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　　“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.”

That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered

passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of

one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American

true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then

parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into

oblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of legend and

obsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy to

suicidal despair. Now with Skyjack, journalist Geoffrey Gray delves

into this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamous

case.

Starting with a tip from a private investigator into a promising

suspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trained

paratrooper), Gray is propelled into the murky depths of a

decades-old mystery, conducting new interviews and obtaining a

first-ever look at Cooper’s FBI file. Beginning with a

heartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself,

from cabin to cockpit to tower, and uncanny portraits of characters

who either chased Cooper or might have committed the crime,

including Ralph Himmelsbach, the most dogged of FBI agents, who

watched with horror as a criminal became a counter-culture folk

hero who supposedly shafted the system…Karl Fleming, a respected

reporter whose career was destroyed by a Cooper scoop that was a

scam…and Barbara (nee Bobby) Dayton, a transgendered pilot who

insisted she was Cooper herself.

With explosive new information and exclusive access to FBI files

and forensic evidence, Skyjack reopens one of the great cold cases

of the 20th century.

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　　GEOFFREY GRAY writes about crime, politics,

sports, travel and food. He is a contributing editor at New

York Magazine, covered boxing for The New York Times and

for programs like This American Life, writes for other

newspapers and magazines, and once drove an ice-cream truck.

SKYJACK is his first book.

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　　“Out of the wild blue yonder comes this pleasing tale of

obsession and mystery. Geoffrey Gray has essentially parachuted

into the early 1970s and found a nearly forgotten episode that

elucidates a swath of our cultural history. The result is a clean,

smart whodunit full of quirky characters, imaginative sleuthing,

and thrilling surprises.”

　　—Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound on His Trail

　　“Here is writing and storytelling that is vivid and fresh—a

delectable adventure from a talented new author.”

　　—Gay Talese

　　“With verve and assurance worthy of his protagonist, Geoffrey

Gray pulls readers along on a kaleidoscopic chase through the cult

of Cooper. Both a masterful re-creation of the paranoid 1970s, and

an exhilarating firsthand account of an erosive obsession, Skyjack

takes us down the rabbit hole with Gray—and what a journey it

is.”

　　—James  Swanson, author of Manhunt and Bloody Crimes

　　“Who was D.B. Cooper? In SKYJACK, Geoffrey Gray lures in the

reader with this iconic unsolved mystery, and for the next 290

pages explores a story as attention-grabbing as a bag of hot money.

D.B. Cooper emerges as the great McGuffin of 1970s America, a prism

through which Gray exploits to the fullest with his propulsive

writing style, mad commitment to detail, and explores everything

from the early years of gender reassignment surgery to the birth of

airline security culture to the ghostly legends of the Pacific

Northwest's Dark Divide.”

　　—Evan Wright, New York Times bestselling author of Generation

Kill

　　“SKYJACK tells the legendary story of D.B. Cooper in a way that’s

as inventive and as engaging as the subject itself. Only a writer

as talented as Geoffrey Gray could knit together the many strands

of this mystery and the extraordinary characters who have

dedicated, and in some cases destroyed, their lives in pursuit of

the truth. Just as Gray finds himself sucked into the tale, readers

will leap into the void alongside him, landing on their feet and

smiling at the shared adventure.”

　　—Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of

Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of

World War II

　　“Easily one of the most delightful books I’ve read in a long,

long time. In his obsessive search for answers in the legendary

case, Gray becomes a little unhinged himself as well as

encountering an array of characters I haven’t seen the likes of

since Mark Twain sent Huck down the Mississippi. His style fits the

case, and Gray can be compared with Tom Wolfe and Evelyn Waugh in

his talent for unearthing the eccentrics of the world and the

bizarreness of life.”

　　—John Bowers, Associate Professor of Writing, Columbia

University, author of The Colony and Love in Tennessee

　　“…An exciting journey into the byways of popular culture. This is

hardly the first book about Cooper, but it may be the first to

treat his story for what it has become: an ongoing phenomenon, like

the search for Bigfoot, with a remarkable ability to consume the

imaginations and lives of generations of searchers.”

　　—Booklist, Starred

　　“Gray organizes this, his first book, like a Tarantino film,

cutting chronology into strips, then reassembling them in a

sequence that readers may consider (pick one) eccentric, confusing,

artistic, random, maddening, fun, revelatory. It's all of the

above.”--Cleveland Plain Dealer

书籍介绍

“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.”

That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of legend and obsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now with Skyjack , journalist Geoffrey Gray delves into this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamous case.

Starting with a tip from a private investigator into a promising suspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trained paratrooper), Gray is propelled into the murky depths of a decades-old mystery, conducting new interviews and obtaining a first-ever look at Cooper’s FBI file. Beginning with a heartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself, from cabin to cockpit to tower, and uncanny portraits of characters who either chased Cooper or might have committed the crime, including Ralph Himmelsbach, the most dogged of FBI agents, who watched with horror as a criminal became a counter-culture folk hero who supposedly shafted the system…Karl Fleming, a respected reporter whose career was destroyed by a Cooper scoop that was a scam…and Barbara (nee Bobby) Dayton, a transgendered pilot who insisted she was Cooper herself.

With explosive new information and exclusive access to FBI files and forensic evidence, Skyjack reopens one of the great cold cases of the 20th century.