{"product_id":"persia-2026-anne-chemla-9798253388198","title":"Persia 2026: Azadi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if the revolution happening right now in Iran became a thriller?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if it already did?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTehran. January 29, 2026. 10:12 PM.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Shirazi posts a photo on her rooftop. Hair blowing in the wind. No veil. One word as a caption: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eآزادی\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAzadi (Freedom)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree hours later, three knocks at the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive days later, her husband Amir receives an official death certificate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCause of death: cardiac arrest. Collective burial. Case closed.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe believes the paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis six-year-old daughter doesn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"She's not dead, Papa.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens next will keep you up at night.\u003cp\u003eAmir Shirazi is not a soldier. Not a spy. Not a hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's a freelance software engineer who pays his rent in crypto and climbs the stairs in a flickering hallway every night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut he knows how to code. He knows how to think. And he knows that somewhere in Tehran, a machine is running - not a government, not a religion, but a violent criminal organization that uses God as a pretext and fear as its only real language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo he takes apart a military drone on his kitchen table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe cracks its firmware in three weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then a message arrives on Telegram - bouncing between Cyprus and Tel Aviv - from someone who calls himself Shlomo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"We've been watching your tests. You know how to hack. You know how to fly. We can help you go further.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not your average thriller.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePERSIA 2026: AZADI\u003c\/b\u003e reads like a collaboration between John le Carré and a Die Hard screenwriter - with the soul of a human story at its center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has the pace of a great action film. The moral complexity of the best political thrillers. And the emotional depth of a novel about love, family, resistance and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what makes it truly unique is this: \u003c\/p\u003eThe cast of characters reads like a great ensemble film.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmir\u003c\/b\u003e - the engineer who becomes something else entirely, one drone flight at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara\u003c\/b\u003e - the woman who refused to be afraid of her own face, and paid the price for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeyla\u003c\/b\u003e - six years old, who never believed the death certificate, and was right all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShlomo\u003c\/b\u003e - the Israeli contact you will never see. Only a voice in an earpiece. Dry, precise, occasionally almost funny. \u003ci\u003e\"The drone is worth more than you are. For now.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAli and Hossein\u003c\/b\u003e - two brothers in uniform who pretend to follow orders while choosing, slowly and painfully, which side of history they want to be on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMina\u003c\/b\u003e - nineteen years old. She wanted to be an architect. She drew portraits in the margins of her notebooks. What they did to her in detention is never described directly. The whole novel carries it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaveh\u003c\/b\u003e - the man at the top. Villa in North Tehran. Red Porsche. Cocaine on the coffee table. The face of a regime that is not a theocracy. It is a mafia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis novel does not take political sides, but it is against a machine that uses religion as a pretext, poverty as a recruiting tool, and violence as its only real language.\u003cp\u003eIt gives you the inside view - how the IRGC really works, why a Basij militiaman finally drops his baton, why a regular army soldier hesitates before choosing, what Nowruz and Chaharshanbe Suri really mean to a people that refuses to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it shares with you the hopes, the joys, the fears and the grief of that people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoping for the best for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePERSIA 2026: AZADI - Book 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe dates are real. The facts are real. The characters are fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe line between them belongs to the reader.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Jacob Chemla\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAuthor of Hidden Gospel - The Ebionite scriptures, the Hidden Gospel Saga and The Testaments of the twelve Patriarchs. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Chemla,David Jacob Chemla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798253388198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Anne Chemla","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172564279551,"sku":"9798253388198","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/persia-2026-anne-chemla-9798253388198","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}