This book is Tom Lysaght's opus!

Author Tom Lysaght is well-known as the playwright of the “Heralds of the Covenant” performed at the Bahá’í World Congress in 1992. He is also the playwright of the dramatic monologues performed at the San Francisco Opera House for the 2012 Centenary Celebration of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s 1912 visit to that city. Lysaght has been a successful author and playwright for decades and this book, Persian Passion, is his opus. It is the first book in a trilogy and is centered on two real-life villains of 19th century Persia: Mahd Ulya of the Qajar Dynasty (wife of Muhammad Shah) and Haji Mirza Aqasi, Grand Vazir and arch-villain of Persia. The title alludes to the Passion of Christ as a parallel to the “passion” or suffering of the Báb, who is the Primal Point of this trilogy. Lysaght’s turn of the pen shows his literary training from Harvard. The chapters are brief, giving the flow of the narrative a quick pace, but this book has subtle literary allusions that will reward the careful reader.