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read as always. Nice change in terrorists, thanks, Operatives Pike Logan and his partner, Jennifer Cahill receive a letter terminating their services with Blaisdell Consulting, an umbrella company of their real employer, a counterterrorist unit called the Taskforce.
Some governmental officials felt that Pike and Jennifer had gone too far in their last case,
They arrive in Washington and their commander, Col, Kurt Hale ask them for help because his niece is missing, He thinks it's part of some terror operation where a number of children of government officials have been kidnapped,
Hale says he'll pay them privately and that he's worried about Kylie, his niece who is an exchange student in England,
Pike and Jennifer get to work and it's as if Jason Bourne and James Bond were mixed together, There is a complicated plot involving a splinter group of IRA terrorists, a Croatian arms dealer, and Somalia terrorists have combined to plan the capture of the children of government officials for a unique ransome, combined with a jewel robbery and the Somalia's planting a bomb in London.
There's lots of action interspersed with meetings in Washington of the officials who were skeptical of Pike and Jennifer from their past operation, The children of many of these officials are involved and we observe their thoughts,
The novel was very complicated and had to be read slowly to appreciate it, The author is a master of suspense but the action was long in coming and I was growing weary of what would come next,
I enjoyed the story and look forward to another book by Brad Taylor but wish this one ended sooner,
Instead, they learn that their latest actions have gotten them fired, despite having saved thousands of innocent lives,
Yes Pike Logan is da man, He traipse the globe with his team of other badasses named the Taskforce, They are a super secret group that only the top guys in Washington know about, Their missions are usually to save those who have no idea what type of danger their really in,
One huge glaring difference in No Fortunate Son is that Pike doesn't have his team, After the actions he took in his last adventure Days of Rage
What's the current situation I'm glad you asked, A slew of Irish terrorists kidnap children of men in power such as the Vice President's son, and the Secretary of Defense, . . so on and so forth, And this is where things get interesting and falter a little bit,
Taylor ropes in his readers with action that doesn't cease but when I look back, I see a lot of holes that I just didn't come together in the end.
One major idea is that potentially the US doesn't care if a bunch of nobodies die so it makes more sense to take someone a lot closer to home.
That was fine and dandy, But eventually, there's talk that something the kidnapped may know that can be used a potential leverage, That never really comes into fruition, I don't know but I never really felt these plot twists were used to their full potential or seen through,
Besides my little plot gripes I will continue to read more Brad Taylor novels and follow Pike Logan to the ends of the Earth because I know he will save me from any bad guy there.
He's still haunted by the deaths of his wife and daughter enough to make him an interesting character that is worth liking in all his badassery.
Overall, fans of this series won't be disappointed and potential fans of this series, be warned that one crazy thrillride will ensue upon opening No Fortunate Son.
Copy Provided by Penguin Group Dutton via Netgalley Excellent! This book and author were recommended to me by a Goodreads friend, It did not disappoint.
It is a Pike Logan main character book, It is international, high adventure, and involves the highest level of our government as well as the most skilled and super secret agency in the world.
The story evolves on multiple fronts and I could not put it down,
The clock is racing from the start to save some very important people, But on a different storyline, Pike is trying to save someone he loves at the same time and lots of other innocent people are at risk of death too.
Plus they can't let it leak to the media, Just a good fast moving book with lots of twists and turns,
I will read the other Pike Logan books and the rest of Brad Taylor's books too, You should try one
Very good! Easily the best Pike Logan book to date, Taylor decided to break the "stop a terrorist attack formula" to really shake things up and introduce a kidnapping plot and a search for hostages, Everything about the story worked really well, The new locations and new bad guys with different motives really brought something fresh to the series, Also the hostage povs were really good, I hope this is a good omen for the rest of the series now that I'm at the halfway point, I won this ARC through Goodreads giveaway
This is the first Pike Logan book I've read and will definitely continue the series, Pike and his partner, Jennifer, are on the hunt for some high level hostages, one of which is the son of the Vice President, Determining who is actually holding them and why is the gist of the story, There is plenty of action and the Cirque de soleil skills of Jennifer adds to this very good book, This review is for the recorded version of the book:
Recorded Books eleven compact discs, thirteen hours,
In this timely and terrifying narrative, Kurt Hales niece Kylie has disappeared and he presses Pike Logan into service to find her, But it soon becomes clear that Kylies disappearance is not an isolated incident family members of several key Washington officials have been kidnapped, And with the vice presidents son being one of the hostages, the Task Force must find a way to get them back,
Here the bad guys loathsomely evil, the good guys arent above breaking a few rules to rescue the hostages, and readers are treated to a story filled with twists and turns and plenty of nonstop action.
