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Guests of the Ayatollah
the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
By Bowden, Mark
- ISBN
- 978-0-87113-925-2
- Publisher
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 2006
According to his publisher, Bowden (Black Hawk Down ) took five years to write this book. It wasn't long enough. His account of the Iran Hostage Crisis is overwritten, sloppy in detail, and seemingly endless. He begins with prose not unlike that of the pulp novels that Garrison Keillor's "Guy Noir" satirizes, and by the time his writing becomes less turgid the reader realizes with horror that there still remains an ardu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
