Old Teheran
Finding Hoseyn. By Colin MacKinnon. Century Hutchinson, 1987. 306 pp. $31.99.
Iran has become a fashionable setting for thrillers. This one is placed in 1977, on the eve of the overthrow of the Shah and the setting up of the lunatic regime of the religious fanatics. It stirs together Americans, Israelis, and Iranians of various political and religious persuasions in a scramble to discover if — and how — Iran may have produced a nuclear bomb. Unfortunately, MacKinnon knows plenty about Iran, and the finer shades of Islamic religion and poetry, but much less about how to craft a good story. MacKinnon is no John Le Carre, in spite of some fairly conscious echoes of “The Honourable Schoolboy.” Fine ideas get buried in a muddle of places and names, and the reader is left wondering who might have done what to whom, and why, in the alleys and bazaars of old Teheran.
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Press, 30 May 1987, Page 23
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