On Wings of Eagles

ISBN-13:	9780451213099
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/07/2004
Edition description:	With 16 Pages of Photos
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	78,654
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.91(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . . When two of his employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, handpicked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true hero's would have dared. . . .