John Godey’s best-selling novel, The Taking of Pelham 123, revolves around a quartet of armed crooks who hijack a New York City subway train and threaten to start killing passengers one-by-one if their ransom demands are not met in an hour.
In the midst of a recession and with loads of empty hotel rooms, South Carolina's vacation hot spot is hanging a "No Vacancy" sign for hundreds of thousands of motorcycle riders who have come here each May.
