Roland Smith

Hijack over Weaver's Needle Roland Smith

Security at airports around the world has been greatly tightened since 9/11 and Homeland Security continues to try and plug any remaining gaps in the USA, especially for airport and airline employees. Yet the FBI has recently closed the 45 year-old file on the infamous, and still unsolved D B Cooper hijacking. Even with the current high level of security, could a motivated airline employee, highly trained, armed with insider knowledge and virtually unlimited access to his company's planes repeat Cooper's feat? Hijack Over Weaver's Needle is a fictional story of such a man. Jack Traner is a senior engineer at TriCon Airlines whose comfortable life is turned upside down by tragedy and TriCon's self-serving management who try to make him the scapegoat for several costly and deadly mistakes affecting the passengers and employees of TriCon. Bitter, angry and grieving, Jack makes a plan to get revenge.