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Skyjack

The Hunt for D. B. Cooper

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Skyjack

Von: Geoffrey Gray
Gesprochen von: Geoffrey Gray
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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true, unsolved story of D. B. Cooper’s 1971 airplane hijacking, one of the greatest cold cases of the twentieth century, by an author featured in D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!, now streaming on Netflix

“Here is writing and storytelling that is vivid and fresh—a delectable adventure.”—Gay Talese

“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.”

That 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.

The 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 Skyjack, Geoffrey Gray obtains a first-ever look at the FBI’s confidential Cooper file, uncovering new leads in the infamous case.

Starting 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, Skyjack reopens one of the great cold cases of the twentieth century. Neuere Popularkultur Sozialwissenschaften Trickbetrüger, Hoaxes & Betrugsfälle True Crime
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«It could mean that that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence.»

After finishing this great audiobook, I must admit I was a bit baffled by the negative reviews the book gets on amazon. Yes, it is a lot to take in, comprehend and compute. But what did some expect? The mystery is an enigma of massive proportions, so it is unsurprising that we will be confronted with lots of details, facts, tales, conflicting and overlapping info and such. True, the narrator could read the thing a bit slower and perhaps a bit with more range in regard to voices to help distinguish between characters. But the whole audiobook feels like a movie. He tells the story very vividly. Then there are those who are upset that they are not presented with a neat solution. But again, what did they expect? Part of the D.B. Cooper saga is, that we do not know. And let us be honest: we all knew that. We want this audiobook to be entertaining, we want to be kept in the suspense, not presented with a tidy-100% sure conclusion. This book provides enough that we each can pick our “own version” while knowing, that there are other interpretations. Yes, we need to be that flexible! And while that was ok back in 2009, it is sad to see that in this day and age, such an interpretational leap is almost unthinkable. Like Schrodinger’s cat, Cooper is both alive and dead. The only difference is… we cannot open the box to see which is true… And that is totally ok.

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