November 24, 1971 - A man using the assumed name of 'Dan Cooper' leaped from the aft stairwell of a Boeing 727 jetliner after demanding four parachutes and $200,000 in cash. He was never seen again, and four decades later, he has never been identified - until now. Kenneth Peter Christiansen, a former World War II paratrooper and later a purser for Northwest Airlines, was the man who pulled off one of the boldest unsolved crimes in history. Skipp Porteous of Sherlock Investigations, New York, and Robert Blevins of Adventure Books of Seattle present the case that Christiansen and Cooper were one and the same. This specially revised edition of the book takes into account new information discovered about Christiansen since the original release. Additional photos, new witness testimony, and a chapter on how the History Channel became involved have been added. Blevins and Porteous show how Christiansen planned the hijacking of NWA Flight 305, what motivated him to do it, who helped him on the ground, and what he did with the money afterward. More than forty pictures, many of them new, as well as interviews with the witnesses, reveals the truth at last. Into The Blast was the subject of a recent episode on the History Channel show Brad Meltzer's Decoded.
Robert M. Blevins is from the Puget Sound area of Washington State, USA. He is a typical Northwest guy who goes camping and fishing a lot, when he isn't working. Author of the sci-fi novels 'Say Goodbye To The Sun,' 'The Corona Incident,' 'The 13th Day of Christmas,' and other works.
His famous 'AB of Seattle' column for Newsvine, 'adventurebooksDOTnewsvineDOTcom' has been visited more than two million times since March of 2007, and contains nearly 500 illustrated articles.
Each year during the second weekend of August, Mr Blevins hosts 'Adventures in Literature' at the Auburn Avenue Theatre in his hometown of Auburn, Washington.
He has appeared on television in shows such as 'Brad Meltzer's Decoded' (DB Cooper episode) and on Comcast Cable's 'Adrenaline Hunter'.
