{"product_id":"skyjack-book-geoffrey-gray-9780307451293","title":"Skyjack","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELER - The true, unsolved story of D. B. Cooper's 1971 airplane hijacking, one of the greatest cold cases of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHere is writing and storytelling that is vivid and fresh--a delectable adventure.--Gay Talese\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat was the note handed to flight attendant Florence Schaffner by a mild-mannered passenger now known as D. B. Cooper on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was also the start of one of the most astonishing aviation whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline before parachuting into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, never to be seen again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe case of D. B. Cooper is a modern legend that has obsessed and cursed his pursuers for generations with everything from bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now, with \u003ci\u003eSkyjack\u003c\/i\u003e, Geoffrey Gray obtains a first-ever look at the FBI's confidential Cooper file, uncovering new leads in the infamous case. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStarting with a crack tip from a private investigator, Gray plunges into the murky depths of the decades-old mystery to chase down new clues and explore secrets of the case's most prominent suspects, including Ralph Himmelsbach, the most dogged of FBI agents, who watched with horror as a criminal became a counter-culture folk hero; Karl Fleming, a respected reporter whose career was destroyed by a D. B. Cooper scoop that was a scam; and Barbara Dayton, a transgender pilot who insisted she was Cooper herself. With explosive new information, \u003ci\u003eSkyjack \u003c\/i\u003ereopens one of the great cold cases of the twentieth century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577110470929,"sku":"GOR003811179","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49940458373393,"sku":"CIN0307451291G","price":5.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346889314577,"sku":"CIN0307451291A","price":5.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50761713123601,"sku":"CIN0307451291VG","price":6.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50896362602769,"sku":"GOR014111542","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307451291.jpg?v=1751324019","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/skyjack-book-geoffrey-gray-9780307451293","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}