Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Mother’s Heroism, and a Son’s Quest

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A spy story, a mystery, a father-son heartbreaker: Cyrus Copeland seeks the truth about his father, an American executive arrested in Iran for spying on the time of the 1979 hostage crisis, then put on trial for his life in a Revolutionary Court.

As a young boy living in Tehran in 1979, Cyrus Copeland—child of an American father and Iranian mother—never dreamed that his dad, an employee of Westinghouse, would be in danger for his life. That may be, until the moment his father Was once arrested on espionage charges and put on trial in a Revolutionary Court. Almost concurrently, more than fifty other Americans were taken hostage on the U.S. Embassy by Islamist militants, an event that has recently captivated the world again with the success of the book and film Argo. With the hostage crisis receiving a few of the attention from the media and White House, it Was once in large part left to Copeland’s mother and circle of relatives to barter his father’s reprieve from the firing squad. Now, more than thirty years later, Copeland sets out to find the truth about his father and his role within the Iranian hostage crisis. Was once he in truth an intelligence operative—a weapons-system expert—caught red-handed by the Iranian regime, or Was once he innocent all along? Part mystery, part reportage, and part detective work, Copeland’s brilliantly original circle of relatives epic is a powerful memoir and adventure. 

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