If Ben Macintyre ever tires of writing true espionage stories and crazy capers, he can become a professional narrator instead. In 1980, shortly after Margaret Thatcher's election, at the same time that the U.S. was watching its own hostage crisis in Iran, six gunmen captured the Iranian embassy in London, taking more than two dozen hostages. Macintyre's precise British accent is compelling, his timing creates growing tension as the denouement approaches, and his sense of humor at some of the narrative's quirky details is on subtle display. From the gunmen's demand that a province in Iran become independent to the interruption of a snooker final in order to show the SAS raid on live TV--Macintyre keeps his foot on the gas. A.B. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2024]
Trade Ed. Random House Audio 2024
DD ISBN 9780593913673 $25.00
Library Ed. Books on Tape 2024
DD ISBN 9780593913680 $95.00
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