If you have read the first three novellas (Isfahan, Shiraz, Fordo), you know the author as a master of psychological noir. He virtuoso-immersed us in the world of the Iranian atomic program, where love is measured in half-lives and family reunions take place in the crosshairs of intelligence services. It was prose of the highest caliber: smart, tragic, and hopelessly serious. But the concluding novella of the tetralogy, Operation “Stray Dog”, executes an unexpected pirouette
