William Shawcross, the acclaimed author of Sideshow, captures the true story of emperor's dreams and illusions, exile, and death at the hands of his friends and foes. Shunned by his former allies, the Shah and the Empress Farah Diba, wandered from Egypt to the Bahamas, Mexico, and then Panama, where they were guarded by Colonial Noriega and his police. Their admission to the United States sparked the hostage crisis that consolidated the Islamic Fundamentalists' revolution. Ultimately, only Anwar Sadar would risk the Ayatollah Khoemini's wrath by granting them asylum. From the surreal world of the Pahlavi court, with its lavish excesses and secret police, to the Shah's last days, here in the entire drama. It provides an incisive and intriguing portrait of international power politics and of a foreign policy debacle that still reverberates today. Source: OpenLibrary