The Academy - by Patrick Bet-David (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

When high school dropout Ashur Yonan receives an unexpected invitation to join a shadowy organization known as the Academy, he is plunged into an ancient conspiracy that threatens the entire world.

Ashur Yonan is going nowhere fast: an eighteen-year-old high school dropout living with a mom who doesn't understand him, mourning the death of his father five years earlier and working a dead-end food service job. The only good thing he has going for him is his girlfriend Kiki, but she's leaving soon for college on the East Coast. It's getting harder for Ashur to believe he still has the potential to make something great out of his life.

But after meeting with a mysterious stranger at his father's gravesite, strange things begin to happen. A representative from a shadowy organization known as the Academy comes to Ashur with an offer to join their latest recruiting class. Wary, but out of options, Ashur accepts--and enters a world of incredible new technology, cutthroat competition, and secrets that slowly begin to reveal themselves as he navigates his place at the Academy.

As Ashur pushes to learn more about the Academy, he also begins to uncover secrets about his own past, including a family history that traces back to the fall of the Shah during the Iranian Revolution, and a host of strange circumstances surrounding his father's death. Will he be able to learn the truth in time to save himself...and the world?

About the Author

Patrick Bet-David is a serial entrepreneur and #1 Wall Street Journal Best Seller of Your Next Five Moves. He is the founder of Valuetainment network and the host of The PBD Podcast, which collectively garners more than three billion views worldwide across all platforms. He fled war-torn Iran with his family at the age of ten and moved to California after two years at a refugee camp in Germany. With few options after barely graduating high school, Bet-David served in the US Army's 101st Airborne. Bet-David's unique life experience was the inspiration for The Academy. Bet-David lives in South Florida with his wife, four children, and two Shih Tzus.