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.
Key facts about The Twelfth Imam
The Twelfth Imam is a novel by Joel C. Rosenberg. Readers have had it since 19 October 2010. It runs to 490 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Twelfth Imam. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781414311630 to find the main one.
The Twelfth Imam is book 1 of 3 in The Twelfth Imam series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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 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