{"title":"Ben Macintyre","description":"We stock a curated range of the most popular new and used Ben Macintyre books at bargain prices. We have many unlisted Ben Macintyre books. Looking for a particular Ben Macintyre? \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?phone=27799922882\"\u003eContact Us\u003c\/a\u003e today. 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A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.\n\n\nHowever, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, Sonya was heading for the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific secrets from a nuclear physicist. Secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the atomic bomb.\n\n\nFar from an obedient homemaker, Sonya Burton was a dedicated communist, a decorated colonel and a veteran spy who risked her life to keep the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race. 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Behind the scenes lurked the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who had bankrolled the whole affair as a salvo against Iran.\n\n\nAs police negotiators pressed the gunmen, rival protestors clashed violently outside the embassy, and as MI6 and the CIA scrambled for intelligence, Britain’s special forces strike team, the SAS, laid plans for a dangerous rescue mission. Inside, Lock and his fellow hostages used all the cunning they possessed to outwit and outflank theiors. Finally, on the sixth day, after the terrorists executed the embassy press attaché and dumped his body on the front doorstep, the SAS raid began, sparking a deadly high-stakes climax.\n\n\nA story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure, The Siege takes readers minute-by-thrilling-minute through an event that would echo across the next two decades and provide a direct historical link to the tragedy on 9\/11. Drawing on exclusive interviews and a wealth of never-before-seen files, Macintyre brilliantly reconstructs a week in which every day minted a new hero and every second spelled the potential for doom.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macintyre, Ben","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43038650237005,"sku":"CONF20260526","price":120.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/3856\/4685\/files\/9780241675687_20260510_162617.jpg?v=1779792892"}],"url":"https:\/\/readmatter.co.za\/collections\/ben-macintyre-books.oembed","provider":"Readmatter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}