Phil MORRISON

They have ten days to tear an innocent woman from the gallows. After that, there's only a coffin - and a national humiliation. Mashhad, December 26. Élise Clermont, a French literature teacher, walks into a peaceful protest. Three days later she is buried in a prison in southern Iran, sentenced to death for espionage - a lie the regime intends to turn into a global spectacle. In Paris, the President makes a call France has never dared to make: no ransom, no negotiation.
One special-forces team, one night, a thirty-minute window, a thousand miles deep inside hostile territory. An operation that, if it succeeds, will never have happened - and if it fails, will cost far more than a single life. From the deserts of Khuzestan to the gilded halls of the Élysée, Operation Shahin is a razor-tight thriller of documentary precision and relentless tension, where every minute counts and silence is paid for in blood.