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The Last Prophecy (Ben and Danielle)
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by Jon Land
Sales Rank: 398597
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 384 pages
Published by: Forge BooksEdition: 1st Edition April 1, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0765309696
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0765309693
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Land's series seems to gain momentum with every installment, and his latest is as timely and extravagantly plotted as ever. In their seventh adventure, dynamic law enforcement duo and lovers Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea are dispatched by their new employer, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, to investigate a massacre in the Palestinian village of Bureij. Ben, a rugged Palestinian-American detective, and Danielle, a gorgeous former Israeli police inspector, soon discover that the massacre has little to do with current tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, the attack is rooted in a discovery made by Allied soldiers in 1945. The mysterious cache of steel canisters uncovered under stacks of corpses at Buchenwald pulses beneath the present-day action like a ticking time bomb. Everyone who has come into contact with the canisters in the half-century since their discovery has wound up dead, and a Nostradamus prophecy of universal destruction adds another layer of menace to the tale. Ben and Danielle's investigation leads them into conflict with renegades all over the globe, including the last vestiges of the Iraqi Special Republican Guard and a network of rogue ex-Soviet moles. Land's prose can be a little overheated, but the breakneck pace and chockablock plotting leave protagonists (and the civilized world) constantly teetering on the brink of destruction. Highly entertaining from start to finish, this is prime escapist fiction, implausible yet riveting.
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From Booklist
In this seventh installment in Land's action series featuring U.N. investigators Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea, the two must unlock the mysteries of a sixteenth-century prophecy in order to stop the destruction of the U.S. Barnea, trained as an assassin by the Israelis and her lover, Palestinian American Kamal, a former cop, race all over the globe as they try to uncover a cabal of former Soviet Union moles, planted deep within the governments of the world, who are using Iraqi terrorists to further their devastating goals. The resourceful pair careens from one death-defying encounter to another as they attempt to ferret out the identities of the villainous masterminds (one of whom will be sure to shock even the most assiduous of readers) before America ends up in ruins. Land taps every element the thriller genre has to give--from Nazis to Nostradamus, from South American drug lords to New England cyber-sleuths. Recommended for all popular reading collections--the Nostradamus angle should appeal to fans of the popular novel The Da Vinci Code (2003). Michael Gannon
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This review is from: The Last Prophecy (Ben and Danielle) (Mass Market Paperback)
With the hype over the Da Vinci Code and its related popularity, you can sometimes get the feeling that some people probably think the grand conspiracy novel started with Dan Brown. Of course, this is not the case, as Brown is merely one in a long line of such thriller writers. Probably the biggest in the bunch was Robert Ludlum, but not to be forgotten is Jon Land. Not quite the big name that Ludlum or Brown, Land is nonetheless the most pure fun, with outlandish plots and tons of action. The Last Prophecy brings back Danielle Barnea, an ex-Israeli cop and Ben Kamal, a former Palestinian detective. Despite the obvious conflicts caused by their different backgrounds, the two are faithful lovers and, as the novel begins, both working as investigators for the U.N. In this case, the two are called to look into a mass murder in a Palestinian village. At first, it appears to be a massacre by Israeli troops, but it soon enough appears to be something far more sinister, a conspiracy tied to events uncovered at the World War II and some lost prophecies of Nostradamus. The last of these prophecies provides the key to the conspiracy. Land uses his standard formula for his Barnea/Kamal novels: the two split up for the majority of the book to separately unearth parts of the plot only to converge at the end to stop the bad guys. Typically, the people who provide the information are assassinated by the villains before they can reveal all. This formula works well enough since Land executes it well (and really, Brown and Ludlum use a similar formula themselves). I won't say this is perfect writing, but it's plenty good enough to merit a strong four stars. My biggest "problem" with Land is that he is only writing books featuring Barnea and Kamal; I miss his older novels with Blaine McCracken, which were even more delightfully outlandish with their James Bond-like world conquest plots. But in the absence of McCracken, this series still fits the bill for what Land does best: entertain from beginning to end.
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