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Pike Logan #3
Enemy of Mine
A tentative peace between Israel and Palestine has been brokered by the United States. But the Taskforce—a clandestine team operating outside of US law to protect the country from terrorism—hears of an assassination attempt on the American envoy sent to solidify the treaty. The Taskforce must devote every resource to saving his life—and preventing another bloody outbreak of violence.
Taskforce operator Pike Logan and his partner, Jennifer Cahill, must hunt down the assassin through the Middle East, following a trail that becomes more perilous at every turn. And they must deal with terrorist organizations, independent killers, and shaky allies to uncover the biggest threat of all: an American citizen hiding a secret that just may destroy everything, including the Taskforce.
Taskforce operator Pike Logan and his partner, Jennifer Cahill, must hunt down the assassin through the Middle East, following a trail that becomes more perilous at every turn. And they must deal with terrorist organizations, independent killers, and shaky allies to uncover the biggest threat of all: an American citizen hiding a secret that just may destroy everything, including the Taskforce.
544 pages, Paperback
First published January 15, 2013
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Brad Taylor
48 books2,545 followersBrad Taylor served for more than twenty-one years in the U.S. Army, retiring in 2010 as a Special Forces Lieutenant colonel. During that time he held numerous infantry and special operations positions, including eight years in 1st Special Forces Operations Detachment—Delta, popularly known as the Delta Force, where he commanded multiple troops and a squadron.
He has conducted operations in support of U.S. national interests in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other classified locations. His final military post was as Assistant Professor of Military Science at The Citadel. He holds a master's of science in defense analysis with a concentration in irregular warfare from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.
When not writing, Brad serves as a security consultant on asymmetric threats to various agencies. He currently lives in Charleston, SC, with his wife and two daughters.
He has conducted operations in support of U.S. national interests in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other classified locations. His final military post was as Assistant Professor of Military Science at The Citadel. He holds a master's of science in defense analysis with a concentration in irregular warfare from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.
When not writing, Brad serves as a security consultant on asymmetric threats to various agencies. He currently lives in Charleston, SC, with his wife and two daughters.
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December 10, 2021
3.5⭐
NO. DEAL Yes!! so sweet when the bad guy gets what he deserves. I wasn't expecting that from Pike Logan, dark, fierce, at the same time justifiable. Wait, ...and Tom Cruise hanging from the side of the Burj Khalifa?! 😁 As always a lot of traveling, including UAE.
I had a little issue with the pace, the middle was slow-moving, and wish it's tighter, but overall another entertaining adventure with the third in the series.
NO. DEAL Yes!! so sweet when the bad guy gets what he deserves. I wasn't expecting that from Pike Logan, dark, fierce, at the same time justifiable. Wait, ...and Tom Cruise hanging from the side of the Burj Khalifa?! 😁 As always a lot of traveling, including UAE.
I had a little issue with the pace, the middle was slow-moving, and wish it's tighter, but overall another entertaining adventure with the third in the series.
April 3, 2024
If you want action this series is the one to read and this books carries the banner high. Pike and Jennifer, along with the task force team are on the move. They are on a mission to keep a dignitary safe in spite of himself. It is tough enough working within the parameters that have been set by the committee overseeing them but now they have two adversaries to deal with, including someone from their collective past. Their old nemesis, Luke, pops back into the picture and puts a wrench in their actions to hinder there progress. In the midst of this there is underlying currents between Pike and Jennifer resulting in an augmentation of fury when evil deeds are done. I do not want to tip my hand by being too detailed with the plot, so I will tell my fellow GR readers to put this on their To Read List.
May 23, 2025
Omega Authority
Pike and Jennifer were ready to go on an honest to goodness archeological expedition, when suddenly the Task Force gets spun up for a mission.
Chasing down one terrorist, they run into yet another. Only one is imminently deadly, or are they both equally as dangerous? The Taskforce travels around the world hot on the heels of the world’s most deadly terrorists, then one of them makes it personal. Things will really get ugly now.
