Publisher's Synopsis
Born in 1936, Herbert Swire, known to most as Jim Swire, led a quiet life as a doctor in England, unaware that his world would be forever altered by tragedy. The event that changed the course of his life occurred on December 20, 1988, when his 23-year-old daughter, Flora, boarded Pan Am Flight 103. Flora, who had been looking forward to spending Christmas with her American boyfriend, never made it to the United States. The plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 270 people aboard, including 11 on the ground. In the aftermath, Jim Swire's life was irrevocably linked to the bombing, as his daughter's death sparked a relentless campaign for justice.
The investigation into the bombing soon pointed to two Libyan nationals, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, and Jim Swire found himself at the center of a growing movement for the victims' families. Swire became the spokesman for UK Families Flight 103, a group of relatives of those who died in the bombing. But his grief didn't only lead him to seek justice for his daughter-it also led him to take dramatic actions to highlight the failings of the security measures that allowed the attack to happen.
