A film adaptation, directed by Sam Raimi, was released in 1998; according to the Times review, the novel is so dark that the story was adjusted to soften the ending.

If there is any mention of the missing money, he will burn it; otherwise, after six months, they will split it equally and separately leave town.

The following day, at Sarah's suggestion, Hank and Jacob return to the plane and plant five hundred thousand dollars in the cockpit.

A curious neighbor - Pederson - sees the tracks in the snow and Jacob, in a panic, hits and apparently kills the man.

Hank stages the deaths as a domestic dispute, murdering a man next door - the landlord Sonny - in the process.

When both the town sheriff and the remaining kidnapper are killed in the search for the plane, Sarah believes that they finally are home free.

A few weeks after the birth, their daughter nearly drowns in a wading pool and suffers permanent brain damage.

"[2] The Chicago Tribune described the book as "a tragic journey as compelling, resolute and relentlessly grim as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.