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“For six days, it was the Iranian embassy at the Princess Gate in London, which extended the world. The magnificent reconstruction of McIntire restored it in a detailed, complex life.” – Washington Post
One of the most rigorous mortgage conditions of an exciting tick-talk and one of our time’s courageous rescue efforts from one-Tru-Life detective Master and New York Times Bestseling writer from Operation Minsmet and The Spy and the Tractor.
,[Ben Macintyre is] John Le Carre’s Nonfiction equivalent. ” – The New York Times
Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, Minnesota Star Tribune, Parade
The US hostage crisis in Iran was boiled in its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavy armed gunmen held twenty -six hostage at the Iranian embassy in London. What was in the next six days was a rapid stressed deadlock, a one who threatened to spread to a bloodbase at any moment.
Policeman Trever Lock was about to go to the theater that night. Instead, he found himself strong and whispered in the embassy. The terrorists never saw the gun hidden in their jacket. The drama that took place would force him to find the store of courage, which he did not know that he was. The gunmen themselves were hardly an dimensional-all Arab, some highly educated, who had expected Britain to force them to present their case in their freedom fight against supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The cruel Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was lurled behind the curtain, who stopped the entire relationship against Iran as Salvo.
As police negotiators pressurized gunmen, rival protesting violently clashed outside the embassy, and as MI6 and the CIA scrambled for intelligence information, Britain’s special forces strike team, SAS planned for a dangerous rescue mission. Inside, lock and their fellow hostages used all clever to exclude and take out all their prisoners. Finally, on the sixth day, the terrorists threw the embassy press briefcase and threw his body at the front door, the SAS raid began, spewing a deadly high-dawn climax.
A story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure, the siege takes a minute-by-throwing-minute through an event that resonates in the next two decades and provides a direct historical link for the tragedy on 9/11. The treasure of exclusive interviews and ever never seen files, Macintyre rebuilds a week in a week in which a new hero is mined every day and each other wrote the ability to do doom.
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Customers find the book highly readable and engaging, with one review noting how it tells the tale from multiple points of view and provides a gripping account of real events. They appreciate the author’s writing style, with one describing it as a superb non-fiction work.
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