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Alex Lukeman Books in Order

Browse Alex Lukeman books in order, from The Project thrillers to his nonfiction, with short summaries, series guides, and easy help on where to start.

Last updated: July 6, 2026

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What Your Dreams Can Teach You

by Alex Lukeman

1990

A hands-on guide to understanding your own dreams, with tools, examples, and worksheets instead of canned dictionary meanings. Lukeman treats dream interpretation as personal work that can help with relationships, health, and everyday problems.

Beyond Blame

by Alex Lukeman

1996

This short self-help book argues that constant blaming hands your power to other people. Lukeman examines the habit, the damage it does, and how taking responsibility can change your life.

Nightmares

by Alex Lukeman

2000

Lukeman looks at why nightmares happen, how dream symbols work, and what recurring dark dreams may be trying to say. He also offers ways to reduce fear and find relief.

Dreams from the Other Side

by Alex Lukeman

2002

This book collects accounts of dreams in which the dead seem to return to the living. Lukeman explores how those experiences can bring comfort, connection, and a sense of healing after loss.

Sleep Well, Sleep Deep

by Alex Lukeman

2011

Lukeman offers practical advice on how better sleep changes mood, health, and daily life. It is a straightforward guide to rest, its benefits, and the cost of not getting enough of it.

The Lance

by Alex Lukeman

2011

A legendary weapon is recovered in Antarctica as terror hits Jerusalem and an old World War II plot reawakens in Washington. Nick and the Project race to stop the people who mean to use the Lance to start another world war.

White Jade

by Alex Lukeman

2011

After Selena Connor's wealthy uncle is tortured and killed over an ancient text on immortality, Project operative Nick Carter is assigned to protect her. Their hunt runs from California to Tibet and into a power struggle that could trigger war.

Black Harvest

by Alex Lukeman

2012

Clay tablets point to an ancient urn and a secret that could devastate the world's food supply. When experts are murdered, the Project follows a trail of greed, betrayal, and bioterror from Europe to America.

The Seventh Pillar

by Alex Lukeman

2012

A fanatic convinced he is meant to bring on the apocalypse sets a terrible weapon in motion. Nick and Selena chase the threat from Africa to San Diego to the Hindu Kush before war spreads.

The Tesla Secret

by Alex Lukeman

2012

Rumors of Tesla's death ray become deadly when hidden plans surface. Nick and Selena are hunted across Europe, Mexico, and Russia while a shadowy conspiracy moves to seize a weapon that could change the balance of power.

The Nostradamus File

by Alex Lukeman

2013

A murdered Paris bookseller leaves behind lost prophecies and a trail to the Ark of the Covenant. As the Project follows the clues into the Holy Land, Nick's PTSD begins to strain his future with Selena.

The Ajax Protocol

by Alex Lukeman

2014

After an assassination attempt sidelines the president, the Project is cut off and hunted by powerful enemies. Harker and her team go underground to stop a plot to turn America into a police state and drag the world into war.

The Eye of Shiva

by Alex Lukeman

2014

Gold coins found in a jihadist stronghold point to a conspiracy aiming to ignite war between India and Pakistan. Nick and Selena race through revenge, terrorism, and nuclear brinkmanship before millions pay the price.

Black Rose

by Alex Lukeman

2015

A plague resurrected from ancient bones is stolen from a secret lab in North Korea. With no cure and no margin for error, the Project must stop the disease before it is released on the world.

The Russian Deception

by Alex Lukeman

2015

Hardliners seize power in Moscow and a secret buildup pushes Russia and America toward catastrophe. Sent into the Balkans to read the real game, the Project uncovers a deception big enough to end civilization.

The Solomon Scroll

by Alex Lukeman

2015

An ancient scroll launches a search for Solomon's tomb and the lost treasure of the Second Temple. The Project follows the clues across the Middle East and Africa while a fanatic killer hunts the same prize for darker reasons.

The Atlantis Stone

by Alex Lukeman

2016

A century-old photograph and a faded map may point to Atlantis and a lost artifact of immense power. The Project's search runs from the Atlantic to Egypt while rival Russian interests and ruthless climbers close in.

The Cup

by Alex Lukeman

2016

After a Swedish spy is brutally killed, the Project hunts an ISIS-linked network and a fourth-century artifact tied to the Holy Grail. An old prophecy says disaster follows if the relic falls into the wrong hands.

High Alert

by Alex Lukeman

2017

A U.S. missile sub is sunk, the Chinese ambassador is murdered, and North Korea prepares a terrible attack. The Project is sent after the unseen hand behind it all before revenge and miscalculation turn into nuclear war.

Solomon's Gold

by Alex Lukeman

2017

Selena decodes a scroll in a New York museum and uncovers clues to Solomon's hidden treasure. What should be an archaeological hunt becomes another deadly Project mission, with betrayal stalking the expedition and a separate plot unfolding in the city.

Phoenix

by Alex Lukeman

2018

Asked to investigate a suspicious naval collision, Harker finds the assignment is a trap. A secret group is using a hostile AI and global cyberattacks to drive China, Russia, and America toward a war no one can survive.

The Last Option

by Alex Lukeman

2018

A cabal betting on survival after nuclear holocaust moves to light the fuse itself. The aging Project team fights to stop the plot while political enemies, assassins, and threats to Nick and Selena's family close in.

