On the morning of 16 March, 1978, Italian politician Aldo Moro and five bodyguards made their way slowly through the rush hour traffic in Rome. Suddenly Red Brigade gunmen opened fire on the convoy killing the five man protection squad. They calmly bundled Moro into a getaway car and vanished into the streets of Rome. Read about Aldo Moro's horrific capture in Hostages and Hijackers along with the harrowing stories of many more real-life abductions ... and their gruesome outcomes.

Contents:
The Dawson's Field Hijackings, The October Crisis of 1970, The Munich Olympic Hostage Crisis, Patty Hearst, Tiede Herrema, The Dutch Train Hostage Crisis 1975, The Hijacking of Air France 139, Aldo Moro, The Iranian Embassy Siege, The Iranian Hostage Crisis 1979-81, William Buckley, Terry Anderson, Terry Waite, Air France Flight 93, Ingrid Betancourt, The Nord-Ost Theater Siege, The Beslan Hostage Crisis, Margaret Hassan, Kenneth Bigley, Alan Johnston