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she had been in to the city that had the

Fabrika

cafe on

Egnate



Ninoshvili

Street with the corner table, which was the table where she had placed a drive without pushing it. She had gone back to the table. She had sat in it. She had ordered the coffee.

She works in an archive.

Not the

Rahmani

archive, which is now in a different kind of custody than a drive in a safe house, which is the custody of the people it was designed for and who are using it for what it was designed for. She works in a different archive. It is an archive of the transition, which is the archive of the three years of specific difficulty and what came out of the other side of the difficulty. She is building it from the records that exist and the records that do not yet exist, which is the interview record, which is the record of the people who were in the conditions describing what they built and why.

She has been building it for a year.

She does not have a sixth reading of her father's letter. She has a seventh and an eighth. The eighth reading was in March, on the anniversary, at the kitchen table in the Tbilisi apartment with the tea her father had liked, which she had found in a specific shop near the

Narikala

fortress and which she made on the anniversary in the way he made it, which was: the tea first, then the water, not the other way.

H

e would have wanted to k

now what the archive will hold. H

e probably already knew.

* * *

The bookshop is in Lisbon.

This is the city after Nicosia and after a second city that was between Nicosia and Lisbon that is not part of the account because the account of that city is the account of the letters being delivered and the letters being delivered is not a story that belongs to the person who delivered them. It belongs to the people who received them.

The bookshop is on the

Rua

do

Alecrim

, which is a street in the

Chiado

district that goes down to the Tagus in a series of cobbled descents that Elias has learned over three years, which is the learning of a person who has decided to be in a place rather than passing through it. The shop has a front room and a back room and a section for Portuguese literature and a section for history and a section that is technically European history but is practically the history of everywhere that ever had a reason to need a bookshop to hold it.

He keeps the chair behind the counter.

He has been in the shop for three years, which is the time since

Lior

said: the mechanism is complete, the transition is under way,

the

letters have been delivered, the architecture is running, you have done what y

ou came here to do. He had said, ‘

yes.

’ He had not said,



‘and now what

He had known

‘

and now what

’

because

Attard

had said, in the Merchants Street shop in Valletta in 2026, before all of it: you can always come back to the books.

He had come to the books.

He reads in the morning before the shop opens, which is the specific hour that belongs entirely to the reading, which is the hour he has been protecting since Lisbon in the specific way of a person who has learned what belongs to them and has kept it.

The Via del

Babuino

books are on the shelf behind the counter. He took them from the Valletta safe house the morning he left. They are in Italian and they are the specific Italian of a specific period and reading them is the reading that requires the kind of attention that produces the kind of quiet that is a room being entirely itself. He reads them slowly. He has three left.

He wraps books the way he learned in Lisbon, which is the way with the paper folded at the corners so that the corners are sharp and the fold does not crease the cover.

* * *

The young man came in on a Thursday afternoon.

He came in the way customers came in who were looking for something specific, which was the coming-in of a person with a task rather than a browser, which Elias had learned to recognize across three years of the chair behind the counter. The young man looked at the history section. He looked at the European section. He looked at the counter.

‘

I am looking for a book about the Iran War

’

.

‘W

hic

h war do you mean?



There

were several.

’

The youn

g man looked confused. He said, ‘

the first one. The one that started everything.

’

Elias went to the shelf without hesitating.

He had a specific section for the region, which was neither the European section nor a section that had a clear label, because the region did not label clearly and the books that tried to label it clearly were usually the books that understood it least. The section was between the shelf marked contemporary history and the shelf marked political theory, which was where the region had always been, which was: between the

history

that was still happening and the theory that had not caught up.

He found the book. It was a medium weight. It was the book that started with the right question rather than the right answer, which was the criterion he used for the books he kept in the section, which was: does it start from what was actually happening to the people who were actually there.

He brought it to the counter.

He wrapped it. The young man watched him wrap it, which was the watching of someone who had not seen a book wrapped this way and who was watching the specific economy of the corners, the fold that did not crease the cover.

He handed it over.

The young man paid. He said thank you,

went to

the door, and

went out into the street.

Elias watched the door close.

He watched the door for a moment after it had closed, which was the watching that was not at the door but at the street beyond the glass, which was the ordinary street. He thought about the young man walking into it with the book under his arm and asking at the next shop what the first Iran War was and the next person having a different answer and the young man deciding which answer was true.

