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CHARLES ADDIS

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ROMANCE

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Inspired by a true-life adventure

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A story you’ll never forget

An adventurous romance that could not, should not, but did happen. This account of an undercover romance was written by a Mississippi author with a world of experience.

 

     Affair In Iran is a story of a young soldier's experience in the Middle East from 1953 to 1955, where he is given a high security assignment to Iran with the U.S. Army Attaché. 

      When he arrives in Teheran, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful Russian girl.  Because of his duty assignment, which necessitates the highest security clearance, he struggles to preclude involvement, but is hopelessly drawn into an affair that threatens to destroy his career.  The girl's father, an ex-Russian Cossack, distrusts Americans, which places further restrictions on the relationship.  Determined to marry, they find the unusual laws of the country and the recent revolution that established a curfew and martial law adds to the difficulty.

     Confronted with shocking religious and cultural differences that tears at his Southern Baptist teachings of morality,  he struggles with his conscience as well as his devotion to duty. 

      During a chancy courtship, they unwittingly take an Iranian soldier hostage, are taken prisoner by the Iranian Army, threatened by hijackers, become the target of a stoning, and are accosted by a group of desert horsemen. 

      It begins when he is forced to witness a public execution during a layover in Saudi Arabia. In Teheran he is confronted with rampant thievery, religious restrictions, confusing laws, and a wild social life.

     Amusement abounds when the young soldier makes a humorous attempt at skiing, confronts a prostitute who insists on befriending him, and becomes even funnier when he makes his first trip to a Persian public bath house.

     The story contains adult situations and language.

AFFAIR IN IRAN

Thanks for reading the synopsis.  As you can see, it is a unique story, more so because it was inspired by actual facts.  Because of this and the possibility of embarrassing or offending someone, the story was almost not written.  E-mail chasnina@cableone.net to learn more about it.

Meet The Author

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 Affair In Iran

     Affair In Iran opened the door to Mr. Addis’ talent for writing.  After that, he wrote many tableaus for Mardi Gras Krewes on the Mississippi Coast.  He not only wrote the tableaus, but as an accomplished speaker, he performed as Master of Ceremonies, reading the tableau as he thought it should be expressed. 

     Mr. Addis was born in Gainsville, Georgia, but moved to live with his grandparents in Habersham when he was nine years old.  He attended school in Clarksville, and moved to McAdenville, NC, when he was sixteen, to go to work in a cotton mill.  At the ripe old age of seventeen, he joined the U.S. Army.  After basic training in Ft. Jackson, SC, he was assigned to the Southeastern Signal School in Fort Gordon, GA, and after attending another military school in Carlisle Barracks, PA, was assigned to Japan, where he spent the next four years.  He learned to speak conversational Japanese before being reassigned back to the States, and subsequently to the U.S. Army Attaché in Teheran. 

     It was in Teheran that he met Nina, the daughter of Russian immigrants, who had escaped to Iran during the Russian Revolution.  The courtship that followed is the subject of the novel, Affair In Iran.

     After a couple of tours in Europe and one to Korea, Mr. Addis retired in 1969.  For a while he worked for his wife Nina, who owned and operated an antique and upholstery shop on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 

     Finally, in 1986 they both retired, bought a recreational vehicle, sold out everything and traveled for 9 years.  It was during this time that he decided to write.  His first writing, Affair In Iran,  was to be an autobiography, but embarrassment, among other things, persuaded him to rewrite it in the third person, changing the names.  You’ll understand why when you read it.

     The picture above is a recent photo.  The one below was taken while stationed in Teheran in 1954.  Mr, Addis says, “It reminds me of an old adage: ‘Your face in youth is God’s gift to you, and in old age it is your gift to God.’”

Mr. Addis did not get heavily into writing  until his second retirement in 1986.

     Another writing you might be interested in is Escape From Russia, a story based on his wife’s parents harrowing life during the Russian Revolution, and how they escaped to Iran - then called Persia - where his wife Nina was born.

     Then came Search For A Princess, a story about how Mr. Addis and his wife assisted her uncle to find a lady who claimed to be Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas.  They claim to have found her in the Black Forest in Bavaria, and was finally able to get her back to the U.S., where she lived out the rest of her life in Virginia.  Controversial, but a very interesting story.

Then came others...

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Charles Addis

 

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