“Swift, hard-boiled novel . . . Shadowy zealots exist everywhere, whether in conference rooms or interrogation rooms or—most often—in rooms that can serve as both.”
—New York Times Book Review

“Abdoh paints a gripping portrait of a nation awash in violence and crippled by corruption. . . . Captivating.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Abdoh . . . gives readers a visceral sense of life in a country where repression is the norm, someone is always watching, and your past is never really past. Recommended for espionage aficionados and for readers who enjoy international settings.”
—Library Journal

“A fascinating glimpse of contemporary Iran through the familiar story of childhood friends whose paths are beginning to diverge irreversibly.”
—Shelf Awareness

“A penetrating look into contemporary Tehran.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Salar Abdoh is an acute observer of the patterns, flaws, and simple beauties of everyday life . . . [Tehran at Twilight is] an unpretentious, cross-cultural political thriller that rings true in the way only a skillfully crafted novel can.”
—San Francisco Book Review

“Abdoh’s restraint with the brutality in present-day Iran in no way tamps down the adrenalin that keeps his characters in action . . . Goodness and mercy eventually carry the day, within limits, and this relatively new author may already have potential readers looking forward to his next novel.”
—The Buffalo News

“New history and a fresh take on the same old dirty tricks result in a clever and compelling tale.”
—The National (UAE)

“Abdoh is superb . . . Tehran at Twilight is an impressive work of fiction . . . Abdoh’s talent is obvious from the first scene in the story until the bittersweet end.”
—CounterPunch Magazine

“Abdoh’s Iran is a place where the question isn’t if one has been complicit, but rather the extent of one’s complicity.”
—What If Knits

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“Abdoh deftly captures the uneasy atmosphere of 2008 Tehran, swirling with betrayal and corruption.”
—Library Journal, Books for the Masses/Editors’ Picks BEA 2014

“Tehran at Twilight is a remarkable meditation on violence, and on all the ways one bears witness to pain . . . At the center lies the story of two friends whose paths have diverged, and of love restored between a mother and a son. A smart, eloquent novel.”
—Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz

“Connecting the dots of the shadow lives of Iranian, American, and Iranian American double and triple agents, and their double and triple stories in Iran and Manhattan, Baghdad and Berkeley, Abdoh also tells a tale of mothers and sons, using espionage for infrared insight into concealed identities. The startling truth embedded in this tight novel: We Are All Iranians.”
—Brad Gooch, author of City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara

“Tehran—bloated, capricious, corrupt, and with its various secret police agencies competing against one another—becomes a ripe setting for this roman noir . . . Move over Scandinavia: there’s a new kid on the noir block.”
—Hooman Majd, author of The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay

“A smart political thriller for our modern times.”
—Laila Lalami, author of Secret Son