by Brad Taylor
Part of Pike Logan, book 11
First published 2017
Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill face their deadliest mission yet when the Panama Papers leak threatens to expose more than corrupt finances. A defense contractor who bribed a Saudi businessman fifteen years ago now scrambles to stop the next data dump before his crimes surface. The Taskforce shares this goal, but for different reasons. They need to control damage that could compromise their own operations. Logan and Cahill track the contractor's desperate efforts, but they uncover something far worse. The Saudi has been funneling money to terrorists worldwide through the same shell company used for the original bribe. Now he plans a massive attack timed for the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11. The operation, code named Ring of Fire, will unleash destruction across America. Logan and Cahill race against time to prevent catastrophe, but stopping Ring of Fire may be beyond their capabilities. Even if they succeed, they will discover that this spectacular attack was never the endgame. It was designed as a distraction from an even greater threat.
Genres: adventure, contemporary, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: high-stakes, race-against-time
Setting: Panama, America, Saudi Arabia
Period: 21st-century
433 pages · Hardcover · Dutton
Content warnings: violence