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Argo

Name: Argo
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group : Penguin Books / Penguin / Penguin Books
SKU: 9780147509734-PRUSDTR
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How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

Antonio Mendez (Author) • Matt Baglio (Author) ... more

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Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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320 pages • 13.34 x 20.19 x 1.65 cm

Approx. weight: 0.26 kg

Publication date: 06 Feb,2013

Barcode/ ISBN: 9780147509734 • Penguin Publishing Group : Penguin Books / Penguin / Penguin Books

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By: Antonio Mendez, Matt Baglio

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.