The Black Templar

by Alex Lukeman

2019

With the Project shut down and Selena out of the field, a coded Templar document pulls the team back in. What starts as a treasure hunt in Portugal becomes a fight to keep a far darker secret from a murderous order.

The Sword

by Alex Lukeman

2019

Now operating privately, Harker's team is hired to find a famed Japanese sword lost after World War II. The search leads Nick and Selena into old grudges, fresh murders, and a secret worth killing for.

End Game

by Alex Lukeman

2020

Terrorists steal four strategic nuclear bombs and leave the Project a thin trail on the Gulf Coast. Behind them stands a dying conspirator who wants Armageddon and a brutal new world order.

The Lair of Anubis

by Alex Lukeman

2020

A papyrus about Cleopatra points to the lost tomb of Alexander the Great. The Project heads to Egypt, where a secret cult guards the site and Nick and Selena must survive one more mission before deciding what comes next.

City of Gold

by Alex Lukeman

2021

Harker's now-private team escorts an expedition into the Amazon in search of Paititi, the lost city of gold. Rebels, predators, a traitor, and the jungle itself make getting out even harder than getting in.

The Enemy

by Alex Lukeman

2022

A neuroscientist's programmable protein could heal disease or become a tool of total control. When a cabal plots to infect the world, the Project faces a brutal fight to stop mass coercion and worldwide tyranny.

The Russian Woman

by Alex Lukeman

2022

Russian defense colonel Anya Volkova learns of a plan for a first strike on America just as her own life begins to crack. CIA officer Michael Thorne is sent to contact her, and duty quickly tangles with trust and attraction.

Red Banner

by Alex Lukeman

2023

A meeting about a black-market warhead goes wrong and sends Michael Thorne from Serbia to Taipei. As China blames Taiwan for a naval disaster, he has to untangle the setup before it becomes nuclear war.

Joshua's Trumpet

by Alex Lukeman

2025

A dig in Egypt uncovers the trail of an ancient weapon said to make world domination possible. Nick, Selena, and the Project face a murderous aristocrat who believes dark voices are guiding him.

Where should I start?

If you want the main Project story from the start: White JadeThe LanceThe Seventh Pillar
If you like relic hunts and ancient secrets: The Tesla SecretThe Nostradamus FileThe CupThe Lair of Anubis
If you want later Project books with bigger geopolitical stakes: High AlertPhoenixThe EnemyJoshua's Trumpet
If you want his newer straight spy series: The Russian WomanRed Banner
If you're here for the nonfiction: What Your Dreams Can Teach YouNightmaresDreams from the Other Side

Author bio

Alex Lukeman was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, mostly in and around that city. Long before he became known for globe-trotting thrillers, he was the kind of reader who moved easily between mystery, fantasy, mind-body books, and adventure. That mix still shows up in his fiction, where ancient history and hard-edged action often share the same page.

Before he was a novelist, he lived a few different lives.

He served in the Marines, later worked as a professional musician, and eventually became a psychotherapist. Those jobs left marks. The military background helps explain the matter-of-fact way his thrillers handle weapons, fieldcraft, and pressure. The years spent listening to people as a therapist also seem to have deepened his interest in fear, memory, dreams, and the stories people tell themselves just to keep going.

He began writing full time in 2006. By then he had already moved through enough different worlds to know how useful lived experience can be on the page. He has said that many things in his fiction grow out of personal experience, and that helps explain why even his wildest plots often feel physically concrete.

His first books were nonfiction. In What Your Dreams Can Teach You, Nightmares, Dreams from the Other Side, and Sleep Well, Sleep Deep, he wrote about dreams, sleep, and the inner life in plain, practical language. Even when the subject gets mystical, his tone stays grounded. He seems more interested in what an experience means to ordinary people than in showing off a theory.

Then he made a sharp turn into thrillers.

That turn produced White Jade, the first Project novel, and it set the pattern for much of what came after. Nick Carter, Selena Connor, and the rest of the Project team move through stories that mix covert operations, ancient texts, hidden relics, terrorist plots, and the constant risk of war. Books like The Lance, The Tesla Secret, The Nostradamus File, and High Alert show what readers come to him for: fast movement, high stakes, and a taste for history that does not stay in museums.

He also kept going. A lot.

Across the Project books, and later in the Michael Thorne novels such as The Russian Woman and Red Banner, Lukeman returns to a few favorite pressures. He likes characters who are good at dangerous work but pay for it at home. He likes scholars pulled into violence, spies used by larger machines, and old secrets colliding with present-day power struggles. His settings jump from Tibet to Jerusalem, from the Sea of Japan to the Amazon, but the tension usually comes down to the same question: who gets to control the future, and what are they willing to burn to do it?

Some plain facts tell the story of his career, too. The Tesla Secret won the Best Indie Book Award in 2013, and High Alert won the same award in 2017. Those books sit comfortably beside the rest of his work because they capture his usual balance of military suspense, historical mystery, and end-of-the-wire urgency.

These days he lives in the Sierra foothills of Northern California. He still likes old, fast motorcycles and playing guitar, which feels exactly right for a writer whose books are always in motion. That mix of Marine, musician, therapist, and thriller writer explains a lot about the feel of his work.

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