CHAPTER THIRTY SIX
December 15
5:05 a.m. (9:05 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on December 14)
Jameh Mosque of the Believers
Tehran, Iran
It was a cold morning, the pale sun just beginning to rise over the city.
The morning call to prayer echoed from loudspeakers throughout the city. Three women draped in conservative Islamic dress, their heads and faces covered, moved slowly through the alleys and narrow streets, the masculine, but high nasal call of the muezzin everywhere at once.
Two of the women were quite tall, unusually so for women. The third was a giant among men or women—tall, strikingly broad, from a lost race of dark Amazons. Chewbacca in a burqa.
From under one of the gowns, Luke glanced up at the small speaker mounted on a wooden pole above his head. The sound of the call t
