The Twelfth Imam (5 books in series)
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review 1: When I started this book, I wondered to myself how it could be the "thriller" that so many were calling it. I wasn't at all sure that I was riveted to the story, though I enjoyed how things were written and thought the characters were well developed. When it came down to the ma...
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review 1: This is a quirky book. On the one hand I enjoyed it as a Tom Clancy type action thriller with insider information about the CIA and Iran. There were supernatural-appearing elements at the first that I expected to be explained in a natural fashion at a later point in the novel. Ho...
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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 e...
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review 1: The Twelfth Imam is the first in a series of new books by noted author Joel Rosenberg, whose previous works were also geopolitical thrillers and prophetic in scope. In this book, he introduces David Shirazi, a CIA operative, who is sent undercover into Iran to discover more abou...
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review 1: Having read the reviews I wrote for the first two books in this series, they seem to go the same way for me. I think it's way too wordy and then the end is just a rip-roaring good time. Same here. David remains at the center of the action, in and out of many an improbable and unl...