Edward d shirley biography books

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    • Nelson (N.D.) Dodge Shirley - Biography - askART.

    Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran

    July 10, 2015
    Know Thine Enemy is really three books in one, and all of them mis-titled.

    Edward d shirley biography books

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  • Nelson (N.D.) Dodge Shirley - Biography - askART
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    • The 'present' of the book is the mid-90s, as Shirley (psuedonym of Reuel Marc Gerecht, former CIA case officer specializing in the Middle East and presently a moderately hawkish DC policy type) goes on a long dreamed of trip into Iran.

    I can only describe this as the worst idea ever, as it involves smuggling himself over the border in an excruciatingly small hidden compartment in a truck. Shirley will get to see the land-at night, illuminated by headlights, a few cement cities much like any other in West Asia, truckstop tearooms, small apartments, one trip to the bazaar, and a few ancient tombs and citadels.

    The penalty for being discovered by a wandering patrol of the Revolutionary Guard would be horrific, but Iran is far from an Iron Curtain police state, and Shirley makes it in and out safely--obviously, or else this would be