The Siege, Cathy ScottClark
The Siege, Cathy ScottClark
2 Rating(s)
List: $17.99 | Sale: $12.59
Club: $8.99

The Siege
68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel

Author: Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/29/2013


Synopsis

Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world's most exclusive luxury hotels. For sixty-eight hours, hundreds were held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. When the smoke cleared, thirty-one people were dead and many more had been injured. Only the courageous actions of staff and guests—including Mallika Jagad, Bob Nichols, and Taj general manager Binny Kang—prevented a much higher death toll.

With a deep understanding of the region and its politics and a narrative flair reminiscent of Midnight in Peking, journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy vividly unfold the tragic events in a real-life thriller filled with suspense, tragedy, history, and heroism.

About Cathy Scott-Clark

Cathy Scott-Clark is coauthor, with Adrian Levy, of four books, including The Meadow and The Amber Room. For eighteen years, she worked as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for the Sunday Times and then the Guardian. She has been named British Journalist of the Year by the One World Trust as well as Foreign Correspondent of the Year. She has also coproduced, with Levy, several documentaries for American and British television, including City of Fear and Kashmir's Torture Trail. Cathy lives in France.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Arun

There are two ways in which I could write this review : 1. Tell you about the incompetency of the system which allowed such a brazen act of terrorism on Indian soil to escalate to previously unseen levels. Right from the botched up handling of external and domestic intelligence handling to the readin......more