An aging Russian cargo plane descends to a remote airstrip in
Kazakhstan. Its mission is a nightmare: exchange 1,300 pounds of
gold for an equal amount of weapons-grade uranium-the first crucial
step in an Iranian plot to build and detonate a nuclear bomb in the
heartland of America. Col. Ashkan Gharabaghi, an officer of Iran's
murderous Quds Force, stands near the runway, studying the aging
plane's lumbering approach. Elizabeth Mallory watches, too. The
brilliant young CIA agent has ridden Gunpowder over long stretches
of desolate, fallout-poisoned Kazakh countryside to try to stop the
export of the black market uranium. Time is short. The sun is
setting. The nuclear bomb material sits at the end of the dusty
runway, ready for loading. This is how Tom Reed's frighteningly
real thriller, The Tehran Triangle, takes off. In his riveting
first novel, Reed, a noted historian, fuses a lifetime's experience
in nuclear weaponry and spy craft to a story deeply wedded to fact.
The book's harrowing outcome will be remembered-and feared-long
after it has been read. Reed is a former Secretary of the Air Force
under two presidents and the youngest-ever Director of the National
Reconnaissance Office, an organization so secret that its very
existence was not revealed until the end of the Cold War. He
plunges thriller fans into the harrowing chessboard of
international surveillance and intelligence gathering. Farsi
speaking Agent Mallory emerges as the CIA's point person on Iran.
Gharabaghi rises in the Quds ranks, becoming a powerful colonel,
sponsored by his long-time friend Mansoor Alizadeh, the President
of the Iranian Republic. Mallory's perilous investigation of
Iranian penetration of the US brings her to a most unlikely hub of
terrorist activity-a machine shop servicing the oil and gas
industry and owned by retired Air Force Sergeant Bum Bradley and
his brother, Hiram. She discovers Col. Gharabaghi's evil scheme to
recruit two American citizens of Iranian descent, engineer
Rosincourt Sadr, and his girlfriend, Soroya Assad, to assemble the
nuclear bomb. Step by step, Reed reveals how a religion's most
extreme beliefs can drive even comfortable, well-educated American
citizens into the fever grip of terrorism. Col. Gharabaghi
orchestrates the plot from Chihuahua while Mallory urgently tries
to counter his murderous moves from El Paso, right across the
border. It is now July 2012. As the plot moves toward its
furiously-paced conclusion, Mallory makes increasingly frantic
efforts to sabotage the bomb, now rolling down railroad tracks
toward the Trinity detonation site in New Mexico. The countdown
culminates when Gharabaghi punches a code into his cell phone to
set off the biggest terrorist strike in US history, triggering
readers to ask, "What if?"
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