No Fortunate Son
A Pike Logan Thriller
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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
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Publisher Description
A hostage situation places America’s most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies in this Pike Logan thriller from New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor.
When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from the umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top secret counterterrorist unit called the Taskforce—they expect orders for their next mission. Instead, they learn that their latest actions have gotten them fired, despite having saved thousands of innocent lives.
Pike’s 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 president’s son. Now they’re faced with a terrible choice: cease counter-terrorist 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Taylor's edge-of-your-seat seventh Pike Logan thriller (after Days of Rage), the head of the top-secret counterterrorism unit known as the Taskforce, Col. Kurt Hale, orders Pike and fellow operative Jennifer Cahill to locate his niece, Kylie, a University of Virginia student on exchange to Cambridge University. Terrorists have kidnapped Kylie along with several other family members of key U.S. government officials and are holding them for ransom somewhere in Europe. Essentially fired from Taskforce for disobeying orders in Days of Rage, Logan must find Kylie with no support other than Cahill's and very little to go on. The stakes rise when they discover that one of the kidnap victims is the American vice president's son who was working at a NATO intelligence center in England and that the terrorists may be planning something much more nefarious than a simple hostage exchange. The nonstop action, intricate story line, and jaw-dropping plot twists all but make up for the lack of character development.
Customer Reviews
Great Read!!
Brad keeps getting better with each book! That’s saying a lot because the first several are fantastic!
DF Dobson
Absurd plot. Great action
An Irish stew of a plot. Irish dissidents, Serbian jewel thieves, Somalian terrorists, a Croatian gun runner and a good-guy mercenary from Thailand all in the pot.
It was fine
I’m of two minds about the book. I like the Pike elements dealing with Kurt’s nieces kidnap and the psychological effect it had on him with his daughter. I also liked the initial setup to the novel with the kidnappings.
The part I struggle with is the overall villain’s plot. There are a number of bad characters and in the end I felt like it was too convoluted and the London plot was not needed. 3.5/5