He thought,

the accounts will be wrong about some things.

A

ll accounts are wrong about some th

ings. T

he thing the account owed was the honest version, which was the version that included the

Ozcans

and the corridors and the grocery delivery man and the seven-minute conversations and a woman who held a cup in

Çankaya

and thought: the cup is real.

He thought the account was somewhere. It was in a notebook in a city that could not be specified, on the walls of a parliament in Tehran, in a seminar on Arendt in Shiraz on Thursday mornings, and in a plant that was watered on no particular day of the week. The horizon had no memory because the horizon was always what lay ahead.

The memory was what you carried across it.

He went back to his chair.

He picked up his book. He found his page.

Outside, the street was ordinary. A bus passed. Someone was walking fast somewhere important. A child looked into the shop window and decided there was nothing interesting and kept walking.

Elias read.

He turned a page.

THE SHAHEEN CHRONICLES

B

ook One: The Istanbul Protocol -

The operation that started everything. The Istanbul meeting. The mechanism's first activation.

Book

Two: The Horizon Has No Memory -

The second operation. The managed disclosure. The transition.

Book Three: The A

rchitecture of What Comes Next -

The transition's first year. The parliament. The archive. The bookshop in Lisbon.

The series is a single work in three volumes.

Each volume stands alone. Together they are the full account.

A PREVIEW OF BOOK THREE

Two years later.

The framework agreement was signed in Geneva on a Tuesday.

Nobody called it a peace treaty. Both sides needed to say they had not surrendered. The document ran to forty-one pages. It contained the word framework eleven times and the word permanent zero times. Three senior diplomats from three countries signed it in a room that did not appear on any official schedule, and then they flew home to cities that were already calling it something else: a ceasefire, a normalization, a new chapter. The words changed depending on which side of which border you were standing on.

Iran had a parliament. Forty-one years after the revolution, eleven months after

Ayatollah

’s

death, the IRGC formally subordinated to civilian oversight for the first time since 1979. In Shiraz, a woman named

Farideh



Nazari

was teaching political theory to third-year students who had grown up under a government that no longer existed. In Tehran, a 22-year-old parliamentarian named Yousef was working on an agricultural subsidies bill that he believed, with complete sincerity, was the most important legislation currently before the chamber.

In a coastal city in southern Europe, a man who had not used his real name in eight years was arranging the shelves of a new bookshop. Same arrangement as the last one. Same arrangement as the one before that. Some things are not habit. They are identity.

The phone on the counter had not rung in fourteen months.

He was beginning to believe it might not ring again.



He was wrong.

* * *

She had been in the basement for two years.

Not the same basement. She was too careful for the same basement. Four locations across three countries, each one chosen for the same reason: overlooked. Not hidden. Overlooked. There is a difference and the difference is everything in this work. Hidden things get found. Overlooked things simply do not get looked at.

Colonel Sara Tehrani, 47, former IRGC Quds Force, had read every post-mortem report on

Rahmani's

operation seventeen times. She knew exactly how he was found. She knew the six decisions he made that he should not have made, and the four vulnerabilities he

had accepted because his timeline was compressed by his cancer and his grief and his willingness to die before the operation completed.

She was not dying.

She was not sentimental.

She had two years of patience and a target that made

Rahmani's

operation look like a warning shot. He had wanted to close one strait. She understood, in a way he never had time to, that closing one strait was a message. What she was building was not a message.

It was an ending.

On the wall in front of her: not a map of the Strait of Hormuz. A map of something larger. Something that ran beneath every ocean on earth. Something that no government had ever successfully defended because no government had ever truly believed anyone would try.

S

h

e looked at the map for a long time.

Then she picked up the phone and said one word to the man on the other end.

* * *

Lyla

Harrington found the signature at 3 AM.

She almost missed it. It was designed to be missed. Whoever built it had studied every detection method her former employer used, and several they did not know existed, and had routed the signal through seventeen handoff points across nine countries before it surfaced in the feed she was watching in a room that did not have a name, for an organization that did not have a public existence, on a night when the rest of the world was asleep and convinced the war was over.

She stared at the screen. She pulled the thread.

What she found at the end of it made her sit completely still for four minutes. She counted the minutes because her mind needed something to count while it processed what she was looking at. On the fifth minute she picked up the phone.

She called the one person who needed to know this before anyone else.

The phone rang four times. Then he picked up.

‘

I found something.

