Nir Tavor is an Israeli secret service operative turned talented Mossad agent.

Nicole le Roux is a model with a hidden skill.

A terrorist attack brings them together, and then work forces them apart—until they’re unexpectedly called back into each other’s lives.

But there’s no time for romance. As violent radicals threaten chaos across the Middle East, the two must work together to stop these extremists, pooling Nicole’s knack for technology and Nir’s adeptness with on-the-ground missions. Each heart-racing step of their operation gets them closer to the truth—and closer to danger.

In this thrilling first book in a new series, authors Amir Tsarfati and Steve Yohn draw on true events as well as tactical insights Amir learned from his time in the Israeli Defense Forces. For believers in God’s life-changing promises, Operation Joktan is a suspense-filled page-turner that illuminates the blessing Israel is to the world.

I am going to be honest. I wanted to read this book because of the title and the cover. The title intrgued me as did the cover art. They had a sense of international espionage. I was hoping to be taken too far off lands and it did not disappoint. The action starts off with a bang, literally. In the beginning the authors take us to a sort of origins story. The two heroes meet then we fast forward ten years were the two meet again as if by fate. Years later the two work together to stop a terrorist attack in one of the those far off lands I mentioned earlier.

The beginning of the book was a little tough to get into just because I felt like the authors were trying too hard to show the reader their knowledge of weapons but if you can get through that, the rest of the novel is fast paced and take the reader to the location of one of the world’s most glamorous races. (For me this was a huge plus because I’ve been a F1 fan since the great Michael Schumacher)

This is a Christian thriller but there wasn’t a lot of Spirituality in Operation Joktan but what there was felt natural as if the authors were intentional. One of the main characters come to faith off screen and accepts Jesus as their savor and we learn about their conversion mid way through the book and we don’t hear much of it until the end which works considering the team is on a deadly mission doing their jobs.

Over all I liked Operation Joktan and would recommend you Invest In The Hardcover.

Thank you and God Bless.

• Author: Amir Tsafati and Steve Yohn
• Pages: 368 Paperback
• Series: A Nir Tavor Mossad Thriller
• CIA Review Rating: Invest in the Hardcover