Ben and Danielle

5 total works

The Pillars of Solomon

by Jon Land

Published 1 March 1999

Ben Kamal hasn't investigated a case since his last assignment with Danielle. But missing children in his native West Bank rekindle his interest in his career, reminding him of his own lost children.

Danielle Barnea had put her career on hold as well, until a personal tragedy left her with nothing else to turn to. Her first case is the apparently random murder of a jerusalem shopkeeper who was also one of Israel's earliest war heroes.

What Ben and Danielle don't know, can't know, is that their separate investigations are linked by a secret borne of the blood that forged a nation. As decades of white slavery around the world bear their bitter fruit, the secret has the power to topple governments and explode the Middle East into a maelstrom of chaos and destruction.

To stop history from being rewritten, Ben and Danielle must follow a dangerous path to a truth that no one wants revealed and that someone has already killed to keep hidden behind the Pillars of Solomon.

The Last Prophecy

by Jon Land

Published 1 April 2004

1945: While liberating a concentration camp, an American medical unit uncovers something beneath a body-filled trench. Sixty years later, the survivors of that unit are systematically murdered because of what they saw. The present. Enter former Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and his Israeli counterpart Danielle Barnea. Working for the United Nations now Ben and Danielle return to the Middle East to investigate a massacre in a Palestinian village. They quickly uncover the fact that the roots of that massaore lie elsewhere, in another era on another continent. While Ben follows the trail of the shadowy force responsible, Danielle finds herself swept into a maelstrom where the past and the present collide, joined by an ancient text of prophecies that predicts a cataclysmic event about to strike the United States. The only way to prevent it is to decipher a cryptic message shrouded in secrecy and guarded by a secret army. As time ticks down, Ben and Danielle face off against a new and all-powerful enemy with its own crazed reasons for wanting America's very way-of-life destroyed. Their only hope: to use The Last Prophecy.

The Blue Widows

by Jon Land

Published 1 March 2003

In today's terrifying new world, in which small groups of individuals with unlimited resources can wreak incredible havoc and catastrophe, the task of stopping them becomes all the more urgent and compelling. Jon Land's latest topical thriller finds Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea facing just such a threat: an obsessed fanatic plotting nothing less than the total destruction of America.
Danielle, now the head of Israel's National Police, still relies on her Palestinian-American partner, detective Ben Kamal, currently working for a private security firm in Boston. When a raid on a terrorist hideout in Gaza yields flame-charred pages written in Arabic, she sends the document to Ben for his inspection. Shockingly, his translation reveals that the pages are actually a "fatwa," a religious edict, granting permission to bring about a biblical prophecy known as the End of All Things.
Layla Aziz Rahani, embattled daughter of a powerful Saudi Arabian billionaire, is the mastermind behind this insidious plot, whose apocalyptic scope and magnitude are almost beyond comprehension. Now Danielle and Ben, working both separately and together, must track Rahani along a deadly trail of shadows and subterfuge that spans three continents-before an ancient prediction becomes a very real and irreversible disaster.

Keepers of the Gate

by Jon Land

Published 1 April 2001

A new novel of suspense from the acclaimed author of A Walk in The Darkness and The Pillars of Solomon. How are the murders of elderly Holocaust survivors connected to the deaths of high school students in Israel and the West Bank? Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli detective Danielle Barnea soon discover that the answer to this blood-drenched puzzle lies as much in the past as in the present, with clues leading from a Nazi labour camp to the forefront of modern biotech research. To solve the mystery and save their own unborn child, Ben and Danielle must travel halfway around the world to confront the Keepers of The Gate.

A Walk in the Darkness

by Jon Land

Published 1 April 2000

1948: an archaeological team in Turkey is slaughtered after making an earth-shattering discovery.

More than fifty years later, a group of American archaeologists is murdered in the Judean desert. Chief Inspector Danielle Barnea of Israel's National Police is called to investigate, accompanied by Palestinian detective Ben Kamal, whose nephew was among the victims.

Joining forces once again, Ben and Danielle are swept into a maelstrom of secrets and subterfuge that spans three continents. The duo closes in on a solution to a mystery that could destroy them at the same time as it changes civilization forever.