The Jump
The Hunt
The Curse
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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.
“Gray dives into the world of online sleuths, speculators, and
zealots as if he were Hunter S. Thompson hitting the road with the
Hell’s Angels. . . . One thing Skyjack makes entertainingly clear
is that it’s a weird, weird world.”—Washington Post
“Skyjack will take you on an engaging discovery.”—Chicago
Sun-Times
“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
“Fascinating. . . . [A] rollicking reading
experience.”—Oregonian
“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
“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
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