About Hijack the Pearl
It was Stretch who suggested they should steal a small launch and sail it up to Cairns. Jazza reckoned that the idea wasn’t stupid; it was the size of the boat that was stupid. They were all bored, some in low-paying jobs, others unemployed. And so the subject was tossed around until these ten former serving members of the Australian Army decided to proceed with Jazza’s idle suggestion of hijacking a cruise ship for money, for ransom. The decision took them out into the waters of the South Pacific, to the hijacking of a cruise ship and its passengers. The taking of the Ocean Pearl should have been carried out without the shedding of blood, without the death and destruction which they had experienced in Afghanistan, in East Timor, in Iraq, and other places which would sometimes haunt them in the depths of night.
But once begun, once the Pearl had been taken, death and destruction followed as it had done in those other places.
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