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This week marks the 40th anniversary of D.B. Cooper's infamous "skyjacking" of a Northwest Airlines jet for $200,000--and Cooper's no-less-infamous vanishing act in the wake of the caper.

Every few years a new lead in the case emerges, only to disappear into legend like Cooper himself. Pacific Northwest author Matt Love recently created a new ripple in the seemingly endless cache of fascinating Cooper trivia. Love has unearthed a rare book from an Oregon publisher that claims to be the memoir of Cooper himself:

In 1983, a publisher from Jefferson called Signum Books Ltd. released a 330-page book titled "HA-HA-HA." The cover features a drawing of a man in a suit holding a briefcase while parachuting from a commercial jetliner. The back cover features a graphic of a certificate announcing a contest called "Your Big Score." The certificate's first sentence reads: "It's true. In this book are seven clues. By reading it carefully and discovering the clues, one could receive as much as $200,000 in twenty dollar bills." The book's author is D.B. Cooper.

I have always been fascinated by this case, but I have never heard of this book!

I am 85% convinced he is dead, but it seems like there is just enough evidence to make me wonder . . .

The most believable of the survival storylines that I have read had him dying of natural causes a few years back.

I should have said, I am 85% that the dive killed him.

The one episode of Decoded that was dedicated to him makes a pretty damn good case for who D.B. Cooper really was. Their best guess was an employee of an airline, but the guy died a while before it. I can't recall his name, but it made perfect sense.