THE MAN IN THE MIRROR: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, REVOLUTION AND TREACHERY IN IRAN. Jerome, Carole. Toronto, Key Porter Books, 1987. 311pp, cloth. $22.95, ISBN 1-55013-048-X. CIP Adult/Secondary Reviewed by Joan McGrath Volume 16 Number 6 1988 November Canadian Journalist Carole Jerome tells the story of Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, foreign minister of Iran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, from an extraordinarily personal perspective. She and Sadegh were lovers, and through her relationship with this powerful, enigmatic man. Jerome learned about the personal struggles that shaped the policy-makers of that perilous time. Sadegh was a moderate revolted by the excesses of the Shah. He was working towards the new Iran, and unfortunately, he failed to see his mentor and father figure, the Ayatollah Khomelni, in his true colours. When he could no longer whole-heartedly support the monstrous state he had helped to create. Sadegh was arrested and tried as a traitor. Speaking in his own defense, Sadegh staled that although he accepted the charge of plotting to overthrow the government, he maintained his allegiance to the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Imam. He was executed by firing squad on September 16. 1982. The tangled political web of events in Iran can scarcely be reduced to any easily understood one-volume account. Nevertheless, this deeply felt story of a lost love and of a man who lived and died for the cause in which he believed is compellingly readable. Joan McGrath, Toronto Board of Education, Toronto, Ont.