Bøger af Alex Lukeman

Michael Thorne meets with a French spy to talk about a nuclear warhead floating around on the black market. It's an easy assignment, right up to the moment someone tries to kill him. He wakes up in a French hospital with a new, confusing ability. The trail of the bomb takes him leads to Serbia and the dark echoes of Srebrenica. During a fleet exercise on the China Sea, the flagship of the Chinese Navy is torpedoed and sunk with all hands. It looks like she was attacked by a submarine from Taiwan. But what if it wasn't Taiwan? If they didn't do it, who did? Who wants to start a war? Thorne is posted to Taipei, where things aren't always what they appear to be. The Chinese want revenge for the loss of their ship. They're ready to invade Taiwan and plan a first strike on America if Washington comes to the island's aid. As the world nears the point of no return, Thorne may be the only hope to prevent nuclear Armageddon.

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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?

The president of the U.S. orders Director Elizabeth Harker of the Project to investigate the collision at sea of a U.S. 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?

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...

A cabal of ruthless men set in motion a plot to ignite 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.

An ancient papyrus describing the death of Cleopatra hold clues to the secret location of the lost tomb of Alexander the Great, filled with priceless treasure. Elizabeth Harker sends the Project team to Egypt, to find out if the tomb and treasure still exist.It doesn't take long before people start dying. A secret cult has worshipped Alexander as the Sun God for thousands of years, and they're not about to let unbelievers desecrate the tomb of their god. They'll stop at nothing to prevent it. Nick and Selena are getting older, their bodies starting to show the effects of too many battles and too many wounds. With two children to worry about, maybe it's time to quit. But neither one of them is quite ready to give up the adrenaline fueled lifestyle they've been addicted to for years. It's a decision they need to make soon. But first they have to get through this mission, with no guarantee they'll survive.

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 thirteenth 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 seven hundred years.Nick and Selena follow the clue to Portugal, thinking they'll get 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 another deadly race against time. There's something hidden with the gold, and 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 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 hiding among the refugees flooding into the country. The discovery of an artifact from the fourth 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? You won't want to put this book down.

A coup in the Kremlin brings hardliners to power who are determined to take back territories lost with the fall of the Soviet Union. Billions of euros pour 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...

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 reading into the night.

Nick Carter and his lover Selena Connor work for the Project, a black ops counter terrorism unit reporting to the president. Ancient gold coins found in a terrorist stronghold in the Philippines set the Project team on a collision course with a ruthless terrorist who dreams of an Islamic state in India. Nick and Selena struggle with their doubts about each other as tensions rise on the sub-continent. Powerful forces want to start a nuclear war between China, Pakistan and India. The Project team is the only thing standing in their way and success is far from certain.

Book Five in the PROJECT thriller series. Lost plans for a terrifying weapon designed 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. Director Elizabeth Harker runs the Project, the secret hand of the US President. Nick Carter heads up the Project team in the field. Selena Connor is his teammate and lover. Together they pursue a twisted trail of clues that tests their relationship to the breaking point.From the cobbled streets of Prague to the jungles of Mexico, from the ancient countryside of Tuscany to the barren plains of Central Russia, the story moves with relentless pace toward a final, explosive confrontation that will determine the future of humanity.

A lethal plague resurrected from the bones of the dead is stolen from a secret biological warfare lab hidden in the mountains of North Korea. There's no cure and it's one hundred percent fatal. If it gets loose, millions will die. The men who have it want to reduce the world's population and bring down the global economy as part of a plan to establish world dominance. Nick Carter and Selena Connor of the Project are up against their old nemesis, a centuries old conspiracy called AEON. This time, Director Elizabeth Harker is determined to eliminate AEON once and for all. It's touch and go as events build toward the final confrontation, with no certainty that things will turn out well. Along the way, dark secrets from Selena's past come to light. The Project team takes on another dangerous mission, with no guarantee that any of them will survive.

A photograph forgotten for a hundred 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 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 discovery of a lost manuscript of prophecies by Nostradamus sends Nick Carter and Selena Connor on a global hunt for the fabled Ark of the Covenant. The prophecies lead them to the Holy Land and to the secrets of the ancient Order of the Knights Templar. The Ark is part of a conspiracy to trigger war in the Middle East and someone keeps trying to take the Project team off the board. On top of that, Nick's PTSD is pushing Selena away and he will lose her if he doesn't find a way to handle it. But how can he find time to sort out his personal life when he's caught up in one of the most dangerous missions of his career?

