The Seventh Pillar
Part 3 of the Project (Lukeman) series
A fanatical terrorist has visions of the Islamic Mahdi commanding him to begin the Apocalypse and bring about the End of Days. An ancient brotherhood of assassins hidden for centuries reappears to murder and ignite the fires of war. A truck carrying a terrible weapon leaves Sudan for the lawless mountains of Algeria and an unknown destination.
Director Elizabeth Harker of the Project sends Nick Carter and Selena Connorto to the burning wastelands of Western Africa, the back streets of San Diego and the bitter mountains of the Hindu Kush, before a final confrontation that will decide the future of Western civilization.
The Tesla Secret
Part 5 of the Project (Lukeman) series
Plans for a devastating weapon invented by Nikola Tesla fall into the hands of a centuries-old conspiracy bent on world domination. Powerful men will stop at nothing to use the weapon to achieve their goal, even at the risk of nuclear war.
Nick Carter works for the Project, the shadow hand of the US President. Selena Connor is his teammate and lover. Their relationship is tested to the breaking point as they are forced to question their commitment to other and to the violent life they have chosen.
From the streets of Prague to the jungles of Mexico, from the hills of Tuscany to the plains of Eastern Russia, the story moves with relentless pace toward a final, explosive confrontation.
The Ajax Protocol
Part 7 of the Project (Lukeman) series
The Project is a Black Ops intelligence unit reporting only to the President of the United States. When an assassination attempt takes the President out of commission, the Project is caught up in a conspiracy that threatens to spark a world war and runs a lot deeper than just trying to kill the leader of the free world.
Led by Director Elizabeth Harker, the Project team discovers a cold-hearted plot to turn America into a totalitarian police state. Betrayed by powerful enemies at home and forced to rely on doubtful allies abroad, Harker and her team are driven underground. With time running out, they must stop the conspirators before they destroy everything America stands for. At the same time team leader Nick Carter and his lover, Selena Connor, struggle to commit to each other in a covert world where love and compassion are in short supply, and enemies lie in wait at every turn.
The Ajax Protocol could be taken from tomorrow's headlines. It will disturb you and keep you turning pages to the end.
The Solomon Scroll
Part 10 of the Project (Lukeman) series
The contents of an ancient scroll set in motion a deadly quest for the tomb of Solomon and the long-lost treasure of the Second Jewish Temple. The Project team is up against a madman who believes he is the last high priest of an ancient and cruel god. He seeks the Seal of Solomon and the mystical powers he's sure it will bring him. He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants, including murder and treachery.
From the streets of Beirut to the barrens of Saudi Arabia and the wild canyons of Ethiopia, the Project team follows a strange trail of confusing clues in search of Solomon's bones and the sacred heritage of a nation.
The Russian Deception
Part 11 of the Project (Lukeman) series
A coup in the Kremlin brings hardliners to power, men determined to take back territories lost with the fall of the Soviet Union. Billions of euros are flowing into Moscow from an unknown source, fueling a secret military buildup.
Director Elizabeth Harker sends the project team to the Balkans, where the Russian-backed president of Macedonia is suppressing a popular movement threatening to become a revolution. It looks like Moscow is meddling once again in Central Europe. But the reality is not what it appears to be.
Nick, Selena, and the team are caught up in a devious plot that takes the world to the brink of nuclear war. Who is funding Moscow's militaristic adventures and why? Can the team find a way to stop a confrontation between Russia and the United States before it starts? The stakes for Nick, Selena, Elizabeth Harker, and the world have never been higher. If they fail, civilization will be destroyed.
Failure is not an option...
The Atlantis Stone
Part 12 of the Project (Lukeman) series
A photograph forgotten for 100 years holds the key to finding the legendary lost civilization of Atlantis and an ancient artifact of mysterious power. When a letter with the photograph and a faded map of Egypt shows up in the mail, the Project is launched into a search that takes them from the depths of the Atlantic to the sands of Egypt and places unseen for thousands of years.
Elizabeth Harker's Project team is caught up in a power struggle between two of Russia's vast intelligence services. As the trail to Atlantis emerges from the mists of the past, the team is stalked by agents of a man who will stop at nothing to gain another rung on the ladder of his ambition.
Whoever succeeds will gain knowledge to benefit the world or destroy it. The stakes don't get any higher.
Can the Project keep the secrets of Atlantis out of the wrong hands?
