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Blood Diamonds (Ben and Danielle)

Jon Land

The West African country of Sierra Leone has long been known as a diamond-rich area. With civil war ripping the heart out of the country, all aspects of life there are unstable. Worst of all, guerrilla rebels, in their lust for the resource-rich land, have sunk to depravity and terrorism to evict people from the country.

It's into this maelstrom of political and emotional turmoil that Ben and Danielle must go. The leader of the rebels, a fanatical and charismatic woman known only as the Dragon, is not content with ravaging her own country. She plans a final coup that will perfect her power and topple Western governments--unless Ben and Danielle can stop her in time.
The Last Prophecy (Ben and Danielle)

Jon Land

1945: While liberating a concentration camp, the 121st Evacuation Hospital, an American medical unit, uncovers something beneath a body-laden trench. Sixty years later, the survivors of that unit are systematically murdered because of what they saw.

2004: Enter former Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and his Israeli counterpart, Danielle Barnea. Working for the United Nations, Ben and Danielle are forced to return to the Middle East to investigate a massacre in a Palestinian village. They quickly learn that the roots of that massacre 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 change a fate foretold long before is to decipher a cryptic message shrouded in secrecy and guarded by a hidden 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 way of life destroyed. Their only hope: to utilize the Last Prophecy.
The Walls of Jericho (Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea Novels)

Jon Land

When a serial killer stalking Jericho threatens peace talks taking place between the Palestinians and the Israelis, an Arab-American detective and an Israeli Shin Bet agent must set aside their differences and stop the killer before he singlehandedly destroys the peace talks. 30,000 first printing.
Keepers of the Gate (Ben and Danielle)

Jon Land

How are the shocking 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 the clues leading from a Nazi labor camp to the forefront of modern biotech research, while leaving a trail of deception and death behind.

At the center of the mystery lies Paul Hessler, a labor camp escapee and New York billionaire with secrets that stretch back over sixty years. Hessler is also in possession of a miraculous medical discovery that could affect the lives of thousands--inlcluding Ben and Danielle's unborn child.

To protect this discovery, and to rescue the future form the hidden evils of the past, Ben and Danielle must come face-to-face with the Keepers of the Gate.
Dead Simple

Jon Land

April 1998: A tanker hauling a deadly new explosive vanishes without a trace in a raging storm.... That explosive falls into the hands of Jack "Terror" Tyrell. Now, he's more determined than ever to realize his deadly vision: to lead a radical underground group that spreads its message via bombs and blood.
Enter Blaine McCracken. McCracken seeks out his mentor, Sergeant Major Buck Torrey, to get his edge back after being wounded in a terrorist attack. But Torrey has disappeared. McCracken reconnoiters with beautiful Liz Halprin, Torrey's daughter, and their hunt takes them on a perilous journey where secrets can be as deadly as bullets.
McCracken and Halprin are hot on Jackie Terror's tail, which brings them to Manhattan, where Terror's going to hold seven million people hostage.
The Blue Widows

Jon Land

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.
The Pillars of Solomon (Ben and Danielle)

Jon Land

Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli police inspector Danielle Barnea return to confront a worldwide criminal plague: white slavery.

Ben Kamal hasn't investigated a case since his last assignment with Danielle until he learns about missing children in his native West Bank. And Danielle had put her career on hold until a personal tragedy left her with nothing to turn to except her career; her first case is the seemingly random murder of a Jerusalem shopkeeper.

What Ben and Danielle don't know, can't know, is that their separate investigations are linked by a secret born of the blood that forged a nation.

To stop history from being rewritten, Ben and Danielle must follow a dangerous path to a truth that no one wants revealed, a truth someone had already killed to keep hidden behind the Pillars of Solomon.
A Walk In The Darkness (Ben and Danielle)

Jon Land

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

More than fifty years later, another group of archaeologists, this one made up of Americans, is murdered in the Judean desert. Chief Inspector Danielle Barnea of Israel's National Police is called in 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 where truth is the rarest find of all. Together they follow a trail that spans three continents and stretches from the dusty streets of Jericho to the regent corridors of Rome, back to a conspiracy that has remained buried for more than 2,000 years.

Hunted by a secret army and renounced by their own governments, Ben and Danielle close on the solution to a mystery that can destroy them at the same time it changes civilization forever.
Their only hope is to find the light that lies at the end of A Walk In the Darkness.
Kingdom of the Seven

Jon Land

Dr. Karen Raymond has made the medical breakthrough of the century, a vaccine that could halt the spread of our most devastating modern plague, AIDS. But when her laboratory is destroyed and her colleagues murdered, she realized she's in danger: a conspiracy of proportions she never dreamed possible is out to crush her work.

In another part of the country the population of an entire town has disappeared into thin air, leaving behind only half-finished meals, empty offices and schools.

