Books with author Al Carlson

THE PERFECT WEAPON HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN, AND IT CANNOT BE CONTROLLED. Jarrod Hawkins is not a man to be trifled with. His career in professional security has made him the perfect candidate for Project Nerium, an experimental program meant to create an unstoppable soldier. There’s only one thing standing in the way: Jarrod's will to live. After witnessing the darkest side of humanity on a protective detail overseas, Jarrod returns home and seeks a new life. He vows to leave his violent past behind and focus on what is really important—his wife and son. Tragedy strikes, and Jarrod slips into a vacuum of depression and PTSD. He is ushered into Hillcrest Trauma and Rehabilitation center, a special facility for patients with a top-level security clearance. While in treatment, he draws the attention of Dr. Wagner, the man in charge of Project Nerium. Jarrod is ushered into an underground facility where the world’s greatest minds use his body for biotechnological research. They use genetic engineering, nanomachinery, brainwashing, and next-generation armor to turn him into the most fearsome weapon the world has ever known. As they push the limits of human performance and lethality, they quickly learn their creation cannot be contained. Or controlled. **************** From the author: I absolutely love books by Michael Crichton, Robert Ludlum, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, Douglas E. Richards, David Baldacci, A.G. Riddle, and Lee Child. If these are some of your favorite authors, I bet you'll love this story. Note: Forging the Nightmare is book one of the upcoming Jarrod Hawkins Technothriller series

Have you ever felt the pressure to fit in? Back in her day, Grandma did too. She bought her clothes from The Hap and tried to be just like Mallory Emma McBane. Until Mallory started acting like Laura LaVan. Young readers will love Cami Carlson's fun, rhyming story that shows the silliness that comes from trying to be just like others. You too can learn to accept the truth when someone says, "Hey! You're Great!"

Author J. J. Carlson keeps up his trademark unrelenting pace with the next installment in the Jarrod Hawkins series, where science and technology give rise to a global conspiracy to change mankind forever. The Nightmare lives. He cannot be stopped, And he knows no mercy. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Jarrod Hawkins, a human weapon forged in a secret DARPA laboratory, returns to Africa seeking answers - and revenge. He leaves a trail of dead terrorists and human traffickers as he closes in on a powerful warlord. Then, Jarrod finds himself on a collision course with a pair of talented investigators - who happen to be two of his oldest friends. With the assistance of an anonymous benefactor, the investigators track their quarry, and they soon discover that the man they are hunting is more dangerous than they ever imagined. They consider abandoning the case and fleeing the country, but someone is secretly directing their every step, and they find themselves drawn toward an inevitable confrontation with The Nightmare. Meanwhile, Eugene Carver clashes with a secret organization behind a string of unprecedented terrorist attacks in the United States. As he and his teammates search for answers, they begin to realize exactly what they are up against: a global conspiracy decades in the making. Fear the Nightmare is a thrill-ride, following a dark hero in a disturbingly familiar world of human trafficking, conspiracy, and near-future technology. The hard science and breakneck pace will appeal to thriller, sci-fi, and suspense fans alike.

Summer Baseball Car Baseball Sock Ball Wall Ball The Time Tower: can you get older faster? The speed of light: can it be measured? A carp, washed up in the riberbank: what's inside? Larry, Witt, and Rafferty have a whole summer to play all the different kinds of baseball, to build structures in the backyard, to find out what makes the world tick. "We've got to keep busy," says Witt. I want to know everything. Not just part." Larry doesn't want to know what keeps him heading for Witt's backyard, rich with weeds and rotting appliances, whenever he's not at baseball practice. All he knows is that there's no one he'd rather be with than these two friends, that the chaos of Witt's universe offers refuge from his own orderly home and an entrance into a world of change, growth, and unpredictability. THE HOTEL EDEN author Ron Carlson's first novel for young readers is a heady immersion in the first moments of adolescence, when nothing is as it ever was before.

A Colorado mountaintop has been transformed into a self-sustaining utopia by a man who claims to be the second son of God. He has built a perfect city—a sanctuary for his most devoted followers. Heaven on earth. Holy Mountain.But the children trapped inside the high walls of Holy Mountain know the truth: this isn’t heaven, it’s hell. Cameron Rollins, a fourteen-year-old boy who grew up in the arms of the cult, sneaks out at night, climbs the wall, and calls for help. When he is captured, he knows the punishment will be severe. It wasn’t his first offense, and it won’t be his last. But this time, someone has heard his cry.Eric Larson has been tasked with retrieving a young girl trapped inside Holy Mountain. And when he records a video of Cameron crying for help, he plans to use the evidence to stop the depraved cultists once and for all. But Holy Mountain’s dark influence extends farther than he thought possible, and his hopes are dashed by a corrupt judicial system. The law has failed to protect the children trapped inside Holy Mountain, so Eric decides to take matters into his own hands. He will enter the city and gather undeniable proof of the wickedness inside. And if he fails, he will call upon the most dangerous vigilante the world has ever seen—a genetically enhanced assassin known as “The Nightmare.”