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  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446444627
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

Into the Darkness:

An Account of 7/7




A dramatic, personal, but definitive account of the day London changed forever.

On the morning of 7 July 2005, Peter Zimonjic, a Canadian journalist living and working in London, was travelling on an eastbound Circle line train heading towards Edgware Road. Coming in the opposite direction was a train carrying Mohammed Sidique Khan with a bag full of explosives. As the trains passed each other in the tunnel, Sidique Khan detonated his bomb. Peter's train came to a standstill and he managed to smash the window in his carriage and crawl into the carnage where he and several others spent the next hour desperately trying to help the injured and dying.

Into the Darkness reconstructs the story of the day at all four bomb sites based on intensive interviews with dozens of survivors. In the form of a dramatic narrative this book documents the bravery, the triumphs, the despairs, and the shortfalls that occurred on a day when the innocence of thousands of ordinary commuters was lost forever.

  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446444627
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

Peter Zimonjic

Peter Zimonjic was born in Toronto in 1973. He married in Dorset, England, in 1999 and immigrated to the UK in 2003. He lives in London with his wife, Donna, and his children, Anja and Jacob, where he works as a columnist and journalist.

Praise for Into the Darkness:

A highly charged account of the bombings around a fusion of first person narrative and eye witness account. This has a vivid effect

Herald

A minute-by-minute report of what happens when a powerful bomb explodes in a crowded Tube train during rush hour... [an] eloquent book

Literary Review

In a breath-taking book, [Zimonjic] describes the bravery, triumph and despair of that terrible day

Daily Mail

It gives permanent voice to the victims and unusual insight into the horrors they suffered... Poignant and compelling

Ottawa Citizen