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The Twelfth Imam · Book 3

Damascus Countdown

by Joel C. Rosenberg
Published
5 March 2013
Pages
478
ISBN-13
9781414319711
Type
novel
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About this book

Damascus Countdown closes the trilogy in March 2013, arriving nearly a year and a half after book two to bring the three-book countdown to its climax.

Key facts about Damascus Countdown

Joel C. Rosenberg wrote Damascus Countdown, a novel on our list. It has been out since 5 March 2013. The book has 478 pages.

We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781414319711 to find the main one.

Damascus Countdown is book 3 of 3 in The Twelfth Imam series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with The Twelfth Imam (2010). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.

Additionally, Joel C. Rosenberg writes The Last Jihad, J.B. Collins and Marcus Ryker as separate series. Those series sit on our political thriller shelf. Meanwhile, The Beijing Betrayal is the latest published Joel C. Rosenberg book on file, from 11 March 2025.

About Joel C. Rosenberg

Joel C. Rosenberg is an American-Israeli evangelical Christian author, born in 1967, who writes political thrillers set against the geopolitics of the modern Middle East. See every Joel C. Rosenberg book in order.

Its place in The Twelfth Imam

Damascus Countdown is book 3 in the The Twelfth Imam series. It follows The Tehran Initiative. See the full The Twelfth Imam reading order.

Rosenberg's second series moves its cast and its central premise from the Israeli-Palestinian-focused Last Jihad books to Iran. David Shirazi is a CIA officer working undercover inside Iran's telecommunications sector as the regime races toward a nuclear weapon while its Twelver Shia leadership publicly anticipates the imminent return of the Mahdi (the "Twelfth Imam") -- a messianic figure whose arrival, in the series' reading of Iranian eschatology, is meant to be hastened by regional chaos and war with Israel…

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