Diamond's Compass

by P.H. Liotta

Dante Diamond, a troubled cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy, journeys to Iran during the Shah's final days and is caught up in the paranoia and intrigue of a collapsing dictatorship. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945575742
• ISBN13: 9780945575740
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Ancient Persia meets Air Force Academy discipline and youth.

This book is out-of-print and that fact is a sad commentary on the public's taste and publisher's motivations. A sensitive young man survives both a hard-line jet-jockey father and air force academy discipline to find himself on a lethal climb in Iran where his only guide may be in the service of the Shah's intelligence agents. There, abandoned and near death in a terrible blizzard, Dante Diamond hears the voices of ancient Persian Sufi poets and follows them off the mountain. This is a powerful first novel that can be enjoyed by anyone who understands, as did the Persians, that a man can be at once a warrior and a poet--and a better man than either.