Basada en hechos reales, Las alas del aguila es una novela que ofrece emociones a raudales: la penetracion secreta en un pais peligroso y convulsionado, la dramatica fuga de una carcel y la azarosa huida hacia la frontera turca.

A finales de la decada de los 80, el sentimiento antinorteamericano afloraba en las calles del Teheran revolucionario de Jomeini, y los estadounidenses residentes eran forzados a abandonar el pais. Algunos, sin embargo, fueron detenidos sin acusaciones concretas y ante la impasividad de las autoridades. Frente a esta situacion, el multimillonario Ross Perot encarga a Bull Simons, coronel retirado de los Boinas Verdes y veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y de Vietnam, que rescate a dos importantes directivos de su compania injustamente encarcelados.

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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 heroes would have dared. . . .