{"product_id":"believers-love-and-death-in-tehran-9781568593807","title":"Believers: Love and Death in Tehran","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Thirty years have passed since a shattered Nilufar Hartman  pregnant and betrayed  fled Iran. She barely got out alive  carrying her deepest secrets of love and tragedy. Nilufar had arrived in Tehran in November 1979 to take a job as a junior American diplomat at the U.S. Embassy. She had instead spent nine years as an American spy  reporting from deep inside the new Islamic Republic as it collapsed into extremism  civil strife  and war. After her return to America  she chose a quiet university life andswore she would never again do Washingtons bidding. Her tranquility is upended by a plea from Alan Porter  the man who had sent her to Tehran in 1979. Porter tells her about a plot by colluding American and Iranian extremists to provoke a war between the two countries. He says she is the only person who can stop it. Nilufar is reluctant to go back to Iran  vividly recalling the agony of her years under cover  when she posed as a believer  the devout and revolutionary \"Massoumeh\". She can never forget the horrific end to her mission when her lover and the father of her unborn child were murdered. A commitment to serve the United States  which never died inside her  propels her back into the maelstrom. Nilufar adopts another covert identity and returns toIran to end the parallel conspiracies intent on sparking a conflict. While she is working in Tehran  Porter must stop the Americans ready to promote their private agendas through mass murder. Nilufar must evade Irans vicious secret police  deliver a message from America  convince a patriotic but suspicious group of Iranians to act  and once more manage a narrow escape from both Iran and her own memories\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67868462448693,"sku":"ByrdShop_1568593805","price":34.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781568593807.jpg?v=1793548125","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/believers-love-and-death-in-tehran-9781568593807","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}