{"product_id":"2940169152555","title":"Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArmed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders-directors, producers, actors-traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect scenery and backdrops, the team succeeded in  contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran  without a single shot being fired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonio Mendez finally details the mind-bogglingly complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A true story of secret identities and international intrigue, \u003ci\u003eArgo\u003c\/i\u003e is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114097066224,"sku":"2940169152555","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169152555_p0.jpg?v=1763673971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169152555","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}