Psychic Warrior: Project Aura [Mass Market Paperback]

Robert Doherty (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 7, 2001

Mind control is only the first step...
World domination is the next...

Bright Gate. HAARP. Remote Viewers. U.S. military operations so top secret that not even the president knew they existed. Now they have produced an elite group of commandos able to leave their bodies — and their souls — to fight anywhere, anytime, using the devastating power of the human mind.

Sergeant Major Jimmy Dalton is one of them. An ex-Green Beret, a man with no family, no ties, and nothing to lose, Dalton believes that the most dangerous weapon in any arsenal is the mind.

Among the first Psychic Warriors to be battle tested on the virtual plane, Dalton has seen up close the damage and destruction that the new weapons can cause. The memory will haunt him the rest of his days.

But for Dalton, for all of us, those days are numbered. A psychic cabal called the Priory is striking without warning, killing without mercy, aiming for world domination. And infiltrating the Psychic Warriors themselves....

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

art science fiction and part military thriller, this complex novel will appeal to readers who prefer their suspense laced with technical jargon and brimming with blatant government wrongdoing. Doherty's sequel to last year's Psychic Warrior reintroduces the virtual soldier a warrior who can leave his or her body behind, go anywhere and do anything by harnessing the power of the mind and is loaded with faceless characters known only by their last names (e.g., General Eichen, Lieutenant Jackson). Sergeant Major Dalton, an ex-Green Beret and the hero of Doherty's first installment, is called upon to do battle against a psychic cabal known as the Priory, a mysterious group that strikes enemies without warning and strives for world domination. With the exception of Dalton, Doherty's underdeveloped characters fail to evoke the reader's sympathy, rendering the outcome of the psychic battles waged on various continents between U.S. freedom fighters and members of the Priory virtually irrelevant. Nevertheless, Doherty's portrayal of the U.S. government as a highly classified operation is as intriguing as it is disturbing, and detail-oriented readers will thrill to Doherty's cold, calculating and emotion-free prose. Those unused to this hard-edged style, however, may find his writing uncommonly dry and stiff.

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Review

“Part science fiction and part military thriller, this complex novel will appeal to readers who prefer their suspense laced with technical jargon and brimming with blatant government wrongdoing.... Doherty's portrayal of the U.S. government as a highly classified operation is as intriguing as it is disturbing, and detail-oriented readers will thrill to Doherty's cold, calculating and emotion-free prose.”
— Publishers Weekly


Also by Robert Doherty:

Psychic Warrior
Area 51: The Grail
Area 51: The Sphinx
Area 51: The Mission
Area 51: The Reply
Area 51: The Rock

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Dell (August 7, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440236266
• ISBN-13: 978-0440236269
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,130,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Doherty is the pen name of NY Times bestselling author Bob Mayer who has over 40 books published. He has over three million books in print and is in demand as a team-building, life-change, and leadership speaker and consultant. Bob graduated from West Point and served in the military as a Special Forces A-Team leader and a teacher at the JFK Special Warfare Center & School. His latest books are Warrior Writer: From Writer to Published Author, Wild Ride (co-written with Jennifer Crusie) and the episodic series Chasing The Ghost. He teaches novel writing and improving the author via his Warrior-Writer program. He is the Co-Creator of Who Dares Wins Publishing focusing on the non-fiction of excellence and military non-fiction and military fiction (thriller, romance, science fiction). He lives on an island off Seattle. For more information see www.bobmayer.org or www.WhoDaresWinsPublishing.com

He has the bestselling Area 51 and Atlantis series published along with Psychic Warrior.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Psychic Warrior, October 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Psychic Warrior (Mass Market Paperback)

Psychic Warrior: Another GOOD book from Robert Doherty (a.k.a. Bob Mayer). Bob keeps true to his fast paced action packed stories. I have read all of his books and this is definitely one of his better ones with a very intriguing story line. With all of the hype of Remote Viewing these days and the 95% of the Original Stargate program still classified - it makes one wonder what the Government is REALLY capable of. After all, the Government pumps BILLIONS of dollars into programs like these every year. Anyway, I recommend all of Bob Mayers books under all of his Aliases; Joe Dalton, Bob McGuire, Greg Donegan, Robert Doherty and of course Bob Mayer.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding thriller, August 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Psychic Warrior (Mass Market Paperback)

Loved the action. Loved the concept. This book made me think a lot about what might have already been done in this field. The author says it's based on a real program-- how real I want to know?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing story that's doomed by information overload, June 3, 2002

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coachtim (Indiana, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Psychic Warrior (Mass Market Paperback)

First of all, let me state for the record that I generally love any and all of Robert Doherty's works. I've read all of the Area 51 books and found them to be imaginative and believable enough to appear to be somewhat based in fact.

Sadly, I didn't find much to make "Psychic Warrior" a book I would recommend to Doherty's fans.

While the style of writing was Doherty's usual clear and consise manner, "Psychic Warrior" was dragged down by TOO MUCH information and not enough story! Doherty decided to spend the bulk of his story decribing how the psychic warriors were chosen, trained, and deployed and not enough time developing the plot. Doherty did a good job researching and creating the concept (in this case, soldiers who can use their minds to wage war), but the plot borders too much on the fantastic.

Here's hoping that the sequel to "Psychic Warrior" takes off early with a great plot and saves this series!