The Cup
Part 13 of the Project (Lukeman) series
The brutal death of a Swedish spy sends Nick Carter, Selena Connor, and the rest of the Project team to Stockholm, where they find themselves pitted against a terrorist network hidden among the refugees flooding into the country. The discovery of an artifact from the 4th Century plunges the team into a search for one of the most elusive relics of Christendom: the Holy Grail. An ancient prophecy foretells the End of Days if the Grail falls into the wrong hands. The Project team aren't the only ones searching. The murderous fanatics of ISIS are determined to find it for themselves. Nuclear Armageddon threatens America and finding the Grail is the only thing that can prevent disaster. Will the Project succeed before it's too late?
High Alert
Part 14 of the Project (Lukeman) series
When an American missile submarine is sunk in the Sea of Japan, it's the opening move in a madman's plan to plunge the world into war. A day later the Chinese ambassador to Washington is assassinated. Meanwhile, the unstable leader of North Korea prepares to attack America with a terrible weapon.
The U.S. President calls in the Project, a deep black ops unit that goes places and does things others can't or won't do. They've had tough assignments before: but this time they're up against an unknown enemy, a man bent on vengeance against all of humanity. He won't rest until the world is turned into a radioactive hell... and when it comes to the Project, it's personal.
Can the Project team find him before he unleashes nuclear Armageddon?
Solomon's Gold
Part 15 of the Project (Lukeman) series
An ancient scroll written in code is discovered in a New York museum. Selena Connor is called in to break the code and translate the writing. She's a world-class linguist, a member of the secretive, covert operations team known as the Project. The scroll reveals clues to a treasure collected by King Solomon to build and maintain the First Jewish Temple. Hidden somewhere in the desert lands of Israel is a vast hoard of gold, the heritage of a nation. Director Harker of the Project sends the team out to discover where the treasure is hidden. Selena is determined to quit the dangers of the field, but this looks like a pleasant change from the usual mission. It's just a simple archaeological expedition, after all. But nothing that involves the Project is ever simple. Betrayal, murder, and vicious enemies stalk the expedition, as Selena and her teammates follow the clues revealed by the scroll. Meanwhile, back in New York where it all began, a sinister plan is unfolding. Will the Project survive their enemies and find Solomon's gold? Can they stop a plot to kill two of the world's most important leaders and thousands of unsuspecting victims? The issue is in doubt!
Phoenix
Part 16 of the Project (Lukeman) series
The president of the US orders Director Elizabeth Harker of the Project to investigate the collision at sea of a US Navy missile destroyer with a Chinese freighter. It may have been sabotage, and the president wants her to get to the bottom of it. But the assignment is not what it seems. Harker has an enemy in the White House who wants her to fail. The Project's continued existence is on the line.
In the cold reaches of the far north, a hidden supercomputer with malicious artificial intelligence is being used by a secret organization to drive the world to war. Disruptive attacks across the world begin to create deep suspicions between China, Russia, and America. Preparations for war escalate. As the war drums begin to beat, the Project team discovers a digital trail that could lead to whoever is trying to touch off a nuclear confrontation.
That makes the team a serious threat. They're getting too close to the truth, and the man behind the attacks decides to stop them. As the doomsday clock ticks toward zero, it's touch and go whether any of the team will get out alive, much less stop the certainty of nuclear war and mutual annihilation.
Will they survive long enough to stop the missiles from flying?
The Last Option
Part 17 of the Project (Lukeman) series
A cabal of ruthless men set in motion a plot to ignite a nuclear war, certain they will survive the resulting holocaust and rule what is left after the missiles stop flying.
Director Elizabeth Harker's aging Project team is called into action once again, but the odds are stacked high against them. A hostile president means to shut them down. Someone keeps trying to kill them. Nick and Selena's unborn children are in the line of fire. Even Selena's Russian half-sister is caught up in the deadly game, with consequences she'd never expected.
The doomsday clock is ticking. If the Project team doesn't stop the plot in time, the world will pay the price.
The Black Templar
Part 18 of the Project (Lukeman) series
The Project is in transition, their future in doubt. Selena Connor is no longer part of the active field unit, and she misses the action and excitement. When she's approached to translate a 13th-century Templar document written in code, she jumps at the chance. The document reveals a clue to the location of the legendary Templar treasure, lost for 700 years.
Selena and Nick Carter follow the clue to Portugal. They think they'll get in a little vacation time while they search for something to tell them what happened to the treasure. But the vacation turns into a nightmare and launches the Project team on a deadly race against time. There's something evil hidden with the gold. If the Project can't prevent it from falling into the hands of the Black Templars, a terrible darkness will descend upon the world.
Can they succeed against the odds?
The Sword
Part 19 of the Project (Lukeman) series
No longer under the protection of the president, the Project has gone private as an exclusive consulting service available to select clients. A powerful Japanese industrialist hires Elizabeth Harker and the Project team to find a famous sword lost in the aftermath of WWII.
