The Tehran Initiative
- Published
- 18 October 2011
- Pages
- 462
- ISBN-13
- 9781414319353
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Tehran Initiative followed almost exactly a year after The Twelfth Imam, in October 2011, continuing CIA officer David Shirazi's undercover operation inside Iran's telecommunications sector at 462 pages. Joel C. Rosenberg keeps pairing conventional espionage-thriller plotting -- double agents, centrifuge facilities, assassination attempts -- with prophecy-driven stakes drawn from Iranian eschatology, ahead of the trilogy's conclusion in Damascus Countdown.
Key facts about The Tehran Initiative
Joel C. Rosenberg wrote The Tehran Initiative, a novel on our list. It has been out since 18 October 2011. The book has 462 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781414319353 to find the main one.
The Tehran Initiative is book 2 of 3 in The Twelfth Imam series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with The Twelfth Imam (2010). Damascus Countdown is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 5 March 2013.
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
The Tehran Initiative is book 2 in the The Twelfth Imam series. It follows The Twelfth Imam. It is followed by Damascus Countdown. 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 9781414319353