John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel (Switchgrass Books) - Softcover

Womack, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875806406 ISBN 13: 9780875806402

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

A fictional account from John Doe No. 2 of the events that led up to the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building

About the Author:

Kenneth Womack is the author of four novels, John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel, The Restaurant at the End of the World, Playing the Angel, and I Am Lemonade Lucy. He has written several books about the Beatles, including Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four, and, most recently, an acclaimed two-volume biography about the life of Beatles producer George Martin. He is Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as Professor of English.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0875806406
• ISBN 13: 9780875806402
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236