There are men who shape history from the front pages, and there are men who shape it from behind closed doors, through numbered bank accounts and whispered introductions. François Genoud was the latter kind—a Swiss financier whose life threaded through the darkest corridors of the twentieth century, from the inner circles of the Third Reich…
On the morning of September 6, 1970, four teams of operatives from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine boarded commercial airliners in Frankfurt, Zurich, Amsterdam, and Brussels. By nightfall, three hijacked aircraft sat in the Jordanian desert at a disused Royal Air Force airstrip called Dawson's Field. The PFLP renamed it Revolution Airport.…

