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Black Harvest

by Alex Lukeman

Series: The Project

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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 Harker's 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 outâ??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. … (more)

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I have to admit that I was a bit confused at the start of the book because there appeared to be a number of disparate things going on. However, once these came together coherently, I found this book to be as enjoyable as its predecessors, and finished it quite quickly despite all my commitments around this Easter period.

The story centres on a group called AEON and their desire for world domination, and involves the preparation of a crop blight that would decimate plant growth and result in mass starvation before AEON, or its representatives, would come forward with an already prepared antidote.

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. They are assisted by their usual colleagues, and led by Elizabeth Harker, recovering from a serious illness, but still under treatment.

The Project is supposed to be extremely covert, but it is amazing how many people are betting to know about it, so their future operations will become more difficult, and although they do win through on this occasion, AEON is still out there and will no doubt feature in future novels.

We get to know more about the main characters in the series, and they remain true character traits developed in the previous novels. Lucas Monroe, introduced in Book 3 of the series, features again, and plays quite a significant part in the development of the storyline particularly towards the end.

It is a very good read, had me gripped towards the end, and has me looking forward to the next in the series.
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  Alan1946 | Jun 25, 2016 |
You know, once I got into the book a LONG ways, it finally became interesting. However, I found the first half rife with obligatory sex scenes, detailed discussion of inconsequential firearms and things that just didn't add to the story at all. Also, the archaeological and historical parts weren't discussed enough for me. I was extremely disappointed. Once I got past the concept that this really wasn't much along the lines of historical fiction, I was okay with the last half of the book. To be honest, I'm surprised I lasted that long. More than once, I considered tossing it, but kept thinking if I read a little farther, it would pick up the historical pace. I was wrong and just finally gave up that notion.

It was fair for a shoot-'em-up. Not much for a thinker. ( )
  mreed61 | Aug 10, 2014 |
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Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML:

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 Harker's 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 outâ??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. 

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