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HEAVENLY FIRE 
by
Daniel Cohen

When Professor Avraham Carmeli is murdered on a desert road near the Dead Sea, his son David—a former IDF combat officer turned investigative journalist—inherits not just his father's life's work, but his killers too.

At its heart is a two-thousand-year-old scroll fragment that Avraham knew could crack the foundations of Christianity: proof that Jesus and John the Baptist were jointly anointed as messiahs by the Essenes, the secret sect who wrote and hid the Dead Sea Scrolls—and awaited the arrival of the Ark of the Covenant.

Racing across modern Israel with his wife Tracey while being tailed by religious extremists and shadowed by intelligence agents, David must decode his father's research before a powerful rabbi's underground militia destroys the scroll — and everyone connected to it.

As danger closes in, two narratives converge: David's desperate present-day quest, and a sweeping ancient world in which Yehoshua and Yochanan prepare to lead a war destined to destroy the forces of darkness and change the course of human history forever.

Heavenly Fire is a dual-timeline thriller that asks what really happened in first-century Judea when a priest was beheaded and a condemned king was crucified — and why, two thousand years later, are there still forces willing to kill to keep the truth buried.

Heavenly Fire doesn't just thrill—it questions everything we know. Behind murder and manhunt lie mysteries that have divided the faithful, challenged scholars, and been buried by those in power for centuries: What was the true story of Jesus and John the Baptist before Church dogma rewrote it?
This thriller follows the evidence—and won't let you look away.

Daniel Cohen
Author & TV documentary writer/producer 

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I was born in London and have lived in the Galilee of Israel for the last forty years.

My non-fiction book, The Holy Land of Jesus, has sold over 350,000 copies worldwide.

My TV career began as scriptwriter for Enigma of the Dead Sea Scrolls — and the subject has never let me go.

Major TV documentaries I've been local producer of include:

  • The Birth of Christ — National Geographic Mystery Files series, a NY Film Festival award-winner

  • Jesus: The Rise to Power — 3-part National Geographic series

  • The Secret Family of Jesus — Channel 4 UK

  • Flight of Faith: the Jesus Story — ITV UK 

  • Dead Sea Scrolls — 2-part ABC Australia mini-series

  • Crusades — the classic 4-part BBC series with Terry Jones of Monty Python

Heavenly Fire is where everything I've learned — and everything I've questioned — finally comes together.

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