The Inside Man

by George Harmon Coxe

Book Overview

A novel about a skyjacking that parallels the D.B. Cooper incident. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B002JO11XA
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: NY
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fun Reading

George Harmon Coxe's "The Inside Man" isn't a great detective story or a great adventure novel, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The year is 1974. A hijacker seizes an aircraft, demands and gets $450,000 ransom, and bails out (ala D B Cooper) with the loot off the coast of Belize. A group of characters converges on Belize: two FBI agents who want the hijacker, a young lawyer and a sleazy PI sent by the airline who want to retrieve the ransom money, the hijacker's ex-wife who wants her share of the loot. This cast is augmented by local Belize police, fishermen, ex-patriot artists and businessmen, and a delightful taxi driver. Plot is fast-paced. Characters are colorful. Action scenes are good. One nice touch - the FBI agents, while stereotypically arrogant, are quite competent.