{"product_id":"argo-9780147509734","title":"Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe true account of a daring rescue that inspired the film ARGO, winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them before they were detected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDisguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents, and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fiction film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and smuggling them out of Iran.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAntonio Mendez finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Putnam Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42979034333350,"sku":"9780147509734","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780147509734_14fc019d-9c0a-48c2-979e-e5d4aec1d3e5.jpg?v=1656109973","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/argo-9780147509734","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}