Whirlwind
1231 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1986
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ISBN: 9780340766187
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Morrow
Publication date: 2 December 1999
Description
Whirlwind is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international intrigue is a team of professional pilots. They are ordered to flee to safety with their helicopters. Two of them, both Europeans, have Iranian wives whom they love beyond safety and politics.