* 榮獲2014年Crime Writers’ Association頒發Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction

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.

 

Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are internationally renowned investigative journalists who worked as staff writers and foreign correspondents for the Sunday Times of London for seven years before joining the Guardian as senior correspondents. Their first book, The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade, was published to critical acclaim in 2001.

 

“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.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times

“Mr. Levy and Ms. Scott-Clark recreate in vivid detail the genesis of Operation Bombay… THE SIEGE reads like a thriller.” – The Wall Street Journal

“[A] spectacular narrative… reads like an expertly-constructed thriller that’s all the more heart-stopping because it actually happened.” – The Daily Beast

“Absolutely spine-chilling…as action-packed as any thriller and so hard to put down that it must surely end up as a movie.” – The Times of London

“This minute-by-minute account of the siege comes at you like a battering ram and takes your breath away. With a masterly control of its wide canvas, it marshals a cross-section of guests, security services and heroic Taj staff, each of them, at some point, in fear for their lives” – The Daily Mail