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The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel Audiobook
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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.
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“A propulsive and exceedingly well-reported book that offers an intense ticktock account, the fullest we have had, of the attack on the Taj…It’s a tragedy and a thriller with concussive human and political resonance. I read it in what felt like three blinks.”
— New York Times
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Narrator James Langton is clear and measured in chronicling the coordinated attack on the luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Oberoi Trident, Leopold Cafe, and other locations of significance in Mumbai by members of a Pakistani terrorist organization.
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“Mr. Levy and Ms. Scott-Clark re-create in vivid detail the genesis of Operation Bombay…The Siege reads like a thriller.”
— Wall Street Journal
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About the Authors
Cathy Scott-Clark has coauthored four books with Adrian Levy, including The Meadow and The Amber Room. She has worked as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for the Sunday Times (London) and has also coproduced, with Levy, several documentaries for American and British television.
Adrian Levy has coauthored four books with Cathy Scott-Clark, including The Meadow and The Amber Room. He has worked as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for the Sunday Times (London) and has also coproduced several documentaries for American and British television.
About James Langton
James Langton, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and later as a musician at the Guildhall School in London. He has worked in radio, film, and television, also appearing in theater in England and on Broadway. He is also a professional musician who led the internationally renowned Pasadena Roof Orchestra from 1996 to 2002.