The Persian Gamble (#02 in Marcus Ryker Series)

Joel C. Rosenberg

Hardcover

Description: The instant New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publishers Weekly bestseller!

Over 100,000 copies sold!

“Joel C. Rosenberg continues to mix his unique blend of prophetic fiction and nonstop action unlike anyone else working today.” —The Real Book Spy on The Persian Gamble.
“The plot is intriguing. The pace just keeps accelerating. A must read!” —Porter Goss, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency on The Persian Gamble.
In the follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Kremlin Conspiracy, Rosenberg’s latest international thriller tracks a terrifying nuclear alliance among three world powers―Russia, Iran, and North Korea―and the deadly mission former US Secret Service Agent Marcus Ryker must risk to halt their deadly strategy.

Shot out of the air in enemy territory in the middle of the greatest international crisis since the end of the Cold War, former U.S. Secret Service agent Marcus Ryker finds himself facing an impossible task. Not only does he have to somehow elude detection and capture by Russian special forces, but he must convince his own government to grant safe harbor to the one man responsible for the global mayhem―Russian double agent and assassin Oleg Kraskin. While frantically negotiating with his contacts in the White House, Marcus learns that the unstable North Korean regime plans to use the international chaos as a smokescreen to sell nuclear weapons to Iran. With the fate of the entire free world on the line, Marcus makes a deal with the U.S. government―he will go back to work as an international operative and track down the WMDs before they end up in the hands of those with the determination and the means to use them. Marcus and Oleg worked together once before to avert a world war. Can they now find a way to stop world destruction?

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About The Author: 

Joel C. Rosenberg is a New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels and five nonfiction books with nearly 5 million copies in print.

He has marked his place among today's top fact-based fiction authors, and U.S. News and World Report hailed him as a "modern-day Nostradamus." His newest novel, The Jerusalem Assassin, releases March 17.

Joel regularly speaks with leaders around the world about geopolitical and religious freedom issues. In the last two years alone, he has met face-to-face with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Jordanian King Abdullah II, Egyptian president el-Sisi, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, and the crown prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

His novels have been read by Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Pompeo, former President George W. Bush, former CIA director Porter Goss, former senior White House foreign policy advisor Jason Greenblatt, former Delta Force commander Jerry Boykin, Jordanian King Abdullah II, and dozens of members of the U.S. House and Senate, among other national and world leaders, generals, and intelligence officials.

He has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs in the U.S., Canada, and around the world and has been profiled by the New York Times, the Washington Times, and the Jerusalem Post.

A well-known evangelical in the U.S., he is the founder and chairman of The Joshua Fund, a nonprofit educational and humanitarian relief organization dedicated to educating and mobilizing Christians to "bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus, according to Genesis 12:1-3." New York Times Magazine recently called Joel "a powerful force in the evangelical movement."

Rosenberg is the grandson of Orthodox Jews who escaped czarist Russia in the early 1900s and comes from a Jewish background on his father's side and a Gentile background on his mother's side. He and his wife, Lynn, are dual U.S.-Israeli citizens. They made aliyah in 2014 and live with their sons in Jerusalem, Israel.

For more information, visit joelrosenberg.com.

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Pages: 448

Publication Date: March 2019