american traitor a pike logan novel brad taylor

Series fans will appreciate the continuing evolution of the characters and the customary attention to tactical detail.

A memorable cast, powerful action scenes, and authentic tradecraft compensate for blandly generic settings, with neither Australia nor Taiwan brought much to life. The attack on Dunkin prompts Pike to call in his Taskforce unit and team with a former Taiwan intelligence agent to stop a war between the beleaguered island nation and the despotic Chinese government. Dunkin recently exposed the schemes of his coworker, a Chinese-American artificial-intelligence specialist, who sabotaged the software of the new F-35 fighter jet and stole the code for the early-warning system protecting Taiwan from Chinese invasion. They intend to stay with former Taskforce colleague Dunkin Delmonty, but on arrival they find Dunkin on the run from Chinese assassins. With the help of Jennifer, the Taskforce team, and a brave Taiwanese intelligence agent, he races to prevent a catastrophic conflict from consuming a whole region of the world.īestseller Taylor's taut 15th Pike Logan novel (after 2020's Hunter Killer) takes Pike, the head of the Taskforce counterterrorism unit, and his Taskforce member girlfriend, Jennifer Cahill, to Australia for some vacation. A soldier who has always been trained to fight and win, Pike must now track down and neutralize the missing man who holds the key. Pike learns that the Chinese have a devious plan to bait the island nation into all-out war by destabilizing the government and manipulating an artificial intelligence defense system.Īs the threat reaches a boiling point, Pike alone realizes that what they’re seeing isn’t actually real. In its quest for dominance, China is determined to reclaim Taiwan-a pivotal ally the United States has sworn to protect. Pike and Jennifer soon discover that Dunkin’s attackers are a dangerous link to a much larger scheme that could launch a full-on conflict between China and Taiwan. While working as a contractor at an Australian F-35 facility, the former Taskforce member-callsign Dunkin-saw something he shouldn’t have, and now he’s on the run from Chinese agents. Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are enjoying a sunny vacation down under when they get disturbing news: their friend and colleague Clifford Delmonty is in serious trouble. Pike Logan is on the desperate hunt for a man who is about to betray his country-and ignite a horrific new world war-in this pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor

“Few authors write about espionage, terrorism, and clandestine hit squads as well as Taylor does.”-Houston Press

American traitor a pike logan novel brad taylor