“Age of Intolerance” by Peyman Pejman Book Review

About Peyman Pejman

Peyman Pejman is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years of experience. He has worked with respected newspapers, news agencies and radio stations such as The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cox Newspapers, The Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Pejman has extensive experience in the Middle East and the Arab world. His tenure in the Middle East has corresponded with important timelines in the region: the Iranian revolution, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Gulf Wars and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In addition to his journalistic career, he has been a media and communications professor and a media consultant/advisor/trainer.

The Review

by Tom via Goodreads

Sade Zaviesaz was born in Tehran to a middle class family. She went to public school and won scholarships to college. She had only one goal and that was to change her country. She went to Dubai for further schooling and there she met Jamal Johnny Mohammed. His father had a lot of money and he went to school in Geneva. After 1 year at Sandhurst he returned to Dubai and his father opened a PR firm for him. His sole client was the Emir of Dubai and that is who his father worked for.

Johnny met Sade in a mall and they hit it off very well. Sade met a man named Hajj Mohsen at Johnnys home. He was a high ranking member of the hawala who were money launderers. At this point they were just friends but soon he would need Sade and she would need someone to move money around.

After a few years in Dubai a fellow Sade went to school in Tehran, got into politics, and became president. The only problem was he wasn’t qualified and he knew it but he also knew Sade was so he called her to come work for him. Sade’s plan to help her country was now in full swing.

The next person in her plan was one Hashem Hashimoto His mother was Chinese and his father an Arab. Her brother was a Chinese General who she hadn’t seen for years. Sade arranged a vacation for them, she wanted to meet the General. He was in a position to get her all kinds of arms and plans for missiles. She offered him 5,000,000.00 which he agreed to. They were smuggled into Iran for use against Israel and the US.

I thought that this book was worth reading to see how a girl from a country that has no womens rights was able to manipulate so many men.

4 Stars

About Age of Intolerance

Age of Intolerance is both an espionage thriller tackling a serious and newsworthy current affairs topic and heart-warming saga of a relationship between estranged brother and sister, each having pledged allegiance to a political master bent on defeating the other.

Charles Shahin is a American journalist of Iranian descent whom the Central Intelligence Agency convinces to become a spy, skirting a long-held tradition that spy agencies not recruit reporters. Pretending to be a reporter for a US-based Internet newsgathering site, Shahin settles in sleepy Cyprus, long the center of spies and money launderers dealing with or keeping an eye on the Middle East.

While in Cyprus, Shahin gets wind of an Iranian plan to destabilize the Persian Gulf and purchase Chinese military secrets to build nuclear technology capable of hitting the United States and Israel. The plot was hatched by none other than his long-lost sister, now a ranking official in Iran.

Despite repeated warning, CIA bosses fail to mount a coherent strategy. What occupies Washington’s mind more is a spate of domestic acts of terrorism. Careful examination reveals the existence of a fanatic religious group inside the United States, bred and funded by none other than Washington’s best ally in the Arab world: Saudi Arabia. The Saudi goal: to “export” its internal “troubles” and force America to pick a fight with a common enemy: Iran.

Convinced an Iranian attack is imminent, Shahin and his wife — a Saudi princess — try to stop it, knowing US government bureaucracy is fractured and reaching a consensus might take too long.

Help comes from an unlikely ally, which, no doubt, has its own political ambitions, and its card to play.