Book Four in the PROJECT thriller series. Three world experts on crop disease discover a secret from the time of Alexander the Great and are brutally murdered...A centuries-old conspiracy plots to destroy much of the world's food supply as part of a plan for world domination...The PROJECT team must stop a traitor and prevent a world-wide disaster...The hunt for answers leads Nick Carter and Selena Connor to Greece, Bulgaria and the United States. In a series of life and death confrontations they encounter unlikely allies, an ancient legacy of bio-warfare and a cover up with ominous implications for freedom.James Campbell is a world expert in crop viruses. He discovers nine clay tablets from ancient Persia containing a clue to the location of a golden urn marked with the curse of a Greek goddess, part of treasure seized by Alexander the Great during the fall of Babylon. Then he's horribly murdered, along with two of his colleagues. Campbell has been working on a secret bio-warfare program for the Pentagon. The murders get the attention of Elizabeth Harker, Director of a covert intelligence unit called the Project. Nick Carter is The Project team leader. He struggles with old injuries and PTSD from his years as a combat Marine. Nick is deeply conflicted about his lover and teammate, Selena Connor. Selena's been with the Project for less than a year. She's having a hard time dealing with the mayhem that goes with her job and her feelings about Nick.Nick and Selena follow a bloody trail through Greece, Bulgaria and America, uncovering a heartless plan to destroy half the world's food supply, part of a strategy by a centuries-old conspiracy to achieve world domination. It will kill millions if it succeeds and time's running out--it's set to happen soon.Harker is forced to make an unheard of alliance to try and stop the plot and avoid possible war with Russia. All the while, a high-placed traitor does his best to sabotage the Project at every turn. The surprise ending foreshadows the next book in the series.BLACK HARVEST is a contemporary international thriller of intrigue, patriotism, romance and treachery.The PROJECT Series: WHITE JADE, THE LANCE, THE SEVENTH PILLAR, BLACK HARVEST. Book Five in the series will be available late in 2012.

Book Seven: The Ajax ProtocolThe 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.

Book One in the PROJECT thriller series. Former Recon Marine Nick Carter works for the Project, a covert counter-terrorism unit reporting to the President. He's taciturn and tough, with a dark history of emotional and physical scars that gives him depth and rich complexity. Selena Connor is a beautiful, strong and skilled linguist. When her wealthy uncle is murdered by someone looking for an ancient book about the elixir of immortality, she's thrust into Nick's dangerous world. Nick is assigned to protect Selena and help her recover the missing book, a routine task that escalates into a harrowing life and death adventure. They uncover a plot to overthrow the government of China and attack America A powerful relationship begins between them, forged from shared danger, combat and betrayal. The story spans the globe, from the gold country of California to the high mountains of Tibet, from the White House to the halls of power in Beijing. International intrigue, terrorist acts, budding romance, patriotism and the threat of nuclear war form the core of the book, the first volume in a series featuring Nick, Selena, the Project and the ongoing, complex relationship between the main protagonists.

Publisher's Weekly Review How well we sleep plays a role in mental and physical health, from headaches and irritability to impaired judgment. Lukeman presents the means to abolish sleeplessness: he contends that a calm and relaxed mind is essential to deep sleep and explains that people are in charge of their own sleeping habits. A helpful personal sleep quiz allows readers to access their sleep potential and identify the reasons they aren't sleeping well. Lukeman then methodically provides practical advice and strategies for achieving deep sleep.This reader-friendly guide includes information on natural sleeping aids, sleep disorders, self-hypnosis, dream analysis (the "Sleep, Dreams and Health" chapter is particularly interesting), how to defeat jet lag and how to teach children to get a good night's rest. Readers who find themselves staring at the ceiling at 3 A.M. would benefit by devoting those currently sleepless hours to reading Lukeman's helpful book.

As Hitler's Germany faces final defeat, the Lance that pierced Christ's side - a weapon of legendary power - is spirited away to a secret base hidden in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Decades later the Lance is found, and a long-term plan to conquer America from within begins to unfold. In Jerusalem, terror stalks the streets on the eve of international peace. In Washington, traitors work against America. The Project is all that stands in the way of a ruthless conspiracy of men bent on establishing a new Nazi Empire. It's up to Nick Carter and the Project team to stop those who wield the deadly power of the Lance, before it's too late...

The stories in this book are all true. Many are dreams of loved ones who returned to the dreamer days, months, or even years after death. Alex Lukeman stresses the fact that while some dreams of the departed are psychological in nature, there are also such things as true dreams of return. In these, a sense of completion and deep connection is always present.

Nightmares discusses subjects such as why we have nightmares, the language of dreams, universal symbols and some basic instructions for finding relief from nightmares.