Brad Taylor has a great set of characters in this series, and I am hooked! Five stars.
Pike and Jennifer were ready to go on an honest to goodness archeological expedition, when suddenly the Task Force gets spun up for a mission.
Chasing down one terrorist, they run into yet another. Only one is imminently deadly, or are they both equally as dangerous? The Taskforce travels around the world hot on the heels of the world’s most deadly terrorists, then one of them makes it personal. Things will really get ugly now.
Brad Taylor has a great set of characters in this series, and I am hooked! Five stars.
February 6, 2017
Another excellent story with a just end for one deserving. 7 of 10 stars
August 16, 2013
Enemy of Mine Is the third book in the Pike Logan series, and the conclusion of a story arc. The author, former Delta Force operator Brad Taylor tops himself and turns what could have ended up as a cliché assassination story, into a roaring tale of revenge, terrorism and shocking surprises that will blindside you. Despite the scope being reduced with no epic threat like in the previous novel, Enemy of Mine is a more personal story for Pike and Jennifer and shakes up the character interaction between them in a compelling way.
In the beginning, we meet an assassin codenamed “infidel” who sets up an innovative death trap in Holland for a potential threat to Hezbollah. Back in America, Pike Logan is having a bad dream, watching his family get murdered, the crime still unsolved. Meanwhile in Washington, plans are made to broker a lasting peace deal between Palestinian moderates and Israel, with the innovative addition of a $20 million bribe to set the agreement in stone. An envoy is sent over to the Middle East, covertly but unfortunately, word gets out. As a result, a disgruntled Palestinian nationalist makes a reluctant deal with certain “special interest” groups to provide him with the backing to kill the envoy and in his mind, protect his dream of a Palestinian state. However,” infidel” learns about this, and angry at being left out goes rouge, attempting to do the job and get the $20 million for his retirement fund. Getting wind of the situation, the Taskforce is deployed to Lebanon in order to eliminate the threat to the envoy, a job which suddenly becomes personal to Pike and Jennifer Cahill when they find out the true identity of one of the assassins. All these plot threads come together in a crescendo of deception, fanaticism and revenge with Pike on the final stage of his redemption and facing a tempting opportunity for revenge that may finally wipe away the stains of the past.
Plot wise, Enemy Of Mine shakes things up. Taylor drags Pike and Jenifer through hell and back at unexpected times throughout the story and despite winning the day at the end, both don’t come out intact. The action is a little more toned down from the last book but only a little. From the opening assassination in Holland to Hezbollah’s torture chamber and office in Lebanon to a gut wrenching climax In Qatar’s Four Seasons hotel, Enemy Of Mine delivers constant shocks that will leave you breathless. In Pike Logan’s world, you can only ever expect the unexpected. Innovative technology once again plays a big part in Enemy Of Mine, the Taskforce once again bringing its formidable surveillance and hacking capabilities into play, and the Palestinian assassin deploying a very innovative device which is designed to make his targets elevator fall to earth, hard. Said device is also made by the most notorious real life bomb maker in Al Qaeda who makes an off page cameo in the story. At the same time, Taylor attempts to pick apart the Palestinian problem, a geopolitical issue that has driven many insane, with moderately successful results. Taylor also tries to show with surprising frankness, the Lebanese perspective of the 2006 Israeli invasion, and pulls it off showing the human and geopolitical cost of it, with much of the country falling into the seductive embrace of the Iranian backed Hezbollah. He successfully demonstrates through the Palestinian assassin, “The Ghost” that contrary to the stereotype, Islamist terrorists aren’t one big happy family but instead have different priorities and levels of fanaticism from each other. But the most important of the many themes in the story is revenge. Taylor tries to juxtapose Pike’s opportunity for revenge with the nagging fear that he’ll become the monster who so thoroughly ruined his life back in One Rough Man.
