Demetri Sevastopulo

El veterano corresponsal del New York Times Stephen Kinzer recrea el golpe de estado que dio la CIA en Irán en 1953, por el que se expulsó al primer ministro elegido, puso en bandeja un cuarto de siglo de represión brutal por parte del Sha repuesto en el trono y estimuló el incremento del fundamentalismo islámico y del antinorteamericanismo en Oriente Próximo. Hace una reconstrucción de thriller, hora a hora, del golpe de estado orquestado por norteamericanos y británicos en agosto de 1953 que acabó restaurando en el trono a Mahammad Reza Sha, permitiéndole imponer una tiranía que acabaría por encender la chispa de la Revolución Islámica de 1979, que inspiraría a fundamentalistas en todo el mundo islámico, incluido los talibanes y los terroristas que prosperaron a su amparo. Elegido como Notable Books of 2003, por The New York Times Book Review, Book World Raves of 2003 por el Washington Post Book World y Best Books of 2003 por The Economist.

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea. The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody stories of the ways his enemies and rival family members have perished at his command. One of the most knowledgeable journalists on modern Korea, Anna Fifield has exclusive access to Kim's inner circle: the aunt and uncle who posed as his parents while he was growing up in Switzerland, members of the entourage that accompanied Dennis Rodman on his quasi-ambassadorial visits with Kim, and the Japanese sushi chef whom Kim befriended and who was the first outsider to identify him as the inevitable successor to his father as supreme ruler. She has been able to create a captivating portrait of the oddest and most isolated political regime in the world, one that is broken yet able to summon a US president for peace talks, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Un; ridiculous but deadly, and a man of our times.