The Last Prophecy (Ben and Danielle) - Hardcover

Land, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765309696 ISBN 13: 9780765309693

Publisher: Forge Books, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jon Land is the acclaimed author of numerous bestsellers, including six previous Ben Kamal / Danielle Barnea thrillers: The Walls of Jericho, The Pillars of Solomon, A Walk in the Darkness, Keepers of the Gate, Blood Diamonds, and The Blue Widows. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Last Prophecy
DAY ONETHE PRESENTCHAPTER 1LOGON COMPLETE ALL STATIONS CONFIRMED ACTIVE ON-LINE ENCRYPTION PROCEDURES IN EFFECTMESSAGE RUNNING 
From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanTHE SITUATION HAS BEEN CONTAINED AS OF TODAY. ALL PROCEEDING AGAIN ON SCHEDULE.From: GREAT BRITAIN X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanDISCUSS POTENTIAL COMPLICATIONS.From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanLIMITED.From: RUSSIA X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanSPECIFY.From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanEXPECT MANDATED INVESTIGATION. EASILY CONTAINABLE.From: JAPAN X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALLMIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanCONTAINMENT CRUCIAL. OTHERWISE SUGGEST PUSHING BACK TIMETABLE.From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanAGENTS ACTIVATED. ALTERATION OF TIMETABLE NOT PRACTICAL. ANY ALTERATION THREATENS PROJECT GOAL.From: FRANCE X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanHOW MANY DEAD?From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanREPEAT MESSAGE.From: CHINA X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanHOW MANY KILLED TO CONTAIN SITUATION?From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be clean34. ACCEPTABLE NUMBERS. PRIMARY THREAT ELIMINATED. COLLATERAL DAMAGE EXPECTED.From: GERMANY X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanARE WE CERTAIN PRIMARY THREAT ISOLATED PRIOR TO CONTAINMENT?From: UNITED STATES X-Priority:Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanNO EVIDENCE OF SHARED INTEL.From: JAPAN X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanSECONDARY TARGETS?From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanONE. NO COMPLICATIONS EXPECTED.From: RUSSIA X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be cleanCONFIRM COUNTDOWN TO PROMETHEUS.From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be clean 
TEN DAYS. 
MESSAGE TERMINATEDCopyright © 2004 by Jon Land

Edition details

• Publisher: Forge Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0765309696
• ISBN 13: 9780765309693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384