by Brad Taylor
Part of Pike Logan, book 17
First published 2023
Pike Logan travels to Tajikistan on what should be routine business when Afghanistan collapses. He and Jennifer get pulled into extracting a valuable American asset fleeing the chaos. But their mission takes a deadly turn when ransomware cripples Pike's covert company and the entire Taskforce network. The attack connects somehow to the Taliban, and Pike receives orders to hunt down whoever orchestrated it. He discovers the ransomware was merely a trial run. The real target threatens to shift the balance of world power. Behind the cyber assault lurks a former NSA specialist gone rogue, a turncoat determined to drag the world back to Cold War tensions. The traitor hides behind Serbian and Russian hackers, staying ahead of every move the Taskforce makes. But when he strikes at Pike Logan directly, the specialist makes his first fatal error. Pike must stop an attack that could reshape the global order.
Genres: adventure, contemporary, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Afghanistan, Tajikistan
Period: contemporary
432 pages · Kindle Edition · William Morrow
Content warnings: violence