""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 alongsidep

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. "From the Hardcover edition."