Ken Follett's novel "On the Wings of an Eagle" is written on a documentary basis, and this makes it more fascinating than the most sophisticated fiction of the leading masters of the "spy" genre. Tehran. The eve of the Islamic revolution. Hatred towards “infidel” foreigners is growing every minute, and now two employees of the American corporation, Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord, are arrested without any reason and sent to Tehran prison. Attempts to free the Americans through diplomatic means are not yielding any results. And then the head of the corporation makes a desperate decision - to kidnap Chiapparone and Gaylord from prison and secretly take them out of Iran with the help of the highly experienced “dog of war” Colonel Simons. The game with death begins...