Iranian Tapestry

A Harley Lanigan Novel

De: Henry Eason

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Iranian Tapestry is an international thriller, a novel that is based loosely on stories published about the Iranian Revolution by Washington correspondent Henry Eason in 1980. While Iranians held 52 Americans captive and the White House was powerless to gain their release, a reporter discovers a rogue operation to overthrow the Islamic government in Tehran—one not sanctioned by President Jimmy Carter. Fictional Washington correspondent Harley Lanigan develops sources that lead him closer to an overseas multi-nation effort aimed at overthrowing the Islamic regime of Ayatollah Khomeini and restoring in Iran a government friendly to America and the West. But as the reporter pursues the story from Washington to London to Paris and Iran, someone keeps killing his sources and chasing him. Then he runs afoul of a complex interagency spy ring that targets him and imperils the several women in his complicated personal life, including an exotic dark-eyed Persian beauty who fled Iran only to become a pawn of the CIA, forced to do their bidding to earn her green card. The story vividly depicts the exile Iranian community of former royalists, adventurers and the Islamic terrorists who want to kill them—wherever they are living in exile. Meantime, the reporter’s news bureau is about to be closed due to budget cuts unless he and his reportorial team can risk everything and publish the story of the decade that redeems his newspaper chain’s fading reputation and changes the course of Middle Eastern history. It is an ironic story of what might have been. The Author Award-winning White House correspondent Henry Eason covered national security and international affairs for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Cox Newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. His reporting on the Iranian Revolution resulted in the worldwide publication of a series of articles describing an effort by former Iranian officials to regain power by overthrowing the Islamic government of Ayatollah Khomeini. During his career in Washington, Eason wrote numerous articles about national security and espionage and is one of very few reporters to testify before a congressional committee on American military readiness overseas. His articles on Soviet spying in the United States also resulted in a Senate investigation and changes in the law and regulations that protect Americans from foreign espionage. Now a business magazine editor in San Francisco, Eason has just completed a second novel—soon to be published—about Nazi spies on the West Coast during World War II. He lives with his wife Ellen Eason, a magazine publisher and graphic artist who was an aide in the U.S. Senate.