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D. B. Cooper (aka Dan Cooper) is an alias of an aircraft hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000, parachuted from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest of the United States somewhere over the Cascade Mountains, possibly over Woodland, Washington. He was never seen again, and only $5,880 of the ransom has been found. The skyjacking continues to have an impact on popular culture, including references to or inspiration by Cooper in books, film, and music.〔Neil Hickey, (''Plane robbing still unsolved'' ), The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Australia), January 4, 2008〕 ==Books== *James M. Cain's 1975 novel ''Rainbow's End'' is a fictional account of what might have happened to Cooper after he parachuted from the plane. *J.D. Reed's 1980 novel ''Free Fall'' was used as a basis for the 1981 film ''The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper''. *Elwood Reid's 2004 novel ''D.B.: a novel'' is a fictionalized account of what supposedly happened to the ''real'' Cooper in the years following the hijacking, as a pair of FBI agents attempt to pick up his trail and arrest him. In one edition, the book jacket cover featured artwork derived from the FBI composite sketch of the real Cooper. *The 1998 novel ''Sasquatch'' by Roland Smith features a character named Buckley Johnson, who eventually admits that he is D. B. Cooper to the novel's protagonist, a boy named Dylan Hickock. In this story, Johnson says he committed the hijacking to pay for cancer treatments for his son. *Greg Cox's novel, ''The 4400: The Vesuvius Prophecy'' features Cooper as one of The 4400. *''The Skyjacker's Guide, or Please Hold This Bomb While I Go to the Bathroom'', a humorous book inspired by the Cooper hijacking * In Stephen King's novella ''Rita Hayworth & Shawshank Redemption'', narrator Red says that Andy Dufresne (the inmate played by Tim Robbins in the later movie) jokingly theorized that D. B. Cooper was really one of the other convicts who had escaped from the prison. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「D. B. Cooper in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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