I await the arrival of two books. One by D.B. Cooper the other by Frank Morris.
D. B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 passenger plane in 1971 and with 21 pounds of extorted $200,000 parachuted out at night into the wilderness of Washington State. Never found, he would be over 60 years old by now.
Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz prison in 1962 with two other men. Morris was the brains and would be roughly 70 years old by now.
Neither Cooper nor Morris has ever been heard from. A book by either man would have to be judged on its literary merits because authentication would be difficult.
I recommend that...
I recommend that the author of the D. B. Cooper book read two novels in preparation for writing his biography: Heart of Darkness and every book by Tom Wolfe. Heart of Darkness creates literary power by having the basic story told to a man who tells the story to another man who is the author. Use that literary vehicle. The final writer can be a publisher.
Tom Wolfe writes in a style that forces the reader to turn the next page. Copy those techniques. I would even go further. I suggest you immerse yourself in the characters and environments of Wolfe’s many books and narrate a story for each era that Wolfe covers, with your own character. Your character should be humble, sexually curious, wise and adventurous.
You can have roughly six adventurers in the book, each occurring in different eras and locales. You can be a social critic in each environment; feel free. You need a little hardship and tragedy. You can have seriously hurt you leg in the parachute jump. You can be married twice and have lost a child from the first marriage as a cause of the marriage dissolution. You never need to mention the money but should show by your circumstances that you could always handle money comfortably. By the end of the book you need to offer a mild apology for any harm you caused including to the family that never heard from you again.
For Frank Morris the writing must be different. You must explain what you did to turn your life around and avoid crime. That should include a stint in education with appropriate stories, including some humor. Your style can be a combination of the language and style of Ernest Hemingway and very long sentences like Faulkner in Pylon. Your story should have several long periods alone and lonely. Women should play a minor role. The 1990s could be your period of finding a second new life. Your character should be impatient, traveling extensively and built on close friendships with several obsequious men. It's a buddy story. The last chapter should describe a period of satisfaction, resolution and comfort but should end with a rather sad note of discouragement.
Get those books written and on the book racks. I’ll buy them.