A time to betray : the astonishing double life of a CIA agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran / Reza Kahlili.

By: Kahlili, RezaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Threshold Editions, 2010Edition: 1st Threshold Editions hardcover edDescription: 340 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9781439189030 (hbk.); 143918903X (hbk.); 9781439189672 (ebook)Subject(s): Kahlili, Reza | Sipāh-i Pāsdārān-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī (Iran) | United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees | Islam and politics -- Iran | Spies -- Iran -- Biography | Soldiers -- Iran -- Biography | Espionage, American | Intelligence officers | Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979 | Iran -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 327.1273/055 LOC classification: DS318.8 | .K33 2010
Contents:
Truth or lies -- Three friends -- Coming to America -- Shah Raft : the revolution -- The invincible Imam -- A funeral and a wedding -- Evin prison -- Commitments -- The prayer -- Code name: Wally -- Tricks of the trade -- Training for espionage -- A spy returns home -- Brothers in arms -- Hope and peril -- Hejab -- The torch is passed -- The radical -- Suspicions -- Another martyr -- Too close to home -- Far from home -- God's house -- Brother, my brother -- Leaving home -- Back into the cold -- Eye for an eye -- Double agent -- Free at last? -- Vatan -- Omid, Hope.
Summary: This true spy thriller reveals the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates. And it is the courageous account of one man's decades-long commitment to lead a double life informing on the beloved country of his birth, a place that once offered the promise of freedom and enlightenment--but is instead ruled by murderous violence and spirit-crushing oppression.--From publisher description.
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Truth or lies -- Three friends -- Coming to America -- Shah Raft : the revolution -- The invincible Imam -- A funeral and a wedding -- Evin prison -- Commitments -- The prayer -- Code name: Wally -- Tricks of the trade -- Training for espionage -- A spy returns home -- Brothers in arms -- Hope and peril -- Hejab -- The torch is passed -- The radical -- Suspicions -- Another martyr -- Too close to home -- Far from home -- God's house -- Brother, my brother -- Leaving home -- Back into the cold -- Eye for an eye -- Double agent -- Free at last? -- Vatan -- Omid, Hope.

This true spy thriller reveals the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates. And it is the courageous account of one man's decades-long commitment to lead a double life informing on the beloved country of his birth, a place that once offered the promise of freedom and enlightenment--but is instead ruled by murderous violence and spirit-crushing oppression.--From publisher description.

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