Is the Islamic Republic secretly preparing to join the Nuclear Powers Club in defiance of international sanctions? When an old friend commissions Mark McGill to contact an agent of the Iranian opposition he finds the man he is sent to meet murdered, his throat slit from ear to ear. Inexorably, Mark is entangled in the CIA's investigation of the assassination and its connection with Iran's clandestine uranium enrichment program. Sent to Iran as an undercover agent, Mark rapidly runs afoul of Hassan Javaheri, The Bloodthirsty Mullah. Will Mark's hair-raising, makeshift schemes enable him to escape Javaheri's relentless efforts to find and kill him?