Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea

2 primary 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.

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.