’

‘How bad?’

She told him in two sentences. There was a silence on the line that lasted eleven seconds. She counted those too.

‘

How long do we have?

’

‘

Twenty-one days. Maybe less.

’

‘

That is not enough time.

’

‘

I know.

’

‘

We are going to do it anyway.

’

‘

Yes.

’

‘

Where are you?

’

She told him. He said he would be there in nine hours.

‘

Elias.

’

‘What?’

‘

This is the last one.

’

He was quiet for a moment. Then he said,

‘

Yes.

’

He said it the way a person says something they have been waiting to say for a long time and are not yet sure they believe.

He believed it this time.

He was almost right.

* * *

In Geneva, the diplomats were still congratulating each other on the framework agreement that nobody was calling a peace treaty.

In the Mediterranean, at a depth of forty meters, something that had been placed on an undersea data cable three months ago was waiting for a signal that had not yet been sent.

In Ankara, a tea house that had been operating for one hundred and forty years was open for the morning. The same man had been making tea there for twenty-two years. He did not know that in eleven days, two women who had never met would sit in his tea house across three tables from each other, and that what one of them said to the other over the course of three days would determine whether the global economy survived the week.

He made the tea. He opened the shutters. He waited for the first customer of the day.

The world continued. For now.

BOOK THREE

SHAHEEN

The Iran War: Operation Epic Fury

Khamenei Files &

The



Soleimani

Effect

The devices are already in the water.

The clock is already running.

And the most dangerous person alive is sitting in a tea house in Ankara,

waiting

for someone who is not afraid of her.

Available now.

The

Soleimani

Effect concludes in Book Three.

THE SOLEIMANI EFFECT

THE SHAHEEN

Book One: The War America Started. The Fire No One Can Stop.

Book Two: They Killed the General. Now the World Pays.

Book Three: The Iran War

.

Operation Epic Fury

.

Khamenei Files &

The



Soleimani

Effect

.

REVIEW REQUEST

Dear Reader,

You finished the book. That means more to me than you know.

THE SOLEIMANI EFFECT was not an easy story to write. It is not an easy story to read. It is the war the world is living right now, told through the people history forgets to name

,

the analyst whose report was buried, the young woman used as a weapon without knowing it, the retired operative who could not stop being who he was trained to be.

If this story stayed with you

,

if you found yourself thinking about Elias, or

Farideh

, or Yousef, or

Lyla

in the hours after you put it down

,

I am asking you for one thing.

Leave a review.

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Thank you for reading. Thank you for staying until the last page. Thank you for being the kind of reader this book was written for.

With gratitude,

Jaden Akin

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This novel required understanding real events that are still unfolding, operations that are still classified, and the interior lives of people who will never speak publicly about what they did. Where the record was available, I used it. Where it was not, I used the knowledge of how these institutions work, how the people who serve them think, and what the specific moral texture of this kind of work produces in the people who do it.

Every analyst who filed a report that was buried. Every officer who made a decision without authorization because the authorization chain was too slow. Every asset who was left behind. Every pharmacist who opened the door at 7 AM. This is for the work you did that will not be in the files.

The

Shaheen

series

would not exist without the foundational work of YP

N

Interna

tional LLC,

whose editorial standards and commitment to authentic human voice made this series possible.

The events in this novel are drawn from public record. The intelligence assessments, the operational decisions, the geopolitical

model,

these are as accurate as an unclassified account can be. The mistakes are mine.

The files will be unsealed in 2076. I look forward to being wrong about the things I got wrong.



Jaden Akin

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jaden Akin is an international bestselling author whose work explores the choices, ambitions, and moral dilemmas that shape the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. His stories dive deep into family, community, and the often-unseen pressures that define who we become, capturing the tension between personal dreams and responsibilities to those we love.

Akin’s storytelling is rooted in authenticity, drawing from the

real-life

experiences

, challenges, and triumphs of life

across the world

. He examines how ambition, loyalty, and greed can collide, how love and sacrifice are weighed against opportunity, and how small decisions ripple into transformative consequences. What sets his work apart is the way it intertwines heart, realism, and suspense, creating narratives that feel intensely familiar yet impossible to put down.

He writes from different parts of the world, observing the patterns, choices, and social dynamics that influence daily life. Through his work, readers are invited to reflect on their own decisions, the boundaries of loyalty, and the courage required to pursue a future without abandoning the people who depend on them.