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Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
by Antonio Mendez,Matt Baglio
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670026220
- ISBN 13
- 9780670026227
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Viking, September 2012. Hardcover . Used - Good. Slight wear. May have minor sticker residue, marks, or writing. Our service is second to none because we use easy to remove inventory tags and ship every day so your book arrives quicker! As an independent bookstore in the Midwest, we thank you for the support. Satisfaction guaranteed in all transactions. Let us know what we can do to help!
Synopsis
The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired the critically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Ravin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27201
- Title
- Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
- Author
- Antonio Mendez,Matt Baglio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670026220
- ISBN 13
- 9780670026227
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- September 2012
- Pages
- 320
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