Our Man In Tehran - Couverture souple

Wright, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1554683009 ISBN 13 : 9781554683000

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

The explosive national bestseller

Finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Non-Fiction

The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. As the city exploded in a fury of revolution, few knew about the six American embassy staff who escaped into hiding. For three months, Ken Taylor, the Canadian ambassador to Iran—along with his wife and embassy staffers—concealed the Americans in their homes, terrified that Ayatollah Khomeini would find out and exact deadly consequences.

In Our Man in Tehran, Robert Wright, author of the award-winning national bestseller Three Nights in Havana, tells the story behind a major historical flashpoint, a story of cloak-and-dagger intrigue, the stuff of John le Carré and Frederick Forsyth made real--and the story Ben Affleck didn't get quite right in his Oscar-winning movie based on the Canadian caper, Argo.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Wright, PhD, is professor of history at Trent University Durham in Oshawa, Ontario. He is the author of the national bestsellers Three Nights in Havana and The Night Canada Stood Still, both of which won the Canadian Authors Association’s Lela Common Award for Canadian History, and Our Man in Tehran, which was made into an award-winning documentary film. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1554683009
• ISBN 13: 9781554683000
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
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