It looks like a straightforward assignment. Then people start dying, and Harker's team is pulled into a web of murder and deception that began centuries before in feudal Japan. Why is the sword important enough to kill for? What secret does it hold?
Forced to defend themselves against a fanatical enemy, Nick and Selena follow a trail of blood to Japan. There they find themselves in a mythic confrontation that can only end in one way - death.
The Sword will keep you listening into the night.
City of Gold
Part 22 of the Project (Lukeman) series
Cut off from government support, the Project has gone private as the Harker Group, specializing in high order security. Business has been slow, but when a wealthy British explorer wants to hire her services, Director Elizabeth Harker isn't sure she wants the job. Sir Jeffrey Livingston has an ancient map leading to the lost city of Paititi, where a legendary treasure of gold was hidden during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. The ruins of the city are somewhere deep in the unexplored Amazon jungle. Livingston is mounting an expedition to go after the gold. He wants the Project team to provide security. Simple enough, except word of the map and expedition has leaked. Communist rebels want to get their hands on the gold and use it to fan the flames of revolution. That can't be allowed to happen. Harker agrees to take Livingston on as a client. The team heads to Peru and sets off into the Amazon. Soon they are far from civilization, where there's no backup if something goes wrong. Enemies are tracking them. There's a traitor in their midst. The deadly creatures of the rain forest are everywhere, death only a careless step away. Even if they manage to find the lost city, they'll need all their skills to get out alive. The Project team has been in some tough spots before, but nothing has prepared them for this...
The Enemy
Part 23 of the Project (Lukeman) series
Neuroscientist Jaleh Kezri has created a genetically modified protein that can be activated by remote transmission. Once inside the bloodstream, it can program the brain to fight disease. But for those with darker intentions it can be directed to cause pain and sickness...even death.
A small group of powerful men wants to establish a totalitarian world government. They plan to infect the world's population with the protein. Then everyone will be forced to obey the new rulers or suffer terrible consequences.
The Project team begins a life and death struggle to stop the cabal. If they fail, millions will die. A new world order will arise, ending freedom everywhere.
The stakes for humanity have never been higher...
The Enemy
Part 23 of the Project (Lukeman) series
Neuroscientist Jaleh Kezri has created a genetically modified protein that can be activated by remote transmission. Once inside the bloodstream, it can program the brain to fight disease. But for those with darker intentions it can be directed to cause pain and sickness...even death.
A small group of powerful men wants to establish a totalitarian world government. They plan to infect the world's population with the protein. Then everyone will be forced to obey the new rulers or suffer terrible consequences.
The Project team begins a life and death struggle to stop the cabal. If they fail, millions will die. A new world order will arise, ending freedom everywhere.
The stakes for humanity have never been higher...
The Project Series
Books #1-3
Part of the Project (Lukeman) series
Welcome to the world of the Project, where things are seldom as they seem. Small, effective, lethal, the Project is a deep black counter terrorism team reporting only to the president. The Project Series, Books 1-3 presents the Project's first three missions, complete, as they happened. In White Jade the team comes up against a ruthless general obsessed with finding the elixir of immortality who seeks to seize control of China and attack America. In The Lance, the Project uncovers betrayal at the highest levels of government and a long-standing Nazi conspiracy to conquer the United States from within. In The Seventh Pillar, a fanatical terrorist who believes he's been chosen by God to usher in a new apocalypse threatens nuclear holocaust. Three action-packed books in one convenient place.Welcome to the world of the Project, where things are seldom as they seem. Small, effective, lethal, the Project is a deep black counter terrorism team reporting only to the president. The Project Series, Books 1-3 presents the Project's first three missions, complete, as they happened. In White Jade the team comes up against a ruthless general obsessed with finding the elixir of immortality who seeks to seize control of China and attack America. In The Lance, the Project uncovers betrayal at the highest levels of government and a long-standing Nazi conspiracy to conquer the United States from within. In The Seventh Pillar, a fanatical terrorist who believes he's been chosen by God to usher in a new apocalypse threatens nuclear holocaust. Three action-packed books in one convenient place.Welcome to the world of the Project, where things are seldom as they seem. Small, effective, lethal, the Project is a deep black counter terrorism team reporting only to the president. The Project Series, Books 1-3 presents the Project's first three missions, complete, as they happened. In White Jade the team comes up against a ruthless general obsessed with finding the elixir of immortality who seeks to seize control of China and attack America. In The Lance, the Project uncovers betrayal at the highest levels of government and a long-standing Nazi conspiracy to conquer the United States from within. In The Seventh Pillar, a fanatical terrorist who believes he's been chosen by God to usher in a new apocalypse threatens nuclear holocaust. Three action-packed books in one convenient place.