NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A frighteningly prescient look at Iran's unchecked growth as a hidden superpower, and the threat the nation will soon pose to the United States -- and the world.

"The most important book on the Middle East to appear in many years" -- Thomas Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Intelligence Wars

As ex-CIA operative Robert Baer masterfully shows in The Devil We Know, Iran has maneuvered itself into the elite superpower ranks by exploiting Americans' false perceptions of what Iran is -- by letting us believe it is a country run by scowling religious fanatics, too preoccupied with theocratic jostling and terrorist agendas to strengthen its political and economic foundations.

The reality is much more frightening.

Baer mixes on-the-ground sleuthing and interviews with key players to demonstrate that Iran, far from being a wild-eyed rogue state, is a rational actor -- one skilled in the game of nations and ruthlessly effective at thwarting Western colonialism. For U.S. policy makers, the choices have narrowed: either cede the world's most important energy corridors to a nation that can match us militarily with its asymmetric capabilities (which include the use of suicide bombers) -- or deal with the devil we know. The alternative -- to continue goading Iran into establishing hegemony over the Muslim world -- is too chilling to contemplate.

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• Publication Date: September 23, 2008
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