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Cooper’s Loot By Rick E. George

By Elaine Cockrell

Rick George taught English with me at Coweeman Middle School in Kelso, Wash., and now that he’s retired, he’s writing his way to fame and fortune. This is Rick’s second novel, a historical mystery about the infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper who parachuted out of a Boeing 727 in November 1971, with $200,000 in ransom money. Some of the money was found by a teenage boy along the Columbia River several years later, but the hijacking remains unsolved. Rick takes up the story in a Kelso bar when a man who says he’s a former buddy of Cooper’s recruits reporter Bev Wikowski and three others to hunt for the hidden fortune. A blizzard complicates the search, but they eventually locate the markers left by Cooper, start digging and find the cash. Now the mismatched group has to find shelter from the snow and freezing temperatures, and they take refuge in an abandoned log cabin. Each person begins to spend his or her share of the

Elaine Kurtz Cockrell taught Language Arts for Kelso Public Schools and later served as Principal of Huntington Middle School. Now retired, she is writing her own historical fiction novels, also hoping for fame and fortune...

money in their imaginations, only to realize it isn’t enough; tensions build. Bev initially wanted a scoop for her newspaper, but when people begin dying, she just wants to survive.

Rick never disappoints with the twists and turns in the story. At one point my heart was beating so hard, I had to put the book down and take a deep breath before continuing. If you like a good yarn with a strong female character, Cooper’s Loot is for you. Just keep a light on and your back to the wall.

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