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Ring of fire / Brad Taylor.
Fifteen years ago, a desperate defense contractor used a shell company to provide a bribe to a wealthy saudi businessman in order to win a contract in the kingdom. Now a powerful player in the defense industry, he panics when the Panama Papers burst onto the public scene. Revealing insight into the illicