Book note: Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden

The author of Black Hawk Down spent several years researching the Iranian takeover of U.S. embassy in Tehran and the 444 day hostage ordeal that followed. The result is:


Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

Reuel Marc Gerecht has a review and commentary. ("Radical Islam's Eruption: Mark Bowden puts the Iranian hostage crisis in perspective," OpinionJournal, May 3, 2006)