But like the previous Pike Logan books, it’s the great characters that shine and Brad Taylor takes them to interesting places. Pike’s fully resettled into his job as a member of the Taskforce and has almost recovered psychologically from the murder of his family. However, he’s still the dangerously competent operator who can out think and out gun the forces against him on the fly. The Taskforce also gets in new member in the form of Brett, the CIA SAD officer who kicked off the events of the previous novel and provides much needed comic relief at times when Enemy Of Mine is at its darkest. But out of the protagonists, once again, its Jennifer Cahill, former hysterical college student and now badass who steals the show and runs away with it. From putting together a successful rescue mission to save Pike from Hezbollah operatives to breaking the dangerously sociopathic “Infidel’s” nose, she’s fully developed into a sensitive, yet extremely lethal female protagonist, a true rarity in what is a genre dominated by John Rambo clones. The villains are also given a chance to shine, the “Infidel”, being someone we’ve all come to hate and has become even more demented than usual. In a pivotal scene, he hurts one of the Taskforce members in a ghastly way you won’t expect. But the best villain would have to be the Palestinian nationalist “The Ghost”, a true standout. Taylor has made what could have been a run of the mill Islamist fanatic into a surprisingly sympathetic character whose motivations are almost understandable. He’s also an Islamic equivalent of Forsyth’s “Jackal” and savvy enough to give the Taskforce a run for its money.
Now comes the critiquing, the crucial reveal of one of the assassin's true identities was slightly anti climatic and previous readers will see who he is from a long way off, but apart from that, the story was lovely.
Overall, Enemy Of mine is a superb closure to a story arc and one of the best revenge tales since the late Vince Flynn’s Consent To Kill. Brad Taylor has found his place in the top tier of thriller novelists with his excellent plots, nuanced grasp on geopolitics and some of the best characters to grace a saturated genre, I readily recommend the Pike Logan saga to anyone who’s tired of re-reading their old Tom Clancy novels and cynical about wasting their money “on the same old thing” in the kindle store. In my opinion, it’s one of the best thrillers of 2013….for now. Because in the next book, “The Widow’s Strike”, which has just been released, Taylor tackles the terrifying world of bio warfare… and a virus which could leave us quite dead in the wrong hands…..
In the beginning, we meet an assassin codenamed “infidel” who sets up an innovative death trap in Holland for a potential threat to Hezbollah. Back in America, Pike Logan is having a bad dream, watching his family get murdered, the crime still unsolved. Meanwhile in Washington, plans are made to broker a lasting peace deal between Palestinian moderates and Israel, with the innovative addition of a $20 million bribe to set the agreement in stone. An envoy is sent over to the Middle East, covertly but unfortunately, word gets out. As a result, a disgruntled Palestinian nationalist makes a reluctant deal with certain “special interest” groups to provide him with the backing to kill the envoy and in his mind, protect his dream of a Palestinian state. However,” infidel” learns about this, and angry at being left out goes rouge, attempting to do the job and get the $20 million for his retirement fund. Getting wind of the situation, the Taskforce is deployed to Lebanon in order to eliminate the threat to the envoy, a job which suddenly becomes personal to Pike and Jennifer Cahill when they find out the true identity of one of the assassins. All these plot threads come together in a crescendo of deception, fanaticism and revenge with Pike on the final stage of his redemption and facing a tempting opportunity for revenge that may finally wipe away the stains of the past.