As might be expected with this tale of terrorists and intrigue, theres plenty of violence and coarse language, but it is appropriate to the rough characters and gritty situations.
Henry Strozier and Rich Orlow serve as the readers for this unabridged edition and their reading carries just the right tone for the various characters.
The book is recorded in three minute tracks, making bookmarking easy however, listeners are likely to be far too involved in this narrative to make use of them.
Recommended.
This was an amazing journey, Loved the book and the action and it also shows the power of women in an elite force, The whole combination works for me, A kidnapping is a treasure trove for the thriller writer, The suspense is already implicit in the concept, Someone needs to be found before the criminals put them to death, When the victims are children, the suspense is ratcheted up tenfold, Naturally, a thriller writer is going to return to this type of plot again and again, merely changing the story angle and victim, Add in that the kidnappers are terrorists, the parent in this case is not a grieving Mom or Dad, but the United States itself, who will do anything to find the kidnappers and has the soldiers and spies to do so, and now we are cooking up some good hot military suspense.
In "No Fortunate Son", Brad Taylor's latest Pike Logan novel, Pike and his girlfriend / partner Jennifer have been booted from their secret quasi government agency because of Pike's running off the reservation during his last adventure in "Days of Rage".
While fuming at the injustice of it all, his boss Kurt Hale throws him a bone, Hale's niece Kylie, who Pike knows for a long time, is missing and Hale's sister is afraid that something has "happened", Hale asks Pike and Jennifer to investigate her disappearance in England,
While Pike and Jennifer are on their own interviewing Kylie's roommate, America and its intelligence and anti terrorist apparatus are gearing up to finding terrorists who have seized the sons and daughters of prominent American political leaders.
After a gruesome killing of one of the hostages, the terrorists have America's undivided attention,
The action switches between America's hunt for the terrorists, Pike and Jennifer's investigation, the terrorists and their plotting and the victims, We soon know who has Kylie and who has the other kidnapping victims, We feel her pain. She is no soldier or child of privilege, Just a girl on what turns out to be a really bad date, But her boyfriend has convinced the kidnappers that she is his fiancée, so they let her live, Big Mistake for them because now Pike Logan is after them,
Meanwhile Pike, a trouble magnet, and Jennifer, find that Kylie was meeting a soldier, Their low key investigation soon leads to serious results, It seems that Kylie may have been taken with her boyfriend, who it turns out has been hiding his identity from Kylie, Like the film of the same name, Pike and Jennifer turn up the heat,
Pike and Jennifer may be on the sidelines of America but they still have access to its technology, A little call to Hale, and they have satellite imagery and Pike's instincts are always top notch,
Then Taylor switches to other hostages, who are also prisoners, Twins of the same terrorists, They are held separately, in a room rigged with explosives,
Can Pike and Jennifer find the two separate groups of hostages, It's a roller coaster ride, The terrorists are not one single group and they have plans to hurt the US and its allies too, So there is a race to find the kidnapping victims plus the added thrills from stopping the other terrorists plots, Meanwhile, you will be racing to finish this great piece of escapist fiction,
Pedal to the metal, it's a fast great read,
.
Some governmental officials felt that Pike and Jennifer had gone too far in their last case,
They arrive in Washington and their commander, Col, Kurt Hale ask them for help because his niece is missing, He thinks it's part of some terror operation where a number of children of government officials have been kidnapped,
Hale says he'll pay them privately and that he's worried about Kylie, his niece who is an exchange student in England,
Pike and Jennifer get to work and it's as if Jason Bourne and James Bond were mixed together, There is a complicated plot involving a splinter group of IRA terrorists, a Croatian arms dealer, and Somalia terrorists have combined to plan the capture of the children of government officials for a unique ransome, combined with a jewel robbery and the Somalia's planting a bomb in London.
