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The Twelfth Imam

Copyright © 2010 by Joel C. Rosenberg. All rights reserved.

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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rosenberg, Joel C., date.

The twelfth Imam / Joel C. Rosenberg.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4143-1163-0

1. Intelligence officers—United States—Fiction. 2. Nuclear warfare—Prevention—Fiction. 3. Iran—Fiction. 4. Middle East—Fiction. 5. Prophecy—Islam—Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: 12th Imam.

PS3618.O832T84 2010

813´.6—dc22 2010030082

ISBN 978-1-4143-3977-1 (International Trade Paper Edition)