Initially a straightforward investigation into the identity of “D.B. Cooper”—the anonymous perpetrator of the only unsolved American airline hijacking—Geoffrey Gray’s Skyjack follows a pattern similar to David Fincher’s Zodiac, as a crime with major iconic significance continues to linger unsolved, deranging everyone who tries to crack it. While many books have been published about the case, they’ve mostly been written by people trying to prove that one suspect or another was the real criminal. Gray instead pursues all the threads and comes up short.