Who is responsible? A cabal of power-seeking corporations? Rogue victims of Army medical experiments gone horribly wrong? Who is behind the traitorous plot that threatens to sacrifice our country to the Kingdom of the Seven.
The Alpha Deception

Jon Land
The Omega Command

Jon Land
Vengeance of the Tau

Jon Land

Blaine McCracken, former government agent turned international troubleshooter, is on the trail of an international slaughter spree. He's as ruthless and resourceful as they come when battling evil, but he may have met his match. From the distant past, a conspiracy born of vengeance has returned--and from the depths of the earth it has brought forth its instrument of annihilation. But the violence done is only the bloody beginning of the violence to come, in a conspiracy that could push humanity toward an unspeakable end....
Day of the Delphi

Jon Land

With charismatic billionaire Samuel Jackson Dodd at its head, a shadowy cabal of conservatives uses its power to try to win the U.S. presidency and gain complete control of the United States government. Reprint.
The Gamma Option

Jon Land
The Omicron Legion

Jon Land
The Council of Ten

Jon Land

THE COURIERS

In Miami, four seemingly harmless grandmothers are professionally terminated. Then the shocking news is revealed: The victims are key links in a global cocaine operation.

THE JOURNALIST

Drew Jordan has a very personal stake in this astounding story. Quickly he discovers how dangerously deceptive appearances can be. The reporter turns killer . . . and target.

THE ASSASSIN

Peter Wayman -- a.k.a. Timberwolf -- was the CIA's most accomplished eliminator until tragedy forced him out of a dirty game. Now he must join with Drew and become a player one last time.

THE AGENT

Elliana Hirsch is a top operative of the Mossad. Her assignment is the penetration of a monstrous threat to world peace that has robbed her of the person she loved most.

THE COUNCIL OF TEN

The shadowy, all-powerful conspiracy has but one aim: total domination. It is fortified by an awesome superweapon that can render America helpless. And only a desperate army of three can stop it.
The Ninth Dominion

Jon Land

DISAPPEARANCE. At a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane, eighty-four of the most dangerous psycopaths alive have vanished from their cells without a trace. Leading their ranks: the Candy Man -- the most ruthlessly brilliant serial killer ever in captivity.
DETERMINATION. The only way to catch a crazed killer is to think like one. Rogue agent Jared Kimberlain -- the most dangerous man who ever worked for the forces of good -- is the only man driven enough to do the job. Or die trying.
DEVASTATION. A shocking conspiracy is taking shape across the country, hatched by an unholy alliance of twisted, insane murderers. They plan to wipe out the entire population, and they possess the horrifying means to do it.
THE NINTH DOMINION. It could be mankind's ultimate undoing. Jared Kimberlain is all that stands between humanity and a grave new world of disorder, damnation, and death. Time is short, and the fuse that will ignite a hell on earth is shorter . . . .
The Fires of Midnight

Jon Land

Who killed two thousand innocent people, and how? More importantly, can they be stopped from striking again?

Infectious disease expert Dr. Susan Lyle teams up with Blaine McCracken, ex-CIA operative, in the search for answers. Hideously deformed cadavers and a missing teenage genius are their only leads. The chase takes them all the way down the eastern seaboard and across the country, and they soon realize that at the heart of the puzzle lies a whole new generation of biological weapons. Should the wrong people get their hands on them, no one will be able to prevent the horrifying effect of...The Fires of Midnight.
Labyrinth

Jon Land

"The Committee" has masterminded a fiendish, far-reaching plot rooted in the highest corridors of power. Code name: Tantalus. Tantalus -- all the more daring because it is so obvious -- strikes at the very lifeline of humanity. Its aim is enormous, horrible, and unknown even to the superpowers. Only one man, Christopher Locke, an unsuccessful college professor, can expose the trail that begins with the brutal execution of every person in an obscure South American town. But even as Locke navigates the labyrinth leading to The Committee and Tantalus, The Committee is hunting him down, using even his most trusted friends against him.
Eighth Trumpet

Jon Land

THE MURDER
It spite of the tightest high-tech security ever conceived, billionaire Jordan Lime is savagely killed by a weapon that tears him apart limb by limb with grim, laserlike efficiency.
THE CONSPIRACY
An army unlike any other has fired its first shot. In its ranks are the world's most vicious killers, fortified by a super-advanced arsenal against which there is no defense.
THE THREAT
It is a madman's plan to conquer the earth by destroying it. He will unleash the devastating powers of the atom and let the cataclysmic wrath of nature do the rest.
THE STRUGGLE
Battle lines are drawn. Against the ultimate tyranny stands freedom's forces -- led by Jared Kimberlain, the one the world turns to when it's in trouble -- prepared to match evil shock for shock, blow for blow.
THE EIGHTH TRUMPET
From New York to Washington, D.C., from London to the Mediterranean island of Malta, and on to the frozen wastes of Antarctica, the demented plot unfolds. It will reach its terrifying climax on a day set aside for celebration -- a day that may mark the end of humankind . . . .