In 1971 a man with a briefcase hijacked a Northwest Orient 727 flight. He ransomed the passengers for $200,000 and then jumped out of the plane. He has never been heard from since, leaving the end of his story open for everyone to write their own ending. Geoffrey Gray tells the story of D. B. Cooper, including every bit of minutia, every theory, and every crackpot who has claimed to be Dan Cooper since 1971. Geoffrey Gray also reads the audio book and he can’t help but ham it up every once in a while. There is also the occasional…
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The Informant
Matt Damon plays the part of a slightly insane fellow who works for ADM and decides it would be a good idea to become a Government Informant. Well, actually, he thinks it’s not that great an idea, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Mark Whitacre can’t help himself. He thinks of he is the man in the white hat, as the hero in his own story, as a man doing the right thing. The only problem is that he is a lair and a thief. This tends to make his usefulness as a whistleblower a bit…