Plot wise, Enemy Of Mine shakes things up. Taylor drags Pike and Jenifer through hell and back at unexpected times throughout the story and despite winning the day at the end, both don’t come out intact. The action is a little more toned down from the last book but only a little. From the opening assassination in Holland to Hezbollah’s torture chamber and office in Lebanon to a gut wrenching climax In Qatar’s Four Seasons hotel, Enemy Of Mine delivers constant shocks that will leave you breathless. In Pike Logan’s world, you can only ever expect the unexpected. Innovative technology once again plays a big part in Enemy Of Mine, the Taskforce once again bringing its formidable surveillance and hacking capabilities into play, and the Palestinian assassin deploying a very innovative device which is designed to make his targets elevator fall to earth, hard. Said device is also made by the most notorious real life bomb maker in Al Qaeda who makes an off page cameo in the story. At the same time, Taylor attempts to pick apart the Palestinian problem, a geopolitical issue that has driven many insane, with moderately successful results. Taylor also tries to show with surprising frankness, the Lebanese perspective of the 2006 Israeli invasion, and pulls it off showing the human and geopolitical cost of it, with much of the country falling into the seductive embrace of the Iranian backed Hezbollah. He successfully demonstrates through the Palestinian assassin, “The Ghost” that contrary to the stereotype, Islamist terrorists aren’t one big happy family but instead have different priorities and levels of fanaticism from each other. But the most important of the many themes in the story is revenge. Taylor tries to juxtapose Pike’s opportunity for revenge with the nagging fear that he’ll become the monster who so thoroughly ruined his life back in One Rough Man.
But like the previous Pike Logan books, it’s the great characters that shine and Brad Taylor takes them to interesting places. Pike’s fully resettled into his job as a member of the Taskforce and has almost recovered psychologically from the murder of his family. However, he’s still the dangerously competent operator who can out think and out gun the forces against him on the fly. The Taskforce also gets in new member in the form of Brett, the CIA SAD officer who kicked off the events of the previous novel and provides much needed comic relief at times when Enemy Of Mine is at its darkest. But out of the protagonists, once again, its Jennifer Cahill, former hysterical college student and now badass who steals the show and runs away with it. From putting together a successful rescue mission to save Pike from Hezbollah operatives to breaking the dangerously sociopathic “Infidel’s” nose, she’s fully developed into a sensitive, yet extremely lethal female protagonist, a true rarity in what is a genre dominated by John Rambo clones. The villains are also given a chance to shine, the “Infidel”, being someone we’ve all come to hate and has become even more demented than usual. In a pivotal scene, he hurts one of the Taskforce members in a ghastly way you won’t expect. But the best villain would have to be the Palestinian nationalist “The Ghost”, a true standout. Taylor has made what could have been a run of the mill Islamist fanatic into a surprisingly sympathetic character whose motivations are almost understandable. He’s also an Islamic equivalent of Forsyth’s “Jackal” and savvy enough to give the Taskforce a run for its money.
Now comes the critiquing, the crucial reveal of one of the assassin's true identities was slightly anti climatic and previous readers will see who he is from a long way off, but apart from that, the story was lovely.
Overall, Enemy Of mine is a superb closure to a story arc and one of the best revenge tales since the late Vince Flynn’s Consent To Kill. Brad Taylor has found his place in the top tier of thriller novelists with his excellent plots, nuanced grasp on geopolitics and some of the best characters to grace a saturated genre, I readily recommend the Pike Logan saga to anyone who’s tired of re-reading their old Tom Clancy novels and cynical about wasting their money “on the same old thing” in the kindle store. In my opinion, it’s one of the best thrillers of 2013….for now. Because in the next book, “The Widow’s Strike”, which has just been released, Taylor tackles the terrifying world of bio warfare… and a virus which could leave us quite dead in the wrong hands…..
February 3, 2013
Very disappointing. I loved the first 2 Pike Logan novels. This one however just left me cold. It was so complicated, with so many bad guys, it was hard to keep things straight. The whole first third of the book is character development for bad guys, one of them who doesn't even have anything to do with this book at all! I couldn't figure out which of the other 2 bad guys was doing what, most of the time. This story was really convoluted and confusing, with little to redeem it in the end.
July 30, 2022
I recently made a second attempt to read Brad Taylor's PIKE LOGAN series, as I had been out of touch with it for many years. Re-reading ONE ROUGH MAN and ALL NECESSARY FORCE reminded me why I loved Taylor's writing, and I pushed on to ENEMY OF MINE, the third installment in the series.
