![]() ![]() The long, enthralling and bizarre tale of what Roger and Cathy did that day and what happened to them as a result forms the centrepiece of Brendan I Koerner's The Skies Belong to Us. But after a great deal of thought, a lot of powerful marijuana and extensive consultation of a book on popular astrology, Holder decided that the couple's destiny lay in North Africa. Then, by some unexplained means which apparently made sense at the time, they would end up contentedly sheep farming in the Australian Outback. The couple had originally planned to fly to Hanoi as a gesture of solidarity to North Vietnam. It wasn't a scheduled destination, but Holder convinced the pilots that a change of course was in order by claiming his attaché case contained a bomb and that he had henchmen on the plane eager to detonate it. Cathy Kerkow was an intelligent but aimless young woman adrift in San Diego's bohemian demi-monde. Roger Holder was a former soldier, traumatised by what he'd seen and done in Vietnam. ![]()
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