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Guests of the Ayatollah
Mark Bowden
The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
Atlantic Monthly Press
April 2006
704 pages
ISBN: 0871139251
Hardcover
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Historical | Non-Fiction
From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes
a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis,
America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4,
1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the
revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the
U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans
hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this
sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the
soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them,
their radical, na�ve captors, and the diplomats working to
end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages' cells
and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President
Carter and his exhausted team. We travel to international
capitals where shadowy figures held clandestine
negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a
courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages
exploded into tragic failure. Bowden dedicated five years to
this research, including numerous trips to Iran and
countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly
re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped
and ultimately changed the world.
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