In this installment, the Taskforce is tasked with tracking down a mysterious Palestinian assassin known only as The Ghost, who wishes to assassinate the US Secretary of State while he visits the UAE before proceeding to Qatar to deliver a payment to the Palestinian Authority in order to facilitate the Palestinian/Israel peace process. Simultaneously, a familiar enemy from the past returns in the form of the Infidel, who wishes to stop The Ghost in order to later intercept SECSTATE and steal the payment for a big payday. The stakes rise quickly and the mission becomes personal as the book blasts its way to its conclusion.
Watching Nephilim "Pike" Logan develop as a character has been nothing short of pleasurable and satisfying, as a reader. When we first meet Logan in ONE ROUGH MAN, he is a former Delta Force operator who had been working for the Taskforce before his family was brutally murdered. He works his way back into the Taskforce through the events of that book, and becomes an affiliate who runs a cover company that facilitates Taskforce movement in denied areas.
When we see Pike in ENEMY OF MINE, he is still haunted by the death of his family and is itching for a chance to kill the perpetrator. His propensity for violence is tempered by Jennifer Cahill, the acrobatic civilian whom he first saved in ONE ROUGH MAN before she came into her own as a Taskforce asset. Both of them confront their worst fears throughout the book, and Taylor masterfully navigates the reader through the harrowing experience.
The plot is completely plausible, and the action is gripping, tense, and grounded in reality. Both of these are to be expected, as Taylor spent over twenty years in the military, retiring as a Delta Force squadron commander. However, he also displays that his strength is not merely coming up with plausible scenarios, but also exploring the psyches of operators and writing well-written characters, a feat many SOF veterans-turned-writers fall short attempting to achieve.
ENEMY OF MINE shows that Taylor is here to stay on the thriller scene, and his work is absolutely deserving of making his name a household one.
In this installment, the Taskforce is tasked with tracking down a mysterious Palestinian assassin known only as The Ghost, who wishes to assassinate the US Secretary of State while he visits the UAE before proceeding to Qatar to deliver a payment to the Palestinian Authority in order to facilitate the Palestinian/Israel peace process. Simultaneously, a familiar enemy from the past returns in the form of the Infidel, who wishes to stop The Ghost in order to later intercept SECSTATE and steal the payment for a big payday. The stakes rise quickly and the mission becomes personal as the book blasts its way to its conclusion.
Watching Nephilim "Pike" Logan develop as a character has been nothing short of pleasurable and satisfying, as a reader. When we first meet Logan in ONE ROUGH MAN, he is a former Delta Force operator who had been working for the Taskforce before his family was brutally murdered. He works his way back into the Taskforce through the events of that book, and becomes an affiliate who runs a cover company that facilitates Taskforce movement in denied areas.
When we see Pike in ENEMY OF MINE, he is still haunted by the death of his family and is itching for a chance to kill the perpetrator. His propensity for violence is tempered by Jennifer Cahill, the acrobatic civilian whom he first saved in ONE ROUGH MAN before she came into her own as a Taskforce asset. Both of them confront their worst fears throughout the book, and Taylor masterfully navigates the reader through the harrowing experience.
The plot is completely plausible, and the action is gripping, tense, and grounded in reality. Both of these are to be expected, as Taylor spent over twenty years in the military, retiring as a Delta Force squadron commander. However, he also displays that his strength is not merely coming up with plausible scenarios, but also exploring the psyches of operators and writing well-written characters, a feat many SOF veterans-turned-writers fall short attempting to achieve.
ENEMY OF MINE shows that Taylor is here to stay on the thriller scene, and his work is absolutely deserving of making his name a household one.
October 31, 2023
I love espionage and techno thrillers, but this one was just TOO technical!
The writing was stilted: a lot of tell but not show! The characters were dull and flat. I couldn't keep track of all the tactical jargon nor the convoluted plot and numerous settings.
I think I will go with Brad Thor, Ben Coes,Nelson DeMille, and Vincent Flynn for the espionage/terrorists thriller genre!
