SKYJACK: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper Review

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SKYJACK: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper ReviewI've always been fascinated by the D.B. Cooper story. I'm not sure why since I wasn't even born when he hijacked a Boeing 737 in the fall of 1971, then disappeared into the Washington wilderness. There's just something incredibly compelling about the whole story. It's so compelling, I couldn't put Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper down. It arrived at 10:00am and, by 11:00pm the same day, I'd finished it.
Geoffrey Gray presents what can best be called the human side of the D.B. Cooper mystery. He's done incredible research into the lives of not only the likely suspects (he focuses on Kenneth Christiansen, Duane Weber, Richard McCoy, and Barbara (Bobby) Dayton), but also the pilots, flight attendants, FBI agents, and amateur sleuths involved with the case. The extent that the D.B. Cooper saga has impacted (and ruined) lives is simply incredible.
Gray also doesn't shy away from hard evidence and facts. He pursues and discusses countless leads, no matter how flimsy. He partnered with scientists, private investigators, experts of all kinds, FBI agents, and even the online community. He combined this information with new access to FBI files and other documents to provide the most up to date information about Cooper's motives, his possible identity, and where he may have ended up. He has a list of sources/references at the end of the book for those who may want to dig deeper.
In the end, however, the book is filled with a lot of "he might be or he might not be" with regard to Cooper's ultimate identity. Readers wanting a foregone conclusion should look elsewhere, but for those who want to decide for themselves based on the best information (count me in this category), Gray has done a fantastic job.
For a casual D.B. Cooper fan like myself, Skyjack was a treasure trove of new information. While there's no "smoking gun" fingering someone as a likely suspect, Gray does provide, based on scientific experiments, solid evidence that Cooper survived the jump, at least initially. He also relates some fascinating information linking Cooper to a clandestine government operation. Gray even hints that Duane Weber, with his connections to the CIA, James Earl Ray, and possibly even fellow suspect Richard McCoy, could be Dan Cooper.
Overall, I highly recommend Skyjack to anyone interested in D.B. Cooper, unsolved mysteries, or just history in general. Cooper engineered the perfect crime and stuck it to "the man," making him a folk hero to many. Although Gray can't tell us who he was with certainty (maybe no one can), he does a great job of capturing the mystery and the absurdity of D.B. Cooper, the man and, perhaps most importantly, the myth.SKYJACK: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper Overview

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