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About the author:
David McCloskey is the author of the novels Damascus Station, Moscow X, and The Seventh
Floor, and is cohost of the podcast The Rest Is Classified. A former CIA analyst, he worked at
Langley and in field stations across the Middle East. He lives in Texas.
https://www.davidmccloskeybooks.com
Interviewed with Chaz on KVLF on 10-07-2025
About the book:
Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living out a dreary existence in Stockholm, agrees to spy for the Mossad after he’s recruited by Arik Glitzman, the chief of a clandestine unit tasked with running targeted assassinations and sabotage inside Iran. At Glitzman’s direction, Kam returns to his native Tehran and opens a dental practice there, using it as a cover for the Israeli intelligence agency. Kam proves to be a skillful asset, quietly earning money helping Glitzman smuggle weapons, run surveillance, and conduct kidnappings. But when Kam tries to recruit an Iranian widow seeking to avenge the death of her husband at the hands of the Mossad, the operation goes terribly wrong, landing him in prison under the watchful eye of a sadistic officer whom he knows only as the “General.”
And now, after enduring three years of torture in captivity, Kamran Esfahani sits in an interrogation room across from the General, preparing to write his final confession.
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