George C. Chesbro - Mongo - 02 - City Of Whispering Stone.epub

Synopsis

Dr. Robert Frederickson, the dwarf detective and professor of criminology known as Mongo, is back, dealing in a tangled game of international politics with SAVAK, the dreaded secret police of the Shah of Iran.

It all starts when Mongo is hired to find Khordad, a missing Iranian strongman, and the only clue is a contact with another Iranian at the New York university where Mongo teaches. Following a twisted trail, he realizes that Khordad may be implicated in the murder of an anti-Shah student leader.

As Mongo becomes more deeply involved in the search for Khordad, his investigation results in the apparent death of the beautiful Iranian woman who had been his brother Garth's mistress. Bitter and heartbroken, Garth blames Mongo for Neptune's death, and the abiding relationship between the two brothers---detective and policeman---is severed. When Garth disappears in Iran, where he had gone for Neptune's funeral, Mongo, burdened with guilt, follows.

In Tehran, he starts to piece the complex puzzle together. Who really is the missing man, and who is behind him? What happened to the fiery anti-Shah revolutionary? What actually happened to Neptune? But first and foremost, is Garth still alive?

Becoming an unwitting pawn in a deadly game of power politics with his own life as well as Garth's now at stake, Mongo doggedly pursues the truth in a quest that takes him on a long and arduous trek across this historic country. In an explosive climax in Persepolis, the magnificent ancient city of the Persian Empire that has come to symbolize so much of Iran both past and present, Mongo uncovers the most stunning betrayal of all.

With the same skill he displayed in his first novel, Shadow of a Broken Man, George Chesbro has again turned his cool style to fashion a plot of stunning originality that is not only compelling reading but as timely as today's headlines.

---From the dustjacket of the Simon & Schuster edition