The Siege

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A trained hostage negotiator himself, the author uses his experiences to put the reader right in the centre of the action. By telling the story from the alternating viewpoints of each of the main characters, he gives an insight into both the disturbed mind of the hostage taker and the stressful responsibility of the police negotiator to get everyone out alive, while at the same time allowing the reader to experience the extreme fear felt by the hostages, as they helplessly await their fate. I've watched my share of Criminal Minds in my day, and this would fit in perfectly. Scenes with the characters learning about online grooming or right wings extremists could have been lifted from that series. (To be clear, I'm complimenting the book!) Superintendent Alex Lewis may be one of the most experienced hostage negotiators on the force, but there's no such thing as a perfect record. Still haunted by his last case, can he connect with Connor - and save his nine hostages - before it's too late? About This Edition ISBN: This story of a Neo-Nazi terrorist who holds an 'immigrant loving' priest and her congregation hostage is (along with some newly arrived immigrants), in my opinion, a bit of a wake up call to those who think that all terrorists (or groomed individuals) are Islamic. Based on John Sutherlands knowledge and experience as a hostage negotiator it makes scarily familiar reading to anyone who has dealt with or been on the fringes of the investigations into the far right organisations in the UK. One minor criticism is that the title of the novel isn’t the most inspiring. Nine Lives may have been a more interesting title than The Siege! Also I felt we didn’t really get to know Alan, Jean and Helen.

The Siege by John Sutherland - The Church Times

Conveys with compassion and hard-won understanding the unvarnished reality of police work today.” James Owen, The Times (Best New Thrillers for June 2022)The Revd Richard Lamey is the Rector of St Paul’s, Wokingham, and Area Dean of Sonning, in the diocese of Oxford. Lee James Connor is an unassuming and impressionable young man, who has fallen under the spell of Nicholas Farmer, a self-proclaimed leader of a banned right-wing group of extremists, currently serving time for inciting racial violence and arson. Believing his racist propaganda that the future of Britain is being threatened by a flood of immigrants and refugees, Lee decides to get Farmer released by concocting a plan to use hostages as a bargaining tool to obtain his goal. Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks. Home > I was initially sceptical as to how a book could be written solely about a siege but for the most part, it delivers.

John Sutherland – ‘The Siege’ review - Entertainment Focus John Sutherland – ‘The Siege’ review - Entertainment Focus

Grace Wheatley is mum to Isaiah and is herself no stranger to violence. A daughter of the Windrush generation she is a committed church-goer and on this fateful occasion is in church to assist with welcoming a young Syrian refugee family, recently arrived in the country.Each of the characters is introduced, and their individual stories are expanded on throughout the book. As a reader, it is great to see into the minds and lives of people in situations and also into their beliefs. This does have race and immigration at its core, but there is something that is much deeper to this story. It is a story of manipulation and of false or fake news, and how easy it is for people to believe in unsubstantiated facts. Sutherland has] poured all of his experience into the story, showcasing an engaging and gripping ability to keep the tension high while pushing the story forward * ENTERTAINMENT FOCUS * John Sutherland spent 25 years in the Metropolitan Police, spending some of that time working as a hostage negotiator. He rose to Chief Superintendent before retiring in 2018, after which he wrote his best-selling memoir ‘Blue’. ‘The Siege’ is Sutherland’s debut novel and he’s poured all of his experience into the story, showcasing an engaging and gripping ability to keep the tension high while pushing the story forward. Plot wise, ‘The Siege’ is fairly simple; a white extremist crashes an immigration support group meeting in a church hall and threatens to kill them all unless the leader of the right-wing extremist group Home Front, Nicholas Farmer, is released from prison.