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The Tehran Initiative (2011)

by Joel C. Rosenberg(Favorite Author)

4.28 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1414319355 (ISBN13: 9781414319353)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Tyndale House Publishers

series

The Twelfth Imam

review 1: This book starts fairly slow with the author working recaps of book one in the series throughout the narrative. As a result, Rosenberg doesn't really hit his stride until about a hundred pages in. From that point on, however, I couldn't put the book down. It has all the classic elements of a spy story. The protagonist, David Shirazi, is operating amid the backdrop of war between Iran, led by the twelfth Imam, and Israel. Along with the international intrigue, Rosenberg also includes the spiritual. His characters, through flawed and imperfect, live their faith in a way that is believable and practical. This book is easily as good as the first book in the series (The Twelfth Imam) and I am looking forward to the final book of the trilogy.
review 2: I realize that... more as the second book in a series there will be a bit of repetitive material so that a person could follow along without having read the first, but this was way too much. I finished it and will read the next so that I have closure on the whole story - which is really interesting - but I will be doing a lot of skimming through sections. The first book was so much better about just showing the story, characters, development, etc, while this one seemed to do so much overt telling that I was taken completely out of the narrative experience. less

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