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Seige, inside the Lindt Café siege : the powerful and uncompromising story of what happened and why the police response went so tragically wrong, Deborah Snow

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Seige, inside the Lindt Café siege : the powerful and uncompromising story of what happened and why the police response went so tragically wrong, Deborah Snow
Language
eng
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrationsplatesportraitsplans
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Seige
Responsibility statement
Deborah Snow
Sub title
inside the Lindt Café siege : the powerful and uncompromising story of what happened and why the police response went so tragically wrong
Summary
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 Lindt 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. Hurtling towards its inevitable and tragic conclusion, Siege draws us into a vortex of police missteps, extraordinary bravery and profound grief to reveal what happened during that awful day
Target audience
adult