Drawn from newly unclassified documents and interviews, a meticulously researched account details the daring and valor of the men who attempted to rescue Bat 21 Bravo--Lt, Col. Iceal 'Gene' Hambleton--during the Vietnam war. Reprint.

“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.”  That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of legend and obsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now with SKYJACK, journalist Geoffrey Gray delves into this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamous case. Starting with a tip from a private investigator into a promising suspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trained paratrooper), Gray is propelled into the murky depths of a decades-old mystery, conducting new interviews and obtaining a first-ever look at Cooper’s FBI file. Beginning with a heartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself, from cabin to cockpit to tower, and uncanny portraits of characters who either chased Cooper or might have committed the crime, including Ralph Himmelsbach, the most dogged of FBI agents, who watched with horror as a criminal became a counter-culture folk hero who supposedly shafted the system…Karl Fleming, a respected reporter whose career was destroyed by a Cooper scoop that was a scam…and Barbara (nee Bobby) Dayton, a transgendered pilot who insisted she was Cooper herself. With explosive new information and exclusive access to FBI files and forensic evidence, SKYJACK reopens one of the great cold cases of the 20th century.

An account of Flight 93's heroic final moments describes phone calls between passengers and their loved ones, their decision to fight the hijackers, and their heroic sacrifices to prevent a greater tragedy.

An updated edition of the heralded account about September 11's lesser-known aspects features coverage of such new findings as the multiple explosions that occurred in the towers before and during their collapses, seismic disturbances that preceded each plane crash, and disturbing revelations about Flight 77's impact at the Pentagon. Original.

Considers such topics as the U.S. government's failure to heed urgent intelligence warnings about impending attacks, the unavailability of seized evidence to the public, and the ways in which September 11 enabled the Bush administration to implement significant foreign policy changes. Original.

Product Description: In the tradition of Ron Kovic "Born on the Fourth of July", Helmey saga epitomizes the heartbreaking conflict that characterized the Vietnam War years, as he recounts the story of hijacking a commercial 727 and forcing its pilot to fly to Cuba, as part of his mission to "get" Fidel Castro...read more

Recounts the story of the mid-air heroics of three courageous pilots who stopped a deranged man's attempt to hijack their Federal Express plane

Tells how three wounded men at the helm of a Federal Express airplane thwarted the attempt of a disgruntled employee to hijack the DC-10 and crash it into the company's building in Memphis, where thousands were inside. Reprint. AB.

A member of the Black Panther Party describes his youth in Oakland, the rise of his political awareness, his 1969 hijacking of a TWA jet to Cuba, his incarceration there, and his experiences and new life in Castro's Cuba. 12,500 first printing.

The hijacker of an airplane to Cuba depicts his struggle to endure the harsh conditions of life in a Cuban prison