My brother's road : an American's fateful journey to Armenia
"What do 'Abu Sindi', 'Timothy Sean McCormack', 'Saro', and 'Commander Avo' all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and swimming in irrigation canals. Monte turned his back on Oxford University and a promising career as an archaeologist, and headed for the working-class slums of Tehran and the bomb-shattered streets of Beirut. He joined roadside prayers in Afghanistan, stood with rebels in Kurdistan and gritted his teeth through surgery without anesthesia in a Red Brigades safe house. He organized prison strikes, spurned the emissary of President George H.W
Print Book, English, 2005
I.B. Tauris, London, 2005