Keepers of the Gate (Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea Novels)

New York: Forge, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. A mysterious killer who is targeting Holocaust survivors sends detective Ben Kamal a Palestinian-American who has been working on the West Bank for six years and his Israeli sidekick, Danielle Barnea, down a labyrinthine trail of conspiracy and deception in Land's (A Walk in the Darkness, etc.) latest installment in this ongoing series. Corpses litter the Middle East landscape throughout this action-packed story, but once the initial victims surface the investigation splits into two parts one involving a group of Nazi hunters who emerge in the middle of the ongoing detective work, the other dealing with a separate string of murders in which the victims are clever high school students who organize a high-level blackmail operation targeting Israeli companies.