Mark Bowden Book — Best Of Show
If you want to read great non fiction, buy Mark Bowden’s “Guests of the Ayatollah”. The author of Black Hawk Down has outdone himself.
Bowden’s account of the 1979 takeover of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran is a riveting account of what is considered to be the first major political action of the Islamic Revolution that continues to haunt American diplomacy around the world. Bowden is a people guy. And nowhere is this is more evident than in the descriptions of the 52 hostages that survived over a year in the dungeon of horror that was the first regime of the new Iran.
As a fan of history, I was stunned by this page turner and how it is so critical to a contemporary understanding of the Islamic rage.
“Guests” is must reading. Bowden is an author who brings it alive!
LK
