It’s this intriguing story that apparently provided the inspiration for Sean Hardie’s similar wrong place, wrong time hostage drama which takes place in an unknown war zone somewhere in Europe.
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The Life of Wiley, Oran Mor, Glasgow
When revolutionary Iranian students overran and occupied the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979, among the US citizens taken hostage was a drug dealer who more than most would have had cause to wonder what sort of reception he would receive back home when their release was eventually negotiated 444 days later.
