The Priest and the King

"Captures with a wonderful sense of immediacy the excitement and bewilderment of those days." --Gary Sick, editor, The Persian Gulf in the New Millennium "[An] extraordinary and riveting diary of events that led to the Shah's overthrow...Harney conveys superbly the ups and downs, the rumours and speculations, the paranoia...as the old order was undermined." --William Shawcross, The Sunday Times (London) "Captures with a wonderful sense of immediacy the excitement and bewilderment of those days." --Gary Sick, editor, The Persian Gulf in the New Millennium "[An] extraordinary and riveting diary of events that led to the Shah's overthrow...Harney conveys superbly the ups and downs, the rumours and speculations, the paranoia...as the old order was undermined." --William Shawcross, The Sunday Times (London) "Captures with a wonderful sense of immediacy the excitement and bewilderment of those days." -Gary Sick, editor, "The Persian Gulf in the New Millennium" "[An] extraordinary and riveting diary of events that led to the Shah's overthrow...Harney conveys superbly the ups and downs, the rumours and speculations, the paranoia...as the old order was undermined." -William Shawcross, "The Sunday Times" (London) 0;Captures with a wonderful sense of immediacy the excitement and bewilderment of those days.1; 2;Gary Sick, editor, "The Persian Gulf in the New Millennium" 0;[An] extraordinary and riveting diary of events that led to the Shah's overthrow...Harney conveys superbly the ups and downs, the rumours and speculations, the paranoia...as the old order was undermined.1; 2;William Shawcross, "The Sunday Times" (London) " Captures with a wonderful sense of immediacy the excitement and bewilderment of those days." -- Gary Sick, editor, "The Persian Gulf in the New Millennium" " [An] extraordinary and riveting diary of events that led to the Shah's overthrow...Harney conveys superbly the ups and downs, the rumours and speculations, the paranoia...as the old order was undermined." -- William Shawcross, "The Sunday Times" (London)