Siege by Simon Kernick
‘They killed her as soon as she opened the front door.’
So begins this fast-paced thriller indicating as it does,
the building of action and suspense. Short chapters with cliff-hanging endings
employ a story telling method that draws in the reader at full speed.
Diverse explosions
across London engage
the attention of the authorities from the major objective of storming the
prestigious Stanhope Hotel, Park
Lane, by a highly trained group of terrorists
identifying themselves as the Pan-Arab Army of God. They give the British
government five hours to meet their demands before blowing up the building and
all its’ guests. Of course the guests are many and varied with a range of
issues of their own and it is sometimes difficult to keep up with all the
characters. However, the brutality of the terrorists, the diversity of the
guests and the difficulties faced by the police and anti terror squad add to
the complexity.
This is indeed
dramatic story-telling made more potent because of its clear relationship with
recent events around the world.
A good read.
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