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Also by Antonio Mendez:

Argo, February 2013
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Argo, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Spy Dust, September 2003
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Master Of Disguise, November 2000
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)

Also by Matt Baglio:

Argo, February 2013
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Argo, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

ARGO
By: Antonio Mendez, Matt Baglio

How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

Viking
February 2013
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Featuring: Tony Mendez
ISBN: 0147509734
EAN: 9780147509734
Kindle: B007V65PLA
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
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Other Editions
Hardcover (September 2012)

Suspense | Non-Fiction

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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