There's lots of action interspersed with meetings in Washington of the officials who were skeptical of Pike and Jennifer from their past operation, The children of many of these officials are involved and we observe their thoughts,
The novel was very complicated and had to be read slowly to appreciate it, The author is a master of suspense but the action was long in coming and I was growing weary of what would come next,
I enjoyed the story and look forward to another book by Brad Taylor but wish this one ended sooner,
In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator and New York Times bestselling author, a hostage situation places Americas most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies.When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from Blaisdell Consultingthe umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top secret counterterrorist unit called the Taskforcethey expect orders for their next missionimpossible tasking.
Instead, they learn that their latest actions have gotten them fired, despite having saved thousands of innocent lives,
Pikes shock and fury is redirected when their commander, Colonel Kurt Hale,
asks him and Jennifer for help with a personal matter: His niece Kylie, an exchange student in England, has gone missing.
Neither Pike nor Jennifer understands how critical her disappearance will become,
Meanwhile, all Taskforce teams have been redirected to a developing situation, A terrorist organization has targeted military relatives of key members of the US government, including the vice presidents son, Their seizure of hostages was farreaching and meticulously coordinated, and the full extent of the threatand potential demandshas thrown the government into turmoil, They face a terrible choice: Cease counterterrorist operations, or watch hostages die one by one, How much is a single life worth Unless the Taskforce can decipher the web of lies devised by their enemies, the United States is about to find out.
Yes Pike Logan is da man, He traipse the globe with his team of other badasses named the Taskforce, They are a super secret group that only the top guys in Washington know about, Their missions are usually to save those who have no idea what type of danger their really in,
One huge glaring difference in No Fortunate Son is that Pike doesn't have his team, After the actions he took in his last adventure Days of Rage
What's the current situation I'm glad you asked, A slew of Irish terrorists kidnap children of men in power such as the Vice President's son, and the Secretary of Defense, . . so on and so forth, And this is where things get interesting and falter a little bit,
Taylor ropes in his readers with action that doesn't cease but when I look back, I see a lot of holes that I just didn't come together in the end.
One major idea is that potentially the US doesn't care if a bunch of nobodies die so it makes more sense to take someone a lot closer to home.
That was fine and dandy, But eventually, there's talk that something the kidnapped may know that can be used a potential leverage, That never really comes into fruition, I don't know but I never really felt these plot twists were used to their full potential or seen through,
Besides my little plot gripes I will continue to read more Brad Taylor novels and follow Pike Logan to the ends of the Earth because I know he will save me from any bad guy there.
He's still haunted by the deaths of his wife and daughter enough to make him an interesting character that is worth liking in all his badassery.
Overall, fans of this series won't be disappointed and potential fans of this series, be warned that one crazy thrillride will ensue upon opening No Fortunate Son.
Copy Provided by Penguin Group Dutton via Netgalley Excellent! This book and author were recommended to me by a Goodreads friend, It did not disappoint.
It is a Pike Logan main character book, It is international, high adventure, and involves the highest level of our government as well as the most skilled and super secret agency in the world.
The story evolves on multiple fronts and I could not put it down,
The clock is racing from the start to save some very important people, But on a different storyline, Pike is trying to save someone he loves at the same time and lots of other innocent people are at risk of death too.
