what happened to the hippy man?

Mike Thexton

KARACHI, PAKISTAN, 5 September 1986
Four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists storm a Pan Am jumbo jet as the passengers embark. The pilots escape, the terrorists shoot a passenger and throw his body out of the plane. They collect in passports and call Michael John Thexton to the front of the plane as the next hostage to die. A bearded, ragged figure rises from a seat and goes forward. A little Indian girl sees him go, and asks her parents for months afterwards,
‘What happened to the hippy man?’

In the first edition of this book there were 32 pages of colour pictures. All the photographs from the first edition are included in this website, arranged to match the chapters in the text, together with a few more - there is more space in a website.