Pushing Back the Desert: Operation Ajax

A historically accurate work of fiction. This is the first book in the Zuckerman's 2nd trilogy.

During the turbulent late 1950s (Eisenhower Era), the New Sentinels are called upon to reveal a hidden plot (Operation Ajax) to topple Iran's Parliamentary Government, reinstate the exiled Shah, and take over Iran's oil industry, the fourth-largest in the world.

When British and American oil interests secretly orchestrate a coup to seize control of Iran's oil fields in 1953, a small group of humani...