SKYJACK: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper

by Geoffrey Gray

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307451291
• ISBN13: 9780307451293
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"