After the First Death
In Robert Cormier's After the First Death, the accounts of a terrorist hijacking are presented within a well developed plot. The fictional tale begins as a group of foreign "freedom fighters" takeover a camp school bus filled with young children. These hijackers had usually worked in quick bombing demonstrations, but in this operation the plans are switched around. The four terrorists used doped candy to keep the children quiet and forced Kate, the driver, onto a bridge to wait for the CIA to complete demands. The demands were for the release of fifteen political prisoners, ten million dollars, and the disassembly of a secret government organization known as Inner Delta. In order to preserve their own safety, the hijackers had declared that if any of their own were killed then one kidnapped child would be shot. One of the authorities of Inner Delta, General Mark Marchand, used his son Ben as a messenger between the terrorists and the government. Ben had......
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