TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gabbay,Tom
TI  - The Tehran conviction
SN  - 9780061188459 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS 3607 .A22 T47 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - William Morrow
KW  - Teller, Jack (Fictitious character : Gabbay)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Intelligence officers
KW  - Americans
KW  - Iran
KW  - History
KW  - Coup d'état, 1953
KW  - Revolution, 1979
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Spy stories
N2  - "Tehran 1953. Jack Teller, a new recruit to the recently established Central Intelligence Agency, finds himself in Iran posing as a high-level American oil executive as part of Operation Ajax, the agency's first attempt to overthrow the government of a sovereign nation. Torn between loyalty to his country's policies and sympathy for the hopes of a fledgling democracy, Jack must ultimately pick which side he will betray. It is a decision that will affect the future of the Middle East and, eventually, the world. Twenty-six years later, in 1979, Jack returns to a very different Iran. The country is in the grip of a religious revolution, and the streets of the capital city are filled with daily rantings against The Great Satan. Jack's attempt to save one man from Islamic justice -- a man whom he had, at one time, called a friend -- leads him into the heart of an emerging struggle between the West and a new and dangerous ideology"--From publisher description
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