IranDate (ePub)

March, 2015. Whisked off in the middle of the night by a chopper takinghim to a secure underground command center in Tel Aviv, Israeli PrimeMinister Dov Dvir is brought up to speed on the greatest crisis ever facedby Israel. An email message sent by a Mossad agent, who has access to thehighest echelons of the Iranian regime, warns that an Iranian nuclear strikeagainst Israel will take place within forty eight hours, as a direct result of acoup by elite Iranian military units. When the Ayatollahs -fortified in abunker in the holy city of Qom - realize that all is lost, they will launchtheir nuclear warheads at Israel. Meanwhile, Sharon Parker, America's first female President, faces theultimate foreign policy acid test, as she strives to carve an historicimpression as the leader of the free world while determining the UnitedStates' best course of action in a crisis unequaled in magnitude to anysince the the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Israeli leadership faces hard questions: should they launch a counterstrikeagainst Iran based solely on the word of a solitary agent they'drecruited years before? Will the United States stand with Israel in takingaction? Can the Iranian missile launch be stopped? Is it possible to shootdown the Iranian missiles once they've been launched? Should the Israelipublic be alerted of the imminent danger at the risk of causing masshysteria?The central characters are thrust, practically against their will, into thebrewing crisis: Arnon, a former commander of an elite Israeli commandounit, who left the military after three of his men were killed in a trainingexercise; Kramer, the man who recruited the Iranian agent for Israel andlater quit the Mossad out of sheer frustration, is now, years later, calledback in for duty; Morteza, an Iranian student recruited by the IsraeliMossad years earlier, is now in charge of the computer systems for theIranian nuclear program; Hagar, a carefree young woman, who falls inlove with a nameless recluse camping in seclusion on a desert cliff topnear the Dead Sea; Shai, the leader of an Israeli commando unit, who issent on a nearly hopeless mission deep in the heart of Iran -as the clock ticks down to zero.