In fairness, I admit I thoroughly enjoyed the first two entries in the Pike Logan series, however. This one may just be an outlier. Pike Logan is an interesting three dimensional, dynamic character! I will try the fourth installment and hope it is more “reader friendly” for non- techies!
The writing was stilted: a lot of tell but not show! The characters were dull and flat. I couldn't keep track of all the tactical jargon nor the convoluted plot and numerous settings.
I think I will go with Brad Thor, Ben Coes,Nelson DeMille, and Vincent Flynn for the espionage/terrorists thriller genre!
In fairness, I admit I thoroughly enjoyed the first two entries in the Pike Logan series, however. This one may just be an outlier. Pike Logan is an interesting three dimensional, dynamic character! I will try the fourth installment and hope it is more “reader friendly” for non- techies!
November 28, 2021
Book Review - I really enjoy the way Brad Taylor weaves operational detail into his story telling, the thinking process and mental gymnastics, as well as good and interesting characters. Plus there are always a surprise twist or two and the good guy doesn't always make it in time - Pike and the team aren't always perfect but they do get the mission done. Brad Taylor knows his ‘stuff’ and does an outstanding job in conveying it in page turning action novels. I had to go back and read his earlier novels and they are just as good as the current ones. Taylor is definitely a Top 10 Action Thriller author!
January 15, 2016
I should have stuck with my previous impression of Brad Taylor's Pike Logan in "All Necessary Force". The summaries sound interesting and it seems like it should be a good story, but the reality for me is much different. Too much detail and not enough action throughout. Not until the last couple chapters did it get exciting when winding up the plot. It seems not worth the investment.
September 5, 2016
Liked, not loved, this book. Love Pike and Jennifer and the Taskforce team. The plot was a bit confusing and murky for me. Not my fave but still a fan!
January 26, 2023
Fast Action
Brad Taylor strikes again with a fast paced winner. Like other books of his, Taylor takes the reader on an international adventure.
Loved the book
Brad Taylor strikes again with a fast paced winner. Like other books of his, Taylor takes the reader on an international adventure.
Loved the book
January 27, 2017
Wow, this book went from good to better and gave us a little insight into the mental attitude of people when things happen to the ones they love. We, as readers, are taken on a ride and, as a rider, I enjoyed the story, the action and the potential that anything can happen. This was not an escape from reality, this was an insight into reality. There are many bad people out there and many good people with government organizations hired/tasked to do action.
January 25, 2013
The site only allows whole stars, actual rating 3 1/4 stars, probably generous. Agree with commenter Eric. I have enjoyed this series to date but struggled to stay with this one. Slow and drawn out. Some parts good, some down right boring and some parts very good. Hard to stay interested.
December 7, 2023
Awesome book! Love the tandem bad guys! Really well written action scenes. And I appreciate some of the "off camera" scenes. I've been to Dubai several times and felt he captured it well. Believe me, I'' glad I waited until I returned from my last trip before reading this! Highly recommended!
May 8, 2018
Disappointing installment in usually reliable Pike Logan series. We get some answers to some long-standing questions but the plot and action scenes are a step down from previous books plus it's missing the fun interplay between characters. Hoping this the exception to the series.
March 20, 2013
Brad Taylor, a retired Special Forces officer, has shown a flair for believable plots and action in his Pike Logan series. Enemy of Mine, book 3 in the series, is no exception. If you like Vince Flynn and Brad Thor, you should be snapping up Taylor's books, which are set in the same type of universe. This is the world of terrorists and assassins who are trying to kill Americans.
Pike Logan is a member of the Taskforce, a super secret joint military operation formed of leading members of the special forces, Delta, CIA, Seals and other members of the armed forces. The primary mission is to track down enemies of the United States, and if needed execute them with extreme prejudice or capture them for information.
Logan and his partner Jennifer are in the Middle East for a bit of R & R when they stumble on a plot. A secret militant group of Hezbollah has hired an assassin to kill the American Envoy so as to scuttle any attempt at peace in the Middle East, but they want the murder to occur away from Lebanon. Meanwhile, another of their assassins, a traitorous ex member of the US armed forces, is also on the hunt. He wants to stop the Hezbollah plan so he can get money carried by the envoy.
