A gripping horror story for our times, The Manchester Attack exposes the covert state and then tears it apart.
The Manchester Arena bombing was a terrible wound inflicted on the psyche of a nation. The loss of life felt immense. The sense of injustice seemed unbearable. Emotions overflowed, threatening to overwhelm us. To question what we were told about the bombing was unthinkable.
Yet one investigative journalist did dare raise questions. Richard D. Hall examined every scrap of evidence. He diligently pored over every single image, every forensic detail, every eyewitness account, every official report, every news story. When he looked the state in the eye, the state blinked.
Ever since his book, Manchester: The Night of the Bang, came out, Hall has been hounded, character-assassinated, labelled a conspiracy theorist, and prosecuted for doing what investigative journalists are supposed to do: boldly confronting and querying the centres of power.
In The Manchester Attack, the first book to build on Hall’s work, investigative journalist and author Iain Davis unearths still more crucial evidence that further exposes the unpalatable truth.
Contrary to what the state concluded, the terrorist attack that this book revisits was not a suicide bombing. It did not kill 22 people and injure many more. Rather, it was a hoax and, as such, a psychological attack on us all.
