Brendan I. Koerner

The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (2013)

This fun and engaging book read like a beach-read novel -- that's a compliment. The stories of the early 1970s when hijacking was an almost weekly occurrence (really) are fascinating. I was a little too young to realize just how common and crazy the situation was. But the book recreates the tales...