On Wings of Eagles, (Paperback)

from lamour

Reads like fiction yet is true. Here we have the amazing story of how Ross Perot hired an ex Green Beret to lead some of his executives in an attempt to rescue two other executives who were being held illegality in a Tehran prison. At over 400 pages, there is a great deal of detail on how the var...

from BradKautz

Ken Follett has written quite a lot of suspense-filled thrillers. On Wings of Eagles differs from his usual fare in that it is a thriller that is a true story from start to finish. Follett tells the story of the capture-for-ransom and subsequent escape to freedom of two executives employed by H. ...

from dbsovereign

A true story of high corporate brass (Ross Perot) leading a rescue of businessmen in Tehran. I prefer Follett's fiction, but still found this book fascinating if for no other reason than that it chronicles a true-life "Mission: Impossible."

from ElizabethCromb

Reread during Covid 19 lockdown 2020. True story about the rescue of business men from Tehran jail as the Shah left and the revolution began in 1978-79. Gripping.

from kaulsu

The book began fairly slowly, and although I understood the need to set the stage, it would habeen easy to set it aside at that point. Only after Paul and Bill were imprisoned did the pace pick up and the book became interesting. My father worked for USOM (United States Overseas Mission--later to...