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...hero is a Finnish boy named Michael who sails aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel wound around his head. The reader is carried along with Michael's story by a trick of suspense that is original, if nothing else: When, where & how will the hero have to submit to the Mohammedan rite of circumcision...
...green lawn of his waterfront home near the refinery, K.B. waved one more goodbye to his boys, a glass of Scotch held firmly in his hand as the ship steamed by. "Mossadeq," he said bitterly, "has not only dug Persia's grave, but he's thrown the Iranians into...
Cracked one U.S. newsman: "I now have my lead: 'Persia expects every Englishman to do his duty...
COPS WAITING FOR ME STOP SEE YOU SOON. The Express broke open its last edition to splash a bannerline across Page One: PERSIA EXPELS DELMER...
...Article Six provides: if a third party should use Persia as a base of operations against Russia, "the U.S.S.R. shall have the right to advance its troops into the Persian interior...