tragicomic account of McVeigh’s last desperate months of freedom, as he prepared to unleash one ofthe deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in the nation’s history. Womack’s novel traces one man’s downward spiral toward the act of evil that will brand his name in infamy and another’s desperate hope to save his friend’s soul before it’s too late.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780875806402
ISBN-10: 0875806406
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
Colecția Switchgrass Books
Seria Switchgrass Books
ISBN-10: 0875806406
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
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Recenzii
“A bold attempt to inhabit the mind of an individual whose very existence remains in dispute, and in doing so Womack makes this phantom figure seem remarkably real. This is the power of good fiction, of course, and Womack pulls it off spectacularly, mixing historical detail of the 1995 Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City and of domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh with vividly imagined details of John Doe's possible unwilling involvement.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire
“An engaging read. Addresses issues of domestic terrorism that are still significant today in the national debate. The suspense is sustained throughout the narrative. Womack's novel leaves us with the poignantly uneasy reminder that it is not that hard to become a fallen Quaker, or fallen war hero.”—Ray Petersen, author of Cowkind and the editor of Drummed Out
Notă biografică
Kenneth Womack is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Penn State University’s Altoona College. He is the author of numerous works of nonfiction, including Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles.
Extras
Lying on the dresser are mounds of receipts. From filling stations, mostly, across the Heartland. There’s a receipt for $2,775 worth of nitromethane gas—whatever that is—from an Ennis, Texas, racetrack. And another for ammonium nitrate from a farm co-op in McPherson, Kansas.
And then you see it: a handful of crystals lying in a baggie in the top dresser drawer. A stray meth pipe and brown paper bags. Numerous brown paper bags. Ghastly evidence.
Timothy McVeigh is gone, you think. Too far gone.
Descriere
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded just outside of Oklahoma City’s Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Within a matter of hours, the FBI launched the largest manhunt in U.S. history, identifying the suspects as Timothy James McVeigh and John Doe No. 2, a stocky twentysomething with a distinctive tattoo on his left arm. Eventually the FBI retracted the elusive mystery man as a bombing suspect altogether, proclaiming that McVeigh had acted alone and that John Doe No. 2 was the by-product of unreliable eyewitness testimony in the wake of the attack.
Womack recreates the events that led up to this fateful day from the perspective of John Doe No. 2—or JD, as he is referred to in the book. With his ironic and curiously detached persona, JD narrates—from a second-person point of view—his secret life with McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and others in America’s militia culture as McVeigh and JD crisscross the Midwest in McVeigh’s beloved Chevy Geo Spectrum.
John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel is the tragicomic account of McVeigh’s last desperate months of freedom, as he prepared to unleash one ofthe deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in the nation’s history. Womack’s novel traces one man’s downward spiral toward the act of evil that will brand his name in infamy and another’s desperate hope to save his friend’s soul before it’s too late.
Premii
- IndieFab awards Bronze Medal Winner, 2010