Home Run - 1989

Summary
No one knows better than Matthew Furniss the dangers of espionage in the Middle East. For two decades, spanning the Shah's rule and the regime of Ayatolla Khomeini, he has run the British agents in Iran. The Islamic Revolution and its aftermath decimated his network of agents and destroyed many of his closest friends. Charlie Eshraq, the son of one of those friends, has joined the exile community in London, where he is treated by Furniss as an adopted son.

Eshraq nurses a fierce obsession for vengeance against those responsible for the shooting of his father and the public execution of his sister. That obsession has driven him to hunt down the judges and the executioners who destroyed his family, and he travels repeatedly into Iran to kill them. Each time he returns from Iran he hands Furniss the vital raw intelligence that he has collected.


Extract
He had never known such quiet. They would all remember her, all who watched the handcuffed girl in the white robe, standing alone on the table as the executioner jumped down. The arm of the crane surged upwards. She died painfully, struggling, but quickly. For two hours, high above the street, her body hung from the arm of the crane.

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