Burl Barer

The true-crime story of one man's life after his faked death, by the New York Times, bestselling author, of Murder in the Family. 1982: Oregon businessman, Phil Champagne, age 52, dies in a tragic boating accident off Lopez Island off the coast of Washington state. He is survived by one ex-wife, four adult children, an octogenarian mother, and two despondent brothers. Phil didn't know he was dead, until he read it in the paper. All things considered,...