Siege : inside the Lindt Café : the powerful and uncompromising story of what happened and why the police response went so tragically wrong / Deborah Snow.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snow, Deborah (Author)
Language:English
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2018.
Subjects:
Terrorism > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.)
Sieges > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.)
Hostages > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.)
Sieges.
Terrorism.
Hostages.
Lindt Chocolate Café (Sydney, N.S.W.)
New South Wales > Sydney.
Australian
Physical Description:xi, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, 1 plan ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Inside the Lindt Café siege
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Author's note
  • Prologue
  • 1. In the beginning
  • 2. The first hours
  • 3. Shape-shifter
  • 4. The hostages
  • 5. Waiting game
  • 6. Another escape
  • 7. Lost opportunities
  • 8. Ships in the night
  • 9. Lengthening shadows
  • 10. The long night
  • 11. Just seven remain
  • 12. The storm breaks
  • 13. Loss
  • 14. The inquest
  • 15. Nagging questions
  • 16. Scars and memories
  • Postscript
  • Afterword: A letter from Louisa Hope.