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Siege

Siege

The powerful and uncompromising story of what happened inside the Lindt Cafe and why the police response went so tragically wrong

by Deborah Snow
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/09/2019
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Hurtling towards its inevitable and tragic conclusion, Deborah Snow draws us into a vortex of police missteps, extraordinary bravery and profound grief to reveal what happened during that awful day.

On 15 December 2014, just ten days before Christmas, the unthinkable happened. A terrorist attack on Australian soil. For seventeen hours Islamic State-inspired gunman Man Haron Monis held his captives in a terrifying drama that paralysed Sydney and kept a nation glued to its television screens. Two hostages were killed and three seriously wounded. The others would have their lives changed for ever.

Despite the police leadership declaring it was well prepared for a terrorist attack, many shortcomings on the night revealed a response that fell seriously short of that promise. Deborah Snow lays bare what happened behind the scenes in the cafe as the hostages tried to keep themselves alive while waiting for a police response that didn't come. She also takes us into the police command posts as communications, equipment and decision-making structures broke down.

ISBN:
9781760876258
9781760876258
Category:
Terrorist attack
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-09-2019
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
328
Dimensions (mm):
198x128mm
Weight:
0.3kg

"Deborah Snow has written a tense and compelling narrative that both captures the human drama of the siege and interrogates the organisational failures that led to its tragic conclusion."
Sydney Morning Herald

"Compelling..."
The Weekend Australian

Deborah Snow

Deborah Snow is an award-winning senior reporter for Fairfax Media.

A journalist of four decades' standing she has previously worked in the Canberra Press Gallery, been as a reporter on Four Corners and the ABC's London and Moscow correspondent. This is her first book.

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