Hunter Killer
A Pike Logan Novel
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4.3 • 78 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Pike Logan tracks highly-trained Russian assassins to Brazil in this blistering, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces Officer Brad Taylor.
“It’s an excellent read, and I greatly enjoyed it.” —Nelson DeMille
Pike Logan and the Taskforce were once the apex predators, an unrivaled hunting machine that decimated those out to harm the United States, but they may have met their match. While Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill prepare to join their team on a counter-terrorist mission in the triple frontier—the lawless tri-border region where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet—they are targeted in Charleston, South Carolina. A vicious explosion kills a friend, and the perpetrators have set it up to look like an accident. While the authorities believe this was not foul play, Pike knows the attack was meant for him.
When he loses contact with the team in South America, Pike is convinced he and the Taskforce are under assault. His men are the closest thing to family that Pike has, which means he will do anything, even ignore direct orders to stand down, to find them. Pike and Jennifer head to Brazil to investigate their disappearance and run headlong into a crew of Russian assassins. Within days they are entangled in a byzantine scheme involving Brazilian politics and a cut-throat battle for control of offshore oil fields.
Forged in combat, the Russians are the equal of anything the Taskforce has encountered before, but they make a mistake in attacking Pike’s team, because Pike has a couple of elite Israeli assassins of his own. And Pike will stop at nothing to protect his family.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
When we dive into one of Brad Taylor’s action-packed Pike Logan thrillers, we know we’re in for a double-espresso adrenaline rush. With Hunter Killer, the phrase that comes to mind is: “This time, it’s personal.” When Russian assassins go after the Taskforce—Pike’s special-ops team—in the wilds of South America, the fearless hero and his trusted partner go rogue, abandoning all rules and protocols to save their squad. As a former Special Forces officer, Taylor has the hard knowledge to make every detail of this pulse-pounding story ring true. The action is so awesomely nonstop, we never wanted to put Hunter Killer down—unless we had business of our own to take care of.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Worries about Pike Logan's mental health among those close to him hover over bestseller Taylor's sturdy 14th novel featuring the head of the elite counterterrorism unit known as Taskforce (after 2019's Daughter of War). Pike and his love interest and partner in Taskforce, Jennifer Cahill, along with their 13-year-old charge, Amena, who was rescued in Syria, are targeted at their home in Charleston, S.C. Pike's mentor, Kurt Hale, gets blown up by a car bomb meant for Pike, setting the enraged Pike off on an unauthorized mission of vengeance. Meanwhile, a group of Russians are going down a list of assassinations in Brazil, where two of Pike's Taskforce team members are swept up in an unrelated terrorist kidnapping on a ferry. The wide-ranging plot has lots of moving parts, which initially slows the action, but the pace picks up once Pike calls in his Israeli married friends, Aaron and Shoshana Bergman, who as usual raise the excitement level as they wreak havoc. A big surprise on the last page will please series fans.
Customer Reviews
It’s run it’s course
So little is different between the various Pike Logan books at this stage. The actions of Pike and the reactions from his team and the Council; the relationship dynamics of himself and Jennifer, not to mention Brett, Aaron, Shoshana and Knuckles.
Taylor is a phenomenal author with a level of knowledge few who are willing to write possess. I just think it’s time to throw the entire Taskforce a massive curveball. Shake everything up, teams, council, leadership in office.
PLEASE!!!!
Hunter Killer
I’ve read a number of Brad Taylor’s Pike Logan Thrillers over the years. This one I found to have way too much commentary on ‘feelings’. Perhaps it’s a sign of maturity that the characters are reflectiing upon how they feel about assassination versus murder, their relationships, and the like, but c’mon, if the target group really wanted intimacy versus intimidation, they’d be watching rom-coms on Netflix! I think I’m done with Pike, but I hope I don’t hurt his feelings!