Jack de Golia has narrated 57 audiobooks on Listento.it by 31 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is The Skillful Teacher.
The Cup
Summary
The brutal death of a Swedish spy sends Nick Carter, Selena Connor and the project team to Stockholm, where they find themselves pitted against a terrorist network hiding among the refugees flooding into the country. A fourth century artifact looted from the Middle East plunges the team into a search for the most elusive relic of Christendom: the Holy Grail. A prophecy warns that if the Grail falls into the wrong hands, it will bring about the End of Days. It's not just the project that's looking for the Grail: the murderous fanatics of ISIS are determined to find it. They'll stop at nothing to retrieve it. The day of judgment draws near and nuclear armageddon threatens America. Time is running out. Finding the Grail is the only thing that can prevent disaster. Kings, emperors and thieves have searched for the cup for more than 1,000 years, to no avail. All have failed. Will the project succeed before it's too late? You won't want to put this book down.
©2016 Alex Lukeman (P)2016 Alex Lukeman
The Sword
Summary
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.
©2019 Alex Lukeman (P)2019 Alex Lukeman
Random Survival
Summary
If the world as you know it ended today, how would you survive? After a sudden mysterious disease is unleashed on the country, claiming millions of lives, including that of his family, Mark is left alone. The cities are in chaos with survivors killing for food and water. Knowing as supplies dwindle the insanity will spread to his neighborhood, he creates a fortress in the basement of his suburban home, stock piles food, water, weapons, and medical supplies, and stays out of sight during the day. Weeks later, the deadly street gangs have been organized, becoming a more dangerous and brutal army. In methodical fashion, they begin a neighborhood-by-neighborhood search, stripping houses and businesses of anything useful, killing those who stand in their way and enslaving the rest. Mark knows if they find him they will kill him and works to not only stay hidden, but conceal his stash of supplies. However, when a woman and her family are trapped by the horde, Mark attempts a daring rescue, and becomes the focus of a deadly manhunt. Trapped and outnumbered, the killers closing in. Mark must find a way to keep them all alive. A fast-paced action thriller.
©2015 Ray Wenck (P)2019 Ray Wenck
The Nostradamus File
Summary
Book Six in the Project Series. A Paris dealer in rare books discovers a lost manuscript of prophecies by Nostradamus and is murdered. The murder sends Nick Carter, Selena Connor and the Project team on a global hunt for the fabled Ark of the Covenant. The prophecies lead them to the Holy Land and deep into the secrets of the ancient Order of the Knights Templar. The Ark is part of a plan to trigger war and a new Crusade in the Middle East. The men behind the plot will kill anyone who gets in the way, and Nick and Selena are in their crosshairs. At the same time he's trying to stay alive, Nick struggles with a bad case of PTSD. He'll lose Selena 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?
©2013 Alex Lukeman (P)2014 Alex Lukeman
Black Harvest (The Project: Book Four)
Summary
Book Four in the Project Series. An Amazon Best-seller. A world expert on crop viruses is brutally murdered, along with two of his colleagues. The murders get the attention of Elizabeth Harker, director of a covert presidential intelligence unit called the Project. Project team leader Nick Carter suffers with PTSD. He struggles with conflicting thoughts 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 her feelings for Nick and the mayhem that goes with her job. Nick and Selena follow a bloody trail through Greece, Bulgaria and America as they uncover a deadly plan that will kill millions if it succeeds. Director Harker must forge a dangerous alliance to avoid certain war with Russia. And all the while, a high-placed American traitor does his best to sabotage the Project at every turn...while time is running out.
©2012 Alex Lukeman (P)2014 Alex Lukeman
High Alert
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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 US 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?
