In an age when particular sects of Islam certainly do seek to achieve the ultimate goal of world domination in the name of Allah, a book that seeks to understand the spiritual underbelly of such an event has hit the presses. I have been a fan of Joel C. Rosenberg for many years, and the fact that he saturates himself daily in the goings on of the Middle-Eastern world adds to the unintentionally prophetic plausibility of this, his most recent novel (check out his personal website sometime—the man is a genius).

Although Rosenberg himself is a born-again Christian, and all of his books angle from that direction, The Twelfth Imam does not even cover a thread of Christianity until the second half of the book. This fact alone drew me into the story, for Rosenberg displayed for me a glimpse of the Middle-Eastern world through the eyes of an Iranian Muslim.

The action and intrigue of this CIA thriller held my interest until the very last page, and I cannot wait until Rosenberg releases Part Two, The Tehran Initiative—which then leads to Part Three, Damascus Countdown.

As far as thrillers go, I think The Twelfth Imam is top notch. And as I have found in all of Rosenberg’s novels, it is so refreshing to put up an action-packed novel that not only teaches us about life and faith, it does so without the filth that most fiction-lovers have come to expect.

Keep up to date with Rosenberg either on his blog oh his super-informative AllIsrael.c0m

© 2011 E.T.

Read More from Joel Rosenberg:

• The Last Jihad:
  The Last Jihad (2002)
  The Last Days (2003)
  The Ezekiel Option (2006)
  The Copper Scroll (2006)
  Dead Heat (2008)
• Nonfiction:
  Inside the Revolution (2009)
• David Shirazi: 
  The Twelfth Imam (2010)
  The Tehran Initiative (2011)
  Damascus Countdown (2013)
• Non Series:
  The Auschwitz Escape (2014)
• Marcus Ryker: 
  The Kremlin Conspiracy (2018)
  The Persian Gamble (2019)