{"product_id":"the-closing-window-gregg-roman-9798996755806","title":"The Closing Window","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does being right cost the people on the far end of it?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a thirty-nine-day war with Iran ends not in victory but in a fragile ceasefire, the Meridian Institute - a Washington policy shop that has spent years studying the Islamic Republic from a safe distance - crosses the line from analysis into action. With sixty days before a vote can make the peace binding, its analysts turn every tool they own against their own government's settlement, and reach into the dark toward three people who could change everything: a Revolutionary Guard colonel ordered to turn his weapons on his own city, a labor organizer who will not stop, and a nurse who has seen what the regime does to those who do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of them becomes a source. Each of them becomes a risk. And as the clock runs down, the men and women who recruited them must answer the question that haunts every act of conscience carried out from a safe room an ocean away: what does being right cost the people on the far end of it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaut, morally unflinching, and grounded in a startling command of how power actually works, \u003cem\u003eThe Closing Window\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary espionage thriller for readers of John le Carré, Alan Furst, Joseph Kanon, and Mick Herron. It is the fiction debut of Gregg Roman, a Middle East policy and security analyst who has spent more than a decade at the center of American debates over Iran.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A high-stakes thriller with a conscience - taut and morally unflinching. A rare story whose vital questions outlast its plot.\" - Jim Hanson, author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Win the Second Civil War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Le Carré's heirs are many; few earn the comparison. Roman does, and then some.\" - Dexter Van Zile, Editor, \u003cem\u003eFWI\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregg Roman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996755806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle East Forum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d","brand":"Gregg Roman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084254912767,"sku":"9798996755806","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-closing-window-gregg-roman-9798996755806","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}