The Twelfth Imam · Book 3
Damascus Countdown
- Published
- 5 March 2013
- Pages
- 478
- ISBN-13
- 9781414319711
- Type
- novel
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.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781414319711
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781441826282