The Last Prophecy

Book 7: Ben and Danielle

by Jon Land

Genres: Suspense

Synopsis

1945: While liberating a concentration camp, 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.

The Present: 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 very way-of-life destroyed. Their only hope: to use The Last Prophecy.

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Release date: April 29, 2008

Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

Print pages: 384

Sample

Last Prophecy

DAY ONE
THE PRESENT
CHAPTER 1
LOGON COMPLETE ALL STATIONS CONFIRMED ACTIVE ON-LINE ENCRYPTION PROCEDURES IN EFFECT
MESSAGE RUNNING


From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
THE 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 clean
DISCUSS 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 clean
LIMITED.
From: RUSSIA X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
SPECIFY.
From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
EXPECT MANDATED INVESTIGATION. EASILY CONTAINABLE.
From: JAPAN X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL
MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
CONTAINMENT 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 clean
AGENTS 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 clean
HOW 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 clean
REPEAT MESSAGE.
From: CHINA X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
HOW 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 clean
34. 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 clean
ARE 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 clean
NO 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 clean
SECONDARY TARGETS?
From: UNITED STATES X-Priority: Sensitivity: Company-Confidential To: ALL MIME-Version: 1.0 IM secure status: active X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
ONE. 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 clean
CONFIRM 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 TERMINATED

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