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Ken Follett
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Pages: 624 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0330354515
Pub: Pan Books
Pub date: 1998-07-10
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 56502
Reader Reviews:
First Non-Fiction I really enjoyed (6/6 people found this helpful)
I have read many of Ken Follet's books and count him as one of my favourite authors. On Wings of Eagles is a real story about a rescue mission of 2 American businessmen who have been looked up in an Iranian jail. The story is quite dramatized, but I still think it works and captures the reader as this has been written as a novel. Overall I would categories this book as a very good book, as it is fun to read, it captures you that it is hard to stop and in addition you learn about the political situation during this time.
Note: This is a non-fiction book ! (12/13 people found this helpful)
I find Folletts novels very entertaining, but this is NOT a novel, but a kind of 'dramatized' account of a real-life rescue of two American citizens from a jail in Teheran. I think that a straight objective account of the incident would have done more justice to the people involved in the mission. And because it reads like a novel you expect to see more action and suspense. All in all, I suggest that you don't read this book, before you have read all of Folletts novels.
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