by Simon Kernick · Random House · tapa dura · ISBN 9780593062906
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«Siege» is the suspense novel by Simon Kernick, published by Random House in hardcover (368 pages, in English).
An armed commando storms the historic Hotel Lanchester on Park Lane, London, and gives the Government five hours to meet its demands before blowing up the building. As the hostages live through the night between panic and tension, one of them hides information so dangerous that he must protect it at any cost.
First installment of the Scope series. In 2013 it was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
For fans of action and suspense thrillers looking for a hostage plot with a countdown in London.
Simon Kernick is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his two daughters. Kernick attended Gillotts School, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruit-picker and Christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from Brighton Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in humanities.
