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Dead Man's Plan, August 2009
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Dead Man's Plan
Lee A. Eide

Xlibris Corporation
August 2009
On Sale: August 8, 2009
ISBN: 1441523219
EAN: 9781441523211
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DEAD MAN'S PLAN is a story for those of us who dream of freedom while living out our endless days in sunless cubicles, trapped inside the oppressive barbed wire cocoon of corporate America. On one such endless day, Lee Wyatt decides to make a break for it. Which is why he suddenly ups and drops his two-timing wife, ungrateful cat, and boring job in a Twin Cities bank. Lee does what many of us today lack the courage to do—he hits the road in his broken down old heap, armed with only a strong sense of determination, four beers, and a bicycle. He makes it as far as Dying Tree, South Dakota (a two-bit podunk berg) and from there the fun begins as Lee, freed from the 9 to 5 drudge of his former existence, begins to discover for himself what life's all about. The local yokels are interesting and friendly. It's the sort of place you can hang out, drink beer, shoot pool with Gomer Pyle archetypes and explore a few far-flung peyote-assisted spiritual frontiers with Native American women.

Lee is looking for something more out of life, and he soon finds that life is looking for something more out of him as well. As he begins to dream for the first time of things heavenly and hellish, a new freedom captivates his soul—and just as he starts to flap his wings a bit, he discovers his paradise found is about to be lost. The town of Lee's rebirth is scheduled to be ripped apart by one of its native sons—Ricky Mann, a former hick turned famous actor who made it big in Hollywood and is back home to tear down the place and build in its stead a hideous entertainment complex, replete with slot machines, garish theatrical venues featuring washed up crooners, and plenty of Branson-ish extra-long parking spaces for the bluehairs in their motor homes. When fledgling spiritualist Lee sets himself and his newfound cosmic- consciousness against the powerful Hollywood icon and greed-o-maniac Ricky Mann, something has got to give. What follows is a modern day High Noon, acted out in places both high and low on numerous earthly and spiritual planes.

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Re: Dead Man's Plan

This review is from my cousin Jennifer Eide, who lives in Williston, ND. Her email address is [email protected] (I think - ifit doesn'ts work, let me know and I will double check):

The ending left me with a good feeling…I went to sleep with a smile on my face and a vision of the dog and Soaring Eagle playing in the sun...It was a good read, different than any other story I’ve read but good…The ego maniac villain was a killer-good character. I give Ricky Mann an 8 out of 10. Murderers are a 10…The hero, Lee Wyatt, wasn’t perfect but he tried to improve himself, his life, and he cared about others…He gets a 9 out of 10 (saints are a 10). I could relate to him in his quest for improvement…Loved Soaring Eagle as a supporting character.

The writing style definitely contributed to the flow of the story. My favorite line was the one about looking into Soaring Eagle’s mind and seeing her thoughts running around in their underwear.
(Lee Eide 3:28pm January 4, 2010)