Another fast-paced, breathe if you can novel from this quite prolific author. The characters are developing with each novel – Nick is even being helped by a psychologist in his efforts to come to terms with dreams involving his part in the death of a young boy before the series began. All the usual players in the series are there, although one of them does actually get seriously injured in this episode, so seriously that they can take no further part in the incredible amount of action that occurs throughout the book.
Although it is certain quatrains of the Nostradamus Prophecies that set the team off on their adventures, those quatrains and the Ark of the Covenant are the substance of the plot, along with a megalomaniac who wants to set the countries of the Middle East against each other and reap the financial benefits from that.
The action involves the Middle East, France, England and the USA, as well as having an Israeli involvement. This is the only aspect that perplexes me as the rate of world travel has to be called into question at times. The author never lets this get in the way of a good story, but one example of this is after some excitement in the leafy countryside of England, the team is very quickly (say twenty-four hours) back in Washington, but in the same time a yacht has managed to convey its cargo from England to an island just off the coast of Maine!
Must have been able to go incredibly fast to achieve that!
Never mind, however, the story can stand it – just sit back and enjoy this rollicking novel. Roll on the next one! ( )

I really enjoy this little known series, many of which I have been able to download free. Good espionage books with the main group of characters from the Project. A good group of characters have been brought tofpgether that often interact with Russian or Israeli counterparts. Quite often there is a good backdrop to each book, in this case it is the lost predictions of Nostradamus so there was also a bit of code breaking in this. Also you have the relationship between two of the main protagonists which is a key part of the books and which adds to the reading experience. I will most definitely be continuing with the series. ( )