| For the nearly 200 passengers and crew aboard Indian Airlines Flight IC 814 from Kathmandu to New Delhi, it was a trip to hell and black. In their eight days in captivity, they went through every emotion known to mankind. In their own way, so did their captors, the five masked men nicknamed Chief, Burger, Doctor, Shankar and Bhola. The book recreates and brings alive the drama, tension and horror of those 173 hours; it gives us a seat right in front of the action wherever it was - in Kathmandu, Amritsar, Dubai, Kandahar, the corridors of power in New Delhi and, of course, inside the plane. |
