Brendan I. Koerner

Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of the book The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking.

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  1. A Kidnapping Gone Very Wrong

    In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.

    collage of illustrations: woman alone; stacks of cash; truck with birds on wire; sketches of men; Nixon
    Leonardo Santamaria