Appointment in Tehran, James Stejskal
Appointment in Tehran, James Stejskal
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Appointment in Tehran
A Cold War Spy Thriller

Author: James Stejskal

Narrator: Perry Daniels

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/15/2023

Synopsis

When radical Iranian students seize the U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran and take over fifty diplomats hostage, the U.S. President has to negotiate with a government that wants only to humiliate the United States. When talks fail, the President must turn to the military to bring the Americans home by force. As preparations are made for an audacious rescue, an American intelligence officer hides alone in a Tehran safehouse with a secret. He is protecting a powerful weapon known as the Perses Device, which is now at risk of being captured and employed against the United States. The Agency Director orders that it must be brought out at all costs. But as a small American team clandestinely enters Tehran to lead the way for the rescue force, a traitor spills the secret and KGB Spetsnaz operatives begin their own search for the weapon. At the last minute, one more American is added to the advance team—his sole mission is to get the Agency officer and the Perses device to safety. When the rescue mission fails, only two Americans are left to run the gauntlet of enemy agents and get the weapon out. Getting in was easy . . .

About James Stejskal

James Stejskal, after thirty-five years of service with United States Army Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency, is a uniquely qualified historian and novelist. He is the author of Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990; Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz; No Moon as Witness; and The Snake Eater Chronicles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steven on March 21, 2023

The second book in James Stejskal's Snake Eater Chronicles, Appointment in Tehran, picks up some time after the first installment, A Question of Time. The setting is the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, and the American response, code-named Eagle Claw. Most aficionados of American special operati......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 23, 2023

A brilliant, non-stop nail-biting tension-fest to its jaw-dropping finale! This is my second book in the Snake Eater Chronicles series by Mr James Stejkal following the adventures of the special forces team from Support Detachment Berlin. In Appointment in Tehran, the American Embassy siege and hosta......more

Goodreads review by Tomasz on June 22, 2022

I'm pleasantly surprised - this time the author hasn't forgotten to work out a plot that doesn't insult the reader :) The historical background is done well, too. However - as per usual in US/UK genre prose, the Russian bits are done by Google Translate and thus unintentionally ridiculous. Keep it u......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on November 29, 2021

If like me you remember the 1979 episode when radical Iranian students seized the US embassy in Tehran and took more than 50 Americans hostage, you’ll read James Stejskal’s riveting new thriller with an increasing sense of foreboding. That’s especially if you also recall that the US military launche......more

Goodreads review by Lynda on January 10, 2022

The 2nd book in the Snake Eater Chronicles fiction series. This is a very well written book mixing factual and fictional events. This is a work of fiction, set in Iran in 1979 when the American Embassy was taken over by students, the embassy staff were taken hostage and the attempted rescue of the h......more

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