The Man Who Fooled SAVAK Douglas Roberts Books
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NOW MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER! EXPERIENCE FIRST-HAND OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE UNDER A REPRESSIVE, DICTATOR! The saga mirrors the ordeal of Jamal Khashoggi and his family.A true story about the power of love and what one man did to save his girlfriend and her mother from certain death in the hands of one of the most brutal dictatorships of modern times.As a former anti-war activist against the war in Vietnam, Doug Roberts now a draftee in the U.S. Army is assigned to the classified message center in Tehran, Iran, where he uncovers evidence that the regime is corrupt and propped up by one of the most brutal secret police forces in modern times – SAVAK.He knows this because his Iranian girlfriend's family is feeling SAVAK's repression and later he nearly loses his life as he also is targeted by SAVAK. Now, he’s caught in the middle. What to do?HE LAUNCHES A THRILLING AND DANGEROUS PLAN to smuggle his girlfriend and her mother out of the country. What transpires is a romantic thriller of love and freedom and what one man would do to have both.Inspired by true events!
The Man Who Fooled SAVAK Douglas Roberts Books
Doug Roberts in "The Man Who Fooled SAVAK", shows us American military life in Tehran, Iran in the early 70s when the country was still firmly in control of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and this control is maintained by the 'Organization of Intelligence and National Security', the fearsome SAVAK. Doug Roberts' story, which he tells us is loosely based on his time in Iran, stretches across multiple genres: part "You're in the Army Now", part "Love Story", part "political thriller/escape caper'. You can feel both the emotion and the politics of the author throughout the book. This novel is a love story about a young G.I. and a local Iranian girl. As their relationship deepens, the author learns how her family, and so many other Iranians, suffer under the iron-fist of SAVAK, whose name has become synonymous with torture and murder, and the overpowering symbol of the Shah's corruption and downfall.As a slice of history, "The Man Who Fooled SAVAK", shows us a part of the world that America was intricately involved yet few Americans know about. America's establishment of the Shah in 1953 via CIA organized coup is the thorn in the side of the Iranian psyche that eventually leads to the 1979 revolution and the taking of the 52 American hostages. SAVAK was the organization that America helped create so the Shah could initially 'weed out' the communist influence in his own military forces, but as the power of SAVAK grew the deadly mission extended to all threats against the regime both external and internal. In Roberts' book, we are still 8 years from the revolution but the seeds are sown. Another interesting aspect of this novel is the author/character's backstory. Before arriving in Tehran as a draftee, Doug Roberts is a student anti-war activist at Kent State University. With 'Four Dead in Ohio' still ringing in his ears he finds himself once again 'under the gun' facing challenges not only from SAVAK, but also from within the US Army. There is a revolution going on in both sides of his life, as an American soldier and as an Expat in a foreign land, and it all comes to a climax when the author must take on SAVAK or lose the love of his life. "The Man Who Fooled SAVAK" is another piece in the complex and heartbreaking saga of the failed relationship between the USA and Iran. For other expat stories about life in the Shah's Iran, check out Farangi Girl: Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story and Sons of the Great Satan
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The Man Who Fooled SAVAK Douglas Roberts Books Reviews
Loved this book. I hated to have it end. A good mix of romance, suspense and history. Very well written. A page turner.
A book you can't put down. Kept me on the edge all the way to the end. A story of romance and drama. A very good read...
The tale,itself was quite enjoyable, although the situation seemed to have been displaced in time. All told things weren't as bad when I was there from 75-78. The situation didn't really start to deteriorate until late 78.
I lived in Tehran in the 1970's, and the cityscape Roberts describes is familiar to me. However, the perspective from his personal experience was quite enlightening. The novel tells a gripping story with rich detail and personal empathy. It was a fascinating and baffling time to be an American in Iran. I wish people around the world would read this book.
Boy! this was good! I loved meeting the parents, trying to outrun his memories in the park ...takes me back to those times, the music and love, anger and rage over politics and THE WAR....I kept trying to blink myself back to the present. So deep I had to take breaks from the story to center myself. WOW!
This is a real page turner which is very hard to put down. It took me back three decades to a time when the Shah was still in power, and made the culture of this fascinating country much more understandable to this mid-western American. I'd recommend it for anyone who likes a good romantic thriller, or has an interest in recent Iranian history.
A hippie turns soldier in the Vietnam War era, ends up in Iran, and then falls in love with an Iranian woman whose family and associates live under an especially dark cloud of the dictatorial Shah's regime. Mysteries, chase scenes, military and intercultural follies follow, along with who-can-we-trust espionage dilemmas which ensure the reader a gripping progression of tense sub-climaxes and climaxes. Will there be final deliverance of a measure of justice for freedom-minded Iranians? Will the love affair be validated and a damsel in distress rescued? Read this to find out, and also enjoy some important needed stereotype adjustments in the process. (One discomfort -- author uses real names for a story with a fictional narrative. Not sure I like that for characters in a fictionalized reality who are/were not public figures in real life, but it is still a worthy story based on real people, in a real time and place.)
Doug Roberts in "The Man Who Fooled SAVAK", shows us American military life in Tehran, Iran in the early 70s when the country was still firmly in control of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and this control is maintained by the 'Organization of Intelligence and National Security', the fearsome SAVAK. Doug Roberts' story, which he tells us is loosely based on his time in Iran, stretches across multiple genres part "You're in the Army Now", part "Love Story", part "political thriller/escape caper'. You can feel both the emotion and the politics of the author throughout the book. This novel is a love story about a young G.I. and a local Iranian girl. As their relationship deepens, the author learns how her family, and so many other Iranians, suffer under the iron-fist of SAVAK, whose name has become synonymous with torture and murder, and the overpowering symbol of the Shah's corruption and downfall.
As a slice of history, "The Man Who Fooled SAVAK", shows us a part of the world that America was intricately involved yet few Americans know about. America's establishment of the Shah in 1953 via CIA organized coup is the thorn in the side of the Iranian psyche that eventually leads to the 1979 revolution and the taking of the 52 American hostages. SAVAK was the organization that America helped create so the Shah could initially 'weed out' the communist influence in his own military forces, but as the power of SAVAK grew the deadly mission extended to all threats against the regime both external and internal. In Roberts' book, we are still 8 years from the revolution but the seeds are sown. Another interesting aspect of this novel is the author/character's backstory. Before arriving in Tehran as a draftee, Doug Roberts is a student anti-war activist at Kent State University. With 'Four Dead in Ohio' still ringing in his ears he finds himself once again 'under the gun' facing challenges not only from SAVAK, but also from within the US Army. There is a revolution going on in both sides of his life, as an American soldier and as an Expat in a foreign land, and it all comes to a climax when the author must take on SAVAK or lose the love of his life. "The Man Who Fooled SAVAK" is another piece in the complex and heartbreaking saga of the failed relationship between the USA and Iran. For other expat stories about life in the Shah's Iran, check out Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran A Daughter's Story and Sons of the Great Satan
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