The Argo
Download and Read The Argo full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free The Argo ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Argo
Author | : Antonio Mendez |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2013-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0147509734 |
Download Argo Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The true account of a daring rescue that inspired the film ARGO, winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents, and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fiction film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and smuggling them out of Iran. Antonio Mendez finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.
Argo Related Books
Pages: 321
Pages: 330
Pages: 574
Pages: 190
Pages: 115