Two assassins, Hezbollah terrorists, Druse militia men, the Taskforce agents, the United States envoy and enough action and twists in the plot to satisfy any action fan.
This is top notch entertainment.
Do not miss it.
Pike Logan is a member of the Taskforce, a super secret joint military operation formed of leading members of the special forces, Delta, CIA, Seals and other members of the armed forces. The primary mission is to track down enemies of the United States, and if needed execute them with extreme prejudice or capture them for information.
Logan and his partner Jennifer are in the Middle East for a bit of R & R when they stumble on a plot. A secret militant group of Hezbollah has hired an assassin to kill the American Envoy so as to scuttle any attempt at peace in the Middle East, but they want the murder to occur away from Lebanon. Meanwhile, another of their assassins, a traitorous ex member of the US armed forces, is also on the hunt. He wants to stop the Hezbollah plan so he can get money carried by the envoy.
Two assassins, Hezbollah terrorists, Druse militia men, the Taskforce agents, the United States envoy and enough action and twists in the plot to satisfy any action fan.
This is top notch entertainment.
Do not miss it.
April 8, 2024
The 3rd in the series about a SF/CT operation in the shadow fringes of government...very Brad Thor/Vince Flynn-ish series...I like the characters and generally identify politically with the author's tone...in this one, Taylor has Pike & the Taskforce confront a threat to what's left of a ME peace process...it involves an old enemy from the past as well as a dyed-in-the-wool ME terrorist...Taylor also ties up some loose ends & solidifies some relationships...basically a satisfying read!
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July 28, 2013I like Taylor's terrorist hunter, Pike Logan. Everything about him. His sense of duty. His dogged pursuit of mission. His no BS approach to the rules. So, I wanted to like this installment in the series, and I did. Enough to finish. But not as much as the first two. The focus on what the Taskforce was/was not authorized to do seemed oppressive and at times I felt like the stakes - the life of a U.S. Middle East peace envoy - were not immediate enough.
March 25, 2013
Here's another Vince Flynn like book about terrorists and a US clandestine group committed to terminating terrorists. I have dumped it because it is choppy, has poor transitions, keeping switching characters, and has unrealistic characters.
September 12, 2014
Third entry in the Pike Logan series is a confused jumble. Pike and Jennifer argue for a while, then get ordered to the Middle East, where they stumble into a number of conspiracies to kill a diplomat.
A confused novel, but mostly entertaining.
A confused novel, but mostly entertaining.
February 22, 2020
2 stars, I am starting to become a Taylor fan. But this book just did not work, could have cut half of it out. The first 2 Pike books were great, especially the second book in the Pike series. Hope the next is better.
May 26, 2018
I am still disappointed with the character of Jennifer. It was okay read nothing drastically different from this authors other books.
March 13, 2021
The introspection, the growth in writing. Can't put down this kind of excellence.
August 19, 2021
finished this one 19 august 2021 good read four stars really liked it kindle owned and i'd read one of the stories that follows this and came away unscathed knowing what happens to one of the main characters in that one was not a hindrance to enjoying this story. now i need to go and find some more taylor-brad that i have not read, have read some maybe even quite a few but i do not think the end is in sight.
October 12, 2018
#3 in the Pike Logan series. This 2013 series entry from author Taylor follows in the subgenre staked out by the late authors Tom Clancy and Vince Flynn (and their successors), Brad Thor, and Ben Coes. As a retired Delta Force Lt. Col., Taylor brings a lot of authenticity to his novel but perhaps it is too much of a good thing. I was overwhelmed with mid-East locations, political factions and hard to follow Arabic character names, street names and even mall names. All of this appeared from the very beginning and while I eventually got it digested and began to enjoy the novel, I had been tempted to pitch it. It did not help clarity that the story was told from the point of view of Pike, Jennifer, the Ghost, the Infidel, and Kurt Hale at various times. Great action sequences, especially in the second half.
