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the tehran conviction
p tom gabbay plots his most riveting tale yet agent jack teller had to make an ugly choice in his youth ... and now decades later he and the united states must deal with the blowback . p 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 agencys first attempt to overthrow the government of a sovereign nation . torn between loyalty to his countrys 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 . p 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 . jacks 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 . p divided by conflicting loyalties a young jack teller made a fateful choice that would reverberate for decades . in the tehran conviction tom gabbay masterfully interweaves politics and suspense in a searing tale of espionage and betrayal that reveals the unexpected costs our decisions hold for us and for history .
hardcover william morrow & company 2009 isbn13 9780061188459 isbn10 006118845x
abridged n isbn 13 9780061188459 number in series 1 number of pages 282 publisher harpercollins release date 62135769600000 series title jack teller