[7.5] The Recruit: A Taskforce Story(2015)
When Taskforce operator Knuckles brings his oldfriend Decoy, a former teammate from the Navy SEALs, to Lima, Peru, he wondersif he’s made a mistake. Knuckles’ only objective is to assess Decoy’s covertsurveillance skills on an orientation deployment, the final step before anyrecruit is accepted into the extralegal counterterrorist organization known asthe Taskforce. Just when Decoy’s wild side threatens to expose their cover astechnicians working for the embassy—and derail his chances of becoming a fullmember of the Taskforce—the two uncover an unexpected piece of intelligenceinvolving the terrorist group, the Shining Path, that causes their mission togo from evaluation to operational. With no backup and a flimsy cover story,Knuckles and Decoy find themselves in murky territory, relying on the help ofan untried asset to prevent a devastating attack on countless innocents.
[8] The Insider Threat (2015)
The United States has anticipated and avertedcountless attacks from terrorist groups—thanks in large part to the extralegalcounterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce. But in The Insider Threat, a muchmore insidious evil is about to shatter the false sense of safety surroundingcivilized nations. While world powers combat ISIS on the battlefield, adifferent threat is set in motion by the group—one that can’t be defeated by anairstrike. Off the radar of every Western intelligence organization, able topenetrate America or any European state, they intend to commit an act ofunimaginable barbarity. Only Pike Logan and the Taskforce stand in the way ofan attack no one anticipates, a grand deception that will wreak unthinkablechaos and reverberate throughout the Western world.
[9] The Forgotten Soldier (2015)

For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforcehas worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around theglobe. Created to deal with a terrorist threat that shuns the civilized rule oflaw, it abandoned the same, operating outside of the US Constitution. Thoughwildly successful, it was rooted in a fear that the cure could be worse thanthe disease.
And now that fear has come home.
A Special Forces soldier is killed on anoperation in Afghanistan, and complicit in the attack is a government officialof an allied nation. While the US administration wants to forget the casualty,one Taskforce member will not. When he sets out to avenge his brother's death,his actions threaten to not only expose the Taskforce's activities, but alsodestroy a web of alliances against a greater evil. Pike Logan understands thedesire, but also the danger. Brought in to eliminate the risk, he's now forcedto choose between his friend and the administration he's sworn to protect,while unbeknownst to either of them, the soldier's death is only thebeginning....
[10] Ghosts of War (2016)

World War is on the horizonin New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor’s tenthheart-pounding Pike Logan thriller.
The Taskforce has stopped countless terroristthreats across the globe, operating outside of US law to prevent the death ofinnocents. But now, along the fault lines of the old Iron Curtain, the dangeris far greater than a single attack. With Russia expanding its influence fromSyria to the Baltic States, the Taskforce is placed on stand-down because ofthe actions of one rogue operator.
Meanwhile, Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill travelto Poland, hired to verify artifacts hidden for decades in a fabled Nazi goldtrain, only to find themselves caught amid growing tensions between East andWest. A Russian incursion into Belarus under the facade of self-defense istrumped by a horrific attack against the United States, driving NATO tomobilize even as it tries to determine who is behind the strike.
On the brink of war, Pike and Jennifer discoverthat there is a separate agenda in play, one determined to force a showdownbetween NATO and Russia. With time running out, and America demandingvengeance, Pike and Jennifer race to unravel the mystery before a point of noreturn is reached. Unbeknownst to them, there is another attack on theway.
One that will guarantee World War III.
[10.5] The Target (2016)

1998. A year after a disastrous mission inAmman, Jordan, Israeli operative Aaron Bergman and his Samson team feel morelike outcasts than ever. Fearful that his team is about to be disbanded, Aaronis thrown another curve: a cast-off operative named Shoshana, who nobody in theMossad trusts, and who all feel is a traitor. When the new commander of theMossad summons them immediately after being sworn in, Aaron’s fears areconfirmed. The team is cut free from the Mossad but not from serving their newleader.
Unsanctioned by the Israeli government, theirmission is to assassinate a Nazi murderer from Auschwitz: a man who stood guardon the wall of death and has since escaped to Argentina, and who is running alucrative business with his sons. When Aaron and Shoshana accept the mission,it sets them on a collision course with an active operation involving a rebornNazi web intertwined with Iran, forcing the pair to trust each other as theevil they were tasked with destroying sets its sights on one last strikeagainst Israel no one sees coming.
[11] Ring of Fire (2017)

Fifteen years ago, in order to win a contract in the Kingdom, adesperate defense contractor used a shell company to provide a bribe to awealthy Saudi businessman. Now a powerful player in the defense industry, hepanics when the Panama Papers burst onto the public scene. Providing insightinto the illicit deeds of offshore financing, they could prove his undoing.
To prevent the exposure of his illegalactivities, he sets in motion a plan to interdict the next leak, but he is notthe only one worried about spilled secrets. The data theft has left theTaskforce potentially vulnerable, leaving a trail that could compromise theunit. Back in the good graces of the new president, Pike Logan and JenniferCahill are ordered to interdict the next leak as well, in order to control thedamage.
Unbeknownst to either group, the Saudi has beenusing the shell company to fund terrorists all over the world, and he has aspectacular attack planned, coinciding with the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11.The information Pike and Jennifer uncover will put them on the trail of theimminent threat, but it’s one that they might be unable to stop.
Called Ring of Fire, it will cause unimaginabledestruction across the United States, and the ensuing chaos and terror willdistract the Taskforce from a truth no one sees: Ring of Fire was only thebeginning, and the danger is far from over.
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