©2017 Alexander Lukeman (P)2017 Alexander Lukeman
Dirty Deeds 4
Summary
The Big Easy. The Crescent City. Birthplace of Jazz. Mardi Gras City. NOLA. New Orleans. Even in a fun place like this I find myself being chased, shot at, coerced and abused by the FBI, organized crime and Reggie Keane, who used to spend his days trying to arrest me. Did I also mention a serial killer is in the mix as well? One of these days I'm going to spend time in a city and enjoy the tourist sites. The fourth book in the crime thriller series from author Armand Rosamilia.
©2017 Armand Rosamilia (P)2020 Armand Rosamilia
A Trip to Normal
Summary
Five months after the life-changing apocalyptic event, Mark craves normal activities. Having battled militias, gangs, and psycho killers, he'd just like to do something that reminds him of the world of his past. What could be more relaxing and normal than a fishing trip? Lynn, his co-director of the community, feels it is an excuse to seek action and violence and opposes the trip. After a bitter argument, Mark and his children Bobby and Becca leave anyway. Once on the water, they settle in for a peaceful day of fishing on Lake Erie. However, the presence of a pirate navy controlling the waters alters their plans. Fleeing a small armada of speed boats, they hide on shore, but witness the shooting of a man and the capture of a woman and girl. Mark sends Bobby and Becca for backup, taking the wounded man for medical help, then rashly attempts to rescue the woman and girl. Forming an alliance with a strange tribe living on the shores, he manages to free the girl but gets captured himself, and is transferred to a freighter the pirates use as a floating base. Returning with reinforcements, Bobby and Becca must rescue their father before the captain executes him.
©2017 Ray Wenck (P)2020 Ray Wenck
The Last Option
Summary
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.
©2018 Alex Lukeman (P)2018 Alex Lukeman
The Atlantis Stone
Summary
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?
©2016 Alexander Lukeman (P)2016 Alexander Lukeman
Black Rose
Summary
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 100 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.
©2015 Alexander Lukeman (P)2015 Alexander Lukeman
The Black Templar
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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?
©2019 Alexander Lukeman (P)2019 Alexander Lukeman
The Endless Struggle
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With the mysterious event that devastated mankind now four months past, and winter fast approaching, Bobby, Becca, and Myron hunt for game. Though life is not easy, it has at least settled into what now passes as normal. That is until they discover a band of hunters stalking human prey. For Mel, Caryn, and Tara, the end of the world has been a constant struggle to survive. The new world has become chaotic and dangerous. Those with the power make the rules. Life has little value except in the depths of depravity in the minds of those who own you. Now, pursued by armed men, the three women are forced to flee or be sold into slavery. Bobby, Becca, and Myron rescue the women, but are then hunted themselves. With time running out and the hunters closing in around them, the small band must find a place to make a stand, a place to survive.
©2016 Ray Wenck (P)2020 Ray Wenck
The Tesla Secret
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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.
©2012 Alex Lukeman (P)2014 Alex Lukeman
Phoenix
Summary
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?
©2018 Alex Lukeman (P)2018 Alex Lukeman
The Lair of Anubis
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An ancient papyrus describing the death of Cleopatra reveals the secret location of the lost tomb of Alexander the Great, supposedly 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 worshiped 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.
©2020 Alexander Lukeman (P)2020 Alexander Lukeman
End Game
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Four strategic nuclear bombs are hijacked by terrorists seeking revenge for the deaths of their families and comrades. Just one bomb can destroy everything within sixty miles of Ground Zero. An abandoned trailer linked to the missing nukes is found on the Gulf Coast. The Project is called in to investigate, setting the team off on a desperate race to find the terrorists before they detonate the bombs. Behind the scenes, the last surviving member of an ancient conspiracy is calling the shots. He's rich, he's powerful, and he's dying. He's got nothing to lose. He believes nuclear war will cleanse the earth and establish a new world order. He dreams of a society where there are only two classes: Elite rulers, and those who exist to serve them. It's up to the Project team to stop him, but time is running out. Can they do it before the world is plunged into war and consumed in the fire of Armageddon?
©2020 Alex Lukeman (P)2020 Alex Lukeman