Plus they can't let it leak to the media, Just a good fast moving book with lots of twists and turns,
I will read the other Pike Logan books and the rest of Brad Taylor's books too, You should try one
Very good! Easily the best Pike Logan book to date, Taylor decided to break the "stop a terrorist attack formula" to really shake things up and introduce a kidnapping plot and a search for hostages, Everything about the story worked really well, The new locations and new bad guys with different motives really brought something fresh to the series, Also the hostage povs were really good, I hope this is a good omen for the rest of the series now that I'm at the halfway point, I won this ARC through Goodreads giveaway
This is the first Pike Logan book I've read and will definitely continue the series, Pike and his partner, Jennifer, are on the hunt for some high level hostages, one of which is the son of the Vice President, Determining who is actually holding them and why is the gist of the story, There is plenty of action and the Cirque de soleil skills of Jennifer adds to this very good book, This review is for the recorded version of the book:
Recorded Books eleven compact discs, thirteen hours,
In this timely and terrifying narrative, Kurt Hales niece Kylie has disappeared and he presses Pike Logan into service to find her, But it soon becomes clear that Kylies disappearance is not an isolated incident family members of several key Washington officials have been kidnapped, And with the vice presidents son being one of the hostages, the Task Force must find a way to get them back,
Here the bad guys loathsomely evil, the good guys arent above breaking a few rules to rescue the hostages, and readers are treated to a story filled with twists and turns and plenty of nonstop action.
As might be expected with this tale of terrorists and intrigue, theres plenty of violence and coarse language, but it is appropriate to the rough characters and gritty situations.
Henry Strozier and Rich Orlow serve as the readers for this unabridged edition and their reading carries just the right tone for the various characters.
The book is recorded in three minute tracks, making bookmarking easy however, listeners are likely to be far too involved in this narrative to make use of them.
Recommended.
This was an amazing journey, Loved the book and the action and it also shows the power of women in an elite force, The whole combination works for me, A kidnapping is a treasure trove for the thriller writer, The suspense is already implicit in the concept, Someone needs to be found before the criminals put them to death, When the victims are children, the suspense is ratcheted up tenfold, Naturally, a thriller writer is going to return to this type of plot again and again, merely changing the story angle and victim, Add in that the kidnappers are terrorists, the parent in this case is not a grieving Mom or Dad, but the United States itself, who will do anything to find the kidnappers and has the soldiers and spies to do so, and now we are cooking up some good hot military suspense.
In "No Fortunate Son", Brad Taylor's latest Pike Logan novel, Pike and his girlfriend / partner Jennifer have been booted from their secret quasi government agency because of Pike's running off the reservation during his last adventure in "Days of Rage".
While fuming at the injustice of it all, his boss Kurt Hale throws him a bone, Hale's niece Kylie, who Pike knows for a long time, is missing and Hale's sister is afraid that something has "happened", Hale asks Pike and Jennifer to investigate her disappearance in England,
While Pike and Jennifer are on their own interviewing Kylie's roommate, America and its intelligence and anti terrorist apparatus are gearing up to finding terrorists who have seized the sons and daughters of prominent American political leaders.
After a gruesome killing of one of the hostages, the terrorists have America's undivided attention,
The action switches between America's hunt for the terrorists, Pike and Jennifer's investigation, the terrorists and their plotting and the victims, We soon know who has Kylie and who has the other kidnapping victims, We feel her pain. She is no soldier or child of privilege, Just a girl on what turns out to be a really bad date, But her boyfriend has convinced the kidnappers that she is his fiancée, so they let her live, Big Mistake for them because now Pike Logan is after them,
Meanwhile Pike, a trouble magnet, and Jennifer, find that Kylie was meeting a soldier, Their low key investigation soon leads to serious results, It seems that Kylie may have been taken with her boyfriend, who it turns out has been hiding his identity from Kylie, Like the film of the same name, Pike and Jennifer turn up the heat,
Pike and Jennifer may be on the sidelines of America but they still have access to its technology, A little call to Hale, and they have satellite imagery and Pike's instincts are always top notch,
Then Taylor switches to other hostages, who are also prisoners, Twins of the same terrorists, They are held separately, in a room rigged with explosives,
Can Pike and Jennifer find the two separate groups of hostages, It's a roller coaster ride, The terrorists are not one single group and they have plans to hurt the US and its allies too, So there is a race to find the kidnapping victims plus the added thrills from stopping the other terrorists plots, Meanwhile, you will be racing to finish this great piece of escapist fiction,
Pedal to the metal, it's a fast great read,
.
Brad Taylor