Iran Spy

The Iran Wars is an absorbing account of a battle waged on many levels - military, financial, and covert. Jay Solomon’s book is the product of extensive in-depth reporting and interviews with all the key players in the conflict - from high-ranking Iranian officials to Secretary of State John Kerry and his negotiating team. With a reporter’s masterly investigative eye and the narrative dexterity of a great historian, Solomon shows how Iran’s nuclear development went unnoticed for years by the international community only to become its top security concern.

This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic changes, revolutions, civil wars, foreign occupation, and the rise of the Islamic Republic.

On November 4, 1979, "student" supporters of the Ayatollah seized the U.S. Embassy with over sixty hostages. Although the Cold War was in full swing, the Iran hostage crisis was a watershed for the United States. Detachment A had been established in Berlin early in the Cold War to harass and delay any Soviet military advance west. This Special unit trained relentlessly for every aspect of unconventional warfare, and was later assigned a second mission of counterterrorism. Veteran and historian James Stejskal details Det A's unique and integral role in Operation Eagle Claw.

In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States.

When a commercial flight violates restricted airspace to make an emergency landing at a closed airport in Iran, the passengers are just happy to be alive and ready to transfer to a functional plane. All of them except one...the American technology consultant in business class is not who he says he is. Zac Miller is a CIA analyst. And after an agent's cover gets blown, Zac - though never trained to be a field operative - volunteers to take his place, to keep a surveillance mission from being scrubbed.

When a nuclear-empowered Iran begins throwing its weight around the Persian Gulf, the U.S. uneasily stands by, its military weakened by years of budget cuts and unpopular, inconclusive police actions. But the new President realizes there is one weapon he can use: the newest secret cell of the CIA's Intelligence Support Agency, code-named Future Flight.

The ultimate thriller—with a twist. Forty-five years ago, a set of twins was separated at birth when their parents were caught in the crossfire between police and robbers. Flash forward to the present. Five billionaires plot to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, by hiring the most expensive killer in the world. Iran learns of the plot through a web of sex, lies, and betrayal, but they know they are hopelessly outclassed in counterterrorism. Only one service in the world has the wherewithal to bring down the assassin—Israel, a country Iran refuses to recognize. ...

Le nouveau thriller de Cédric Bannel, qui entrouvre une porte sur les coulisses secrètes de la DGSE. INTRÉPIDE. IDÉALISTE. IMPLACABLE. Il existe au sein de la DGSE une entité dédiée aux missions tellement sensibles qu'elles ne peuvent être confiées à ses membres officiels. Edgar, trente-trois ans, parisien, est l'un de ces agents de l'ombre très spéciaux. S'il tombe, il tombera seul. Sa prochaine destination : la frontière entre l'Iran et l'Afghanistan. Là, dans une des tours du silence de l'antique foi zoroastrienne, sa cible l'attend.

ASSASSIN, PART ONE Forty-five years ago, a set of twins was separated at birth when their parents were caught in the crossfire between police and robbers. Flash forward to the present. Five billionaires plot to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, by hiring the most expensive killer in the world. Iran learns of the plot through a web of sex, lies, and betrayal, but they know that in counterterrorism. only one service in the world has the wherewithal to bring down the assassin—and it’s operated by a country Iran refuses to recognize. If you like a great thriller, ...

Eine unheilvolle alte Allianz bedroht das Gleichgewicht der Weltmächte. Präsident Jack Ryan kämpft an allen Fronten: Während es innenpolitisch in den USA hoch hergeht, rückt in Osteuropa Russland in die Ukraine vor. Dann gelangen zwei russische Atomraketen in den Iran. Hängt beides miteinander zusammen? Und was hat die neue iranische Rebellenbewegung damit zu tun? Die gibt sich zwar zunächst als Verbündeter aus, macht sich jedoch schnell höchstverdächtig. Langsam entwirren sich die Fäden eines perfiden Komplotts.

ASSASSIN, PART THREE Ramp up the suspense, ramp up the excitement, fasten your seatbelt, and try to stop biting your nails as we roar into the third and final section of Assassin. Here’s where it all comes together, and if, by chance, you haven’t grabbed onto your copy of parts one and two, there’s still time to do so! Warning! Try not to flip to the end of the book to find out how it will end – you’ll spoil the surprise for yourself and miss the intricacies which make this, in the words of the subtitle, The Ultimate Thriller. Now that you’ve sampled a taste of someone who may ...

ASSASSIN, PART TWO Forty-five years ago, a set of twins was separated at birth when their parents were caught in the crossfire between police and robbers. Today, five billionaires plot to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, by hiring the most expensive killer in the world. Iran learns the vaguest generalities of the plot but they know that only one service in the world had the wherewithal to bring down the assassin—and it’s operated by a country Iran refuses to recognize—Israel. Nevertheless, Iran finally managed to borrow Israel’s — perhaps the world’s...

Dies ist die Lebensgeschichte von Barry Seal. Er war der wohl größte Drogenschmuggler der US-Geschichte. Er hatte Freunde ganz oben in Washington. Ende der 70er Jahre flog er wöchentlich bis zu 1,5 Tonnen Kokain in die USA - über Mena, Arkansas. Als Seal dabei "versehentlich" verhaftet wurde, kam er dank eines Freibriefs des jungen Oberstaatsanwalts von Arkansas und späteren US-Präsidenten, Bill Clinton, prompt aus der Untersuchungshaft wieder frei.

Shadows of Deception is a fast-paced thriller that goes deep into the murky underworld of covert operations, political intrigue, and the fight for redemption. As our heroes try to stop a dark plot that could kill them both, they must face a scary question: How far are they willing to go to protect their friendship and save themselves? In the middle of the 1980s, a veteran US Army Airborne soldier gets caught up in a dangerous game of spying and betrayal. When the mysterious Agency hires him for secret missions in Honduras and Nicaragua, he teams up with his trusted Special Forces friend, ...

Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man, he is decidedly apolitical - even during the driver’s strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point, and Yunus has reached his. Handcuffed and blindfolded, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark, strangely ordered world, his fate becomes entwined with Hajj Saeed, his personal interrogator. The two develop a disturbing yet interdependent relationship, with each playing his assigned role in a high stakes psychological game of cat and mouse.