Unforgiven

About the Book

The Eve of Thanksgiving, 1971 a plane was hijacked out of the state of Washington.  The supposed D.B.Cooper parachuted out with a satchel containing $ 200,000.00.  After landing in a tree and nearly dying, he was rescued by Walter Grambow, a forest surveyor.  It was touch and go for a while for the FBI, Colonel Kirchner, was hot on the trail of this hijacker.  Walt not only nursed him back to health but also found him a job aboard a fishing vessel, and gave him a new name, Mike Olsen.  Two years later Walt and his cousin, the skipper of the fishing boat, wanted D.B. Cooper (Alias, Mike Olsen) to assume the second mate position.  Mike Olsen declined and skipped out when his only obligation was to return the hijacked money.

Mike goes to San Diego and hires out, on another fishing boat.  While aboard he becomes acquainted with the owner, Claude Cartwright.  Sometime later when the skipper of this boat wanted Mike to assume the second mate’s position, Mike again skips out.

Mike Olsen then goes to Yuma, Arizona and gets interested in a young lady, Susan Thatcher, a real estate agent.  Sue is ready to show Mike a resort at Martinez Lake that is for sale.  When the two appear at the resort for a showing, who just bought it but Claude Cartwright.  After some moments of conceding to Cartwright, Mike goes to work for Claude Cartwright as the manager of the resort.

All of these years Mike has never spent any of the money from the hijacking.  Except, he did change some of the bills creating the FBI to investigate these mysterious emerging bills from the hijacking of 1971.  Sue and Mike make wedding plans.  Sue wants her brother to give her away at the wedding.  Sue and Mike pick up Sue's brother at the airport.  Her brother turns out to be Walter Grambow.  Walt insists that in order for Mike Olsen (D.B.Cooper) to marry his sister he first must return the ill-gotten money from the hijacking.  Mike is on the verge of returning the money but before he does, he confesses who he really is to Sue.  Sue tells Mike that if Walt will not forgive him, she will not either.  Sue gets exasperated and orders Mike out of her house. Mike skips out with the money.

Mike gets as far as Houston, Texas, when he has repercussions of running out on Claude Cartwright.  While calling Cartwright, Mike’s car is broken into by an unemployed man, and the hijacked money taken.  Cartwright agrees to talk to Mike, being he is due in Houston anyway for another problem.  On arriving at the Houston airport, Mike tells all to Cartwright, including his loss of the money.

Cartwright is trying to show Mike that stealing is unsatisfactory.  Cartwright hires Mike to do some sleuthing for him to expose a manager who is stealing from Cartwright.  Mike flies to the East Coast and uncovers evidence to expose this manager of the chicken farm.  In the mean time Cartwright gets in touch with Sue Thatcher and hires her also to help him expose these thieves.  He sends her to Atlanta, Georgia where Mike is and the two get conciliated.  Sue calls her brother, Walt and explains to him about the money taken from Mike.  However Walt is still not in a forgiven mood, even if the money was stolen from Mike.

John Adams, the unemployed refinery worker, broke into Mike’s trunk and stole the hijacked money.  With all of that cash, he spent some of it on a new car.  After much turmoil the FBI, Colonel Kirchner, arrested John Adams and his new wife in California.  John admitted stealing the money out of a car in Houston but nothing else.  After much questioning Colonel Kirchner, turned John Adams over to the civil authorities then deci?? ?? ??????????????????? ??????? ?? ???????? ????? ??? ??????? ??????? ???? ??? ???? ?? ???? ??? ????  ???? ?????? ?? ???? ????? ???? ??? ???? ??? ????????  ???? ????? ????? ???????

About the Author

Eugene R. Collier started writing daily reports when he first went to work as an Electrical Engineer. As time passed he grew interested in writing, also in history. After retirement he started his writing career with a combination of historical fiction with a little humor thrown in.