Mike Thexton
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Mike Thexton

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I have always loved listening to stories, reading stories, making up stories. For me, the best ones come with a map – a new world to get lost in. I started writing when I couldn’t find the exact book I wanted to read to my daughter Zoe – an extended tale in an imaginary place and time, about people who have to deal with real world problems in a real world way. I’ve nothing against magic, but I wanted my characters to manage without it. I gave a few pages to Zoe, who half an hour later asked, ‘Is there any more of this?’ And so it began... Along the way, I took time out to write ‘What happened to the Hippy Man?’, a true account of the hijacking of PA073 on 5 September 1986 in Karachi, Pakistan. I was returning from an expedition in memory of my brother Pete, who died in northern Pakistan in 1983. I boarded the plane just before it was taken over by armed terrorists, who held some 380 people hostage for the day. They collected passports, looking for an American. The brave and resourceful flight attendant, Sunshine, hid all Americans with white faces and western names: the hijacker believed the US nationals were all Indians and Pakistanis. So he picked a British passport instead – mine. I spent the day at the front of the plane, waiting for the authorities to refuse a demand. In the end, as the generator failed and the plane went into darkness, they put me back with the rest – before throwing hand grenades and spraying automatic fire from their Kalashnikovs. Twenty died and a hundred were wounded, but I jumped off the wing and ran away to tell the tale.
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