The mission takes Pike Logan, love interest Jennifer Cahill (now a seasoned warrior), and other members of Taskforce, "a counterterrorism organization made up of the best operators from the special mission units of the Department of Defense and the national clandestine service of the CIA," to Dubai, where embittered Palestinian Abdul Rahman (aka the Ghost) is concocting a clever plan involving an elevator and explosives to assassinate Jeffrey McMasters, the new U.S. peace envoy to the region. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Pike, the terrorist known as Infidel also has an interest in McMasters and the peace mission.
The mission takes Pike Logan, love interest Jennifer Cahill (now a seasoned warrior), and other members of Taskforce, "a counterterrorism organization made up of the best operators from the special mission units of the Department of Defense and the national clandestine service of the CIA," to Dubai, where embittered Palestinian Abdul Rahman (aka the Ghost) is concocting a clever plan involving an elevator and explosives to assassinate Jeffrey McMasters, the new U.S. peace envoy to the region. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Pike, the terrorist known as Infidel also has an interest in McMasters and the peace mission.
May 2, 2020
If the reader is a fan of Pike Logan, Taskforce Operator extraordinaire, as I am, this story will show him to be the same loose cannon that he has been in other books. Brad Taylor does a good job of keeping the suspense mounting throughout.
I found the book to be a bit much, though. Unless one is familiar with, and can keep up with the Palestine and Israel disputes, and the Middle East, Hezbollah, Qatar, Dubai, Beirut and Abu Dhabi, one really needs to be paying attention. On top of that, just to thicken the plot, there are two bad guy assassins. They are against each other as well as against everyone else, which makes it a bit more difficult to know who is doing what to whom.
Logan's partner in this [almost impossible] endeavor is a beautiful - what else- woman who is as experienced as the best of them- and even better, which makes her role as good as it gets!
I found the book to be a bit much, though. Unless one is familiar with, and can keep up with the Palestine and Israel disputes, and the Middle East, Hezbollah, Qatar, Dubai, Beirut and Abu Dhabi, one really needs to be paying attention. On top of that, just to thicken the plot, there are two bad guy assassins. They are against each other as well as against everyone else, which makes it a bit more difficult to know who is doing what to whom.
Logan's partner in this [almost impossible] endeavor is a beautiful - what else- woman who is as experienced as the best of them- and even better, which makes her role as good as it gets!
March 9, 2016
REVIEW OF AUDIOBOOK; MARCH 8, 2016
Narrators: Henry Strozier & Rich Orlow
Much of the book was rather unclear to me and just a jumble of Middle-eastern bad guys with Pike and his team stuck in the midst. There were 2 main threads, for me that is - one involving the baddies in general and their intentions to scuttle the Peace Plan, and the other between Pike and Jennifer, with Lucas Kane.
I was interested in the second one but because of Lucas, not the romantic development of Pike's and Jennifer's relationship.
Narrators: Henry Strozier & Rich Orlow
Much of the book was rather unclear to me and just a jumble of Middle-eastern bad guys with Pike and his team stuck in the midst. There were 2 main threads, for me that is - one involving the baddies in general and their intentions to scuttle the Peace Plan, and the other between Pike and Jennifer, with Lucas Kane.
I was interested in the second one but because of Lucas, not the romantic development of Pike's and Jennifer's relationship.
June 15, 2016
There are two assassins that are running loose. The author tried a new plot device to make plot artificially complex. As he acknowledges in the notes, he had planned to set the story in Syria, but due to the Arab spring and the civil war in Syria, he had to "move" the plot. It was a pretty good story that seemed to have a lot of artificial difficulties and the Task Force seems to difficult without really understanding why. This was a good story but not great.
April 3, 2015
Pike Logan and his associate Jennifer are on the trail of an assassin. They both have personal issues with the man who keeps escaping the covert group that they are part of. While the book is good, it is not one of the author's best.
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