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No Place Like Home

Written by: Caroline Overington
Narrated by: Chris Quyen
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Shortly after 9.30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi’s newest shopping complex. He’s wearing a dark grey hoodie - and a bomb around his neck.

Just a few minutes later, he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders.

For police chaplain Paul Doherty, called to the scene by Senior Sergeant Boehm, it’s a story that will end as tragically as it began. For this is clearly no ordinary siege. The boy, known as Ali Khan, seems as frightened as his hostages and has yet to utter a single word.

The seconds tick by for the five in the shop: Mitchell, the talented schoolboy; Mouse, the shop assistant; Kimmi, the nail-bar technician; and Roger Callaghan, the real estate agent whose reason for being in Bondi that day is far from innocent.

And, of course, there’s Ali Khan. Is he the embodiment of evil, as the villagers in his Tanzanian birthplace believe? Or just an innocent boy, betrayed at every turn, who just wants a place to call home?
©2021 Caroline Overington (P)2021 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.
Police Procedurals Psychological
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Straightforward book

This book is very simple. There are no surprises nor any interesting characters. The narrator does his job well however I don’t think he has much to work with. I’m not sure where the author intended to go with this story but I wouldn’t really recommend it. I kept expecting something big to happen but it never did.

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Good story but very sad

The story is very engaging and really hits home that lives are perceived to have different values depending on where you are from. I spent the whole story hoping something good would happen for Ali Khan.

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