The Persian
(2025)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW FICTION/MCCLOSKEY,D

3 Holds on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Fiction NEW FICTION/MCCLOSKEY,D Due: 11/7/2025

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2025]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

390 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781324123194, 1324123192 :, 1324123192, 9781324123194
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living out a dreary existence in Stockholm, agrees to spy for the Mossad after he's recruited by Arik Glitzman, the chief of a clandestine unit tasked with running targeted assassinations and sabotage inside Iran. At Glitzman's direction, Kam returns to his native Tehran and opens a dental practice there, using it as a cover for the Israeli intelligence agency. Kam proves to be a skillful asset, quietly earning money helping Glitzman smuggle weapons, run surveillance, and conduct kidnappings. But when Kam tries to recruit an Iranian widow seeking to avenge the death of her husband at the hands of the Mossad, the operation goes terribly wrong, landing him in prison under the watchful eye of a sadistic officer whom he knows only as the "General." And now, after enduring three years of torture in captivity, Kamran Esfahani sits in an interrogation room across from the General, preparing to write his final confession. Kam knows it is too late to save himself. But he has managed to keep one secret--only one--and he just might be able to save that."--