The Twelfth Imam · Book 1
The Twelfth Imam
- Published
- 19 October 2010
- Pages
- 490
- ISBN-13
- 9781414311630
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Twelfth Imam opens Joel C. Rosenberg's trilogy in October 2010 at 490 pages, sending CIA officer David Shirazi undercover inside Iran's telecommunications sector as the regime races toward a nuclear weapon.
Its place in The Twelfth Imam
The Twelfth Imam is book 1 in the The Twelfth Imam series. It is followed by 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 9781414311630
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781414345987