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A spy story, a mystery, a father-son heartbreaker: Cyrus Copeland seeks the truth about his father, an American executive arrested in Iran for spying at the time of the 1979 hostage crisis, then put on trial for his life in a Revolutionary Court.
As a young boy living in Tehran in 1979, Cyrus Copelandchild of an American father and Iranian mothernever dreamed that his dad, an employee of Westinghouse, would be in danger for his life. That is, until the moment his father was arrested on espionage charges and put on trial in a Revolutionary Court. Almost simultaneously, more than fifty other Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy by Islamist militants, an event that has recently captivated the world again with the success of the book and filmArgo. With the hostage crisis receiving most of the attention from the media and White House, it was largely left to Copelands mother and family to negotiate his fathers reprieve from the firing squad. Now, more than thirty years later, Copeland sets out to find the truth about his father and his role in the Iranian hostage crisis. Was he in fact an intelligence operativea weapons-system expertcaught red-handed by the Iranian regime, or was he innocent all along?Part mystery, part reportage, and part detective work, Copelands brilliantly original family epic is a powerful memoir and adventure.
