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The Telsa Secret (2000)

by Alex Lukeman(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 2

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Mystery & Thriller

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The Project

review 1: The Tesla Secret is a strange book. It started off with some exciting action, the attempted assassination of the protagonists. Good, I thought, this will be a rollicking action thriller. Then things started getting strange. The bad guy, named Foxworth, was described as a media mogul living in the UK. This character has a more than superficial similarity of a certain real life media mogul (hint FOXworth). OK, some blatant anti-conservative blather, I can ignore that. Then, in a couple of places, the author gives dates as CE. For those not familiar with CE, it is exactly the same as AD, except is is supposed to be less insulting to non-European cultures than the obviously Christian-centric AD. It is only used by hyper PC academic types and is a sure sign of cultural relativi... moresm and low intellectual integrity. But back to the action, which is plentiful. Of course the action is hung on a plot and there things really get weird.It turns out that the bad guys, an evil organization (aren't they all) led by the aforementioned Foxworth, is trying to build a weapon designed by Nikola Tesla (yes, the long dead Croatian inventor). Now I have no problems with this sort of thing, after all Clive Cussler has been turning the recovery of weird ancient artifacts into action adventure gold for half a century or more. But there is more. The team of good guys & gals soon needs to recover an ancient manuscript from a museum which turns out to be made of bark inscribed with ancient mesoamerian markings. This leads them to the Yucatan and an undiscovered pyramid where they have a shoot out and a bit of interpersonal crisis. You see Nick forgot to pack the bullet proof vests leading to his main squeeze Selena getting shot. She blames him for her wounding, pretty much putting the kibosh on their bedroom antics for the rest of the book. Question: how does a team of highly trained special operators not notice they have forgotten their vests? It's not like bullet proof vests are small articles that one doesn't notice until needed. This is only one in a series of operational and equipment based faux pas in the story. In another place the author states that the AN-94 assault rifle shoots two rounds at once—nothing without two or more barrels can fire more than a single round at once. What the AN-94 has is a two round burst mode that fires successive shots with an effective cyclic rate of 1800 rounds per minute. The author was a Marines, and a Marine should know better. He is also a shrink, which is probably why the relationship between Nick and Selena is so messed up.From here things just get weirder. It turns out that Nick has psychic visions, glimpses of the future. Not only that, but the bad guys made off with the item that old Tesla was looking for, a crystal amplifier not of this world—space aliens anyone? It seems that this crystal is the heart of an amplifier that taps into Telluric current to provide unlimited energy! Telluric current is real, it has been known for more than 100 years. If it could yield usable amounts of power cities around the world would be powered by it. Instead, it has been co-opted by the fringe science and flying saucer crowed and blended with the mystic lay lines so popular with new age nut jobs. Instead of a decent action adventure tale the book is actually a new age, ancient aliens, mystic power driven piece of PC liberal progressive propaganda. Any one of these literary gimmicks would have been fine on their own, but all mixed in together they totally destroy any possible suspension of disbelief, at least for me. After such a promising start it actually makes me angry that this book devolved into twaddle. Thank goodness I got it for free. Two stars only because some of the action was good.
review 2: I cannot recommend The Project Series enough to any adult who enjoys reading. I have been hooked on Mr. Lukeman’s series for a few years now, and I await each chapter in his EPIC STORY.The Project is a small band of heroic men and woman who believe in their country and would put their money where there mouths are and die for it. Elizabeth Harker is the head of our Team which has grown a bit more with each story.Elizabeth has the ear of the President of the United States, but he would disavow any knowledge of them if he needed to. They go and do America’s dirty work. Nick Carter, ex marine heads the team as Team Leader. Harker’s assistant and computer techky extraordinaire is Stephanie Willets, along with Ronnie Peete and Lamont Cameron ex Navy Seal. Selena Connor joined the team helping with her expert knowledge in ancient languages. With her training in jujitsu and handguns, while a young woman being raised by her Uncle, Selena has added the spice to Nick Carters life.We have followed them over hill and dale, jumping from helicopters, diving in oceans and their once unobtrusive team has come into the spotlight now as a might to be reckoned with. To open this newest book and find Selena and Nick all curled up together, and Nick hears a slight sound that peeks his psyche. Jumping up, alerting Selena they move quickly from bed, pull some clothes with them and jump from the cabin; Nick had thought safe as it explodes in the middle of the snowy forest. Besides the enemy having new plans for Americas destruction, the head of a group known as AEON, Malcolm Foxworth has not been happy being thwarted by our gang recently, he has put a ‘hit’ on all it’s members. Hold on to you hats folks…Here we go again!As in the last book, Black Harvest, we have two more allies. One gentleman is a mystery to us all, he seems to pull up in a mysterious car, invites Nick entry and fills him in on important pieces of information… We like him… Who is he and what is his agenda???Major Arkady Korov, working for the Russian Secret Service, had worked with our team in Black Harvest. This resulted in both he and our team a mutual respect and he again will be involved in this story as well.Mr Lukeman takes us to all corners of the globe in his stories, but I had the most fun with going to Brooklyn the Borough of my birth, being in Brighton Beach , and dealing with the Russian Mafia.The story is faced paced, true to a power house of good vs evil. But I stepped back this time, as maybe Alex did, and read the wonderful job of his searching out Selena. Remember she came from great wealth, and now she is in Camo, holds a gun like the boys, jumps from heights shooting, and has become a killing machine. Mr Lukeman takes her story one step further with Selena and her her emotional fight, dealing with what she has become,and having to decide if this is what she really wants....This made a marvelous story within a story and I applaud him for taking this time to add this to her character. The ‘Boys’ were all servicemen, special ops and had always said they had a different philosophy. Now Selena has to measure where she is going and what she wants.Alex Lukeman it is always a pleasure to read your work. You are a truly a wonderful storyteller and I await the next in your series…A wonderful addition.Review by Gloria LakritzReview Chair and Sr Reviewer of the Paranormal Romance Guild less

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