Argo - How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio)

Argo - How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio

Blurb: The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran - now a major Ben Affleck film

On 4 November 1979, Iranian militants stormed the US embassy in Tehran and held dozens of Americans hostage. Beneath the crisis another shocking story was known by only a select few: six Americans escaped the embassy and hid within the city.

A top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet risky plan to rescue them. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of CIA operatives, foreign agents and special-effects artists, Mendez travelled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science-fiction film called Argo.

After three decades, Antonio Mendez finally details this extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the pulse-pounding account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.

ISBN: 9780241964590 (Paperback)

Year: 1980

Publisher: Penguin

Pages: 310 (Non-Fiction)

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The Book, the Film, the T-Shirt (Matt Beaumont)

The Book, the Film, the T-Shirt

Matt Beaumont

Blurb: What does a successful adman do when he realises the stars of his new commercial want to kill each other, his director has walked off the set and his client has turned up in the wrong T-Shirt?

How does one of those stars react when he's asked if it's true that he's packing salami into his shorts?

Why on earth does the other one think that dueting with a Chinese Elvis impersonator on the Old Ken Road could possibly be a smart career move?

What does the successful adman's pregnant, swollen-ankled wife do when she realises the cheating bastard just happens to be shooting an ad with a rubber-clad Hollywood nymph?

And how could any of the above possibly have a connection to the world's most useless drug smuggler?

All these questions and more are answered in The Book, the Film, the T-Shirt, a novel that hilariously describes the making of a tyre ad and the destruction of several careers.

ISBN: 000714878X (Paperback)

Year: 2002

Publisher: Harper Collins

Pages: 306 (Fiction)

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