The Twelfth Imam · Book 2
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.
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