The Eye of Shiva

by Alex Lukeman Ph.D.

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781502780669
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/09/2014
Series:	Alex Lukeman's Project Series , #8
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Alex Lukeman writes action/adventure thrillers featuring a covert intelligence unit called the PROJECT and is the author of the award-winning Amazon best seller, The Tesla Secret. Alex is a former Marine and psychotherapist and uses his experience of the military and human nature to inform his work. He likes riding old, fast motorcycles and playing guitar, usually not at the same time. You can email him at [e-mail]. He loves hearing from readers and promises he will get back to you.

Editorial Reviews

2015-06-25
In the latest installment of Lukeman's (The Ajax Protocol, 2014, etc.) action series, a U.S. Black Ops group tries to stop terrorist attacks from inciting a war between India and Pakistan. When someone bombs the Indian Embassy in the Philippines, Elizabeth Harker, director of covert government unit the Project, sends her team to Manila. Once there, a raid on the American Embassy by Philippine terrorist faction Abu Sayyaf puts one team member in the ICU. The terrorists seem to be working with Pakistan-based Islamic State of Kashmir, but intercepted calls suggest that a secret organization is manipulating information to provoke an India-Pakistan conflict. The Project heads to India to shut down the nefarious enterprise by thwarting a missile launch and to seek vengeance for the group's wounded operative. Lukeman's action-packed novel keeps the plot moving and the tension high. The American Embassy assault is a lengthy, multi-chapter sequence that also puts in peril Project member Selena Connor, who's there to see the U.S. ambassador. The four-member team is exceptionally skilled yet vulnerable; Nick Carter questions his response time—and which terrorist he should have taken out first—after someone is seriously injured. Personal touches for the Project are largely effective, including Nick and Selena's endless marriage talks and Lamont Cameron's (possibly ominous) decision to "hang it up" soon. A notable villain, meanwhile, is surprisingly sympathetic: Indian spy Ashok Rao is both dying from inoperable cancer and out for retribution against ISOK jihadist Abdul Afridi, who killed Rao's wife and son. On occasion, the Project is oddly restricted, as when the president orders an interrogation-only strategy against a deadly target; elsewhere, the team is forced to work with a CIA asset. And one can't help but wonder whether Project hacker Stephanie Willits, who accrues nearly all of the plot's significant intel and tracks people through a series of phone calls, could have handled the mission by herself without ever leaving her desk. Nevertheless, the blistering gunfights only stop for a change in location, while at least some baddies still standing at the end leave the door open for the next book. Boldly embraces its genre and revels in its Hollywood-movie action scenes.

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