About the Author
Victor F. Bongiorno is an air charter operator with considerable local knowledge of the Bass Strait corridor -- the same stretch of sky Frederick Valentich crossed on the night he disappeared.
Drawing on his own flying experience and years of familiarity with the region's conditions, routes, and radio traffic, Bongiorno revisits the Valentich case forty-seven years on. Double Dark is the result: a close analysis of the circumstances and witness testimonies that official investigators failed to examine at the time, and have continued to dismiss ever since.
Why This Book
Most accounts of the Valentich disappearance are written from the outside -- by journalists, ufologists, or armchair investigators. Bongiorno's perspective is different: he has flown the same corridor, dealt with the same conditions, and understands the aviation detail that other retellings gloss over.
That vantage point is what makes Double Dark a genuinely fresh re-investigation of Australia's most famous unsolved aviation mystery.
