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.
General
Imprint: |
Northern Illinois University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Switchgrass Books |
Release date: |
October 2010 |
First published: |
2010 |
Authors: |
Kenneth Womack
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade / Trade
|
Pages: |
236 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-87580-640-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Books >
Fiction >
Promotions
|
LSN: |
0-87580-640-6 |
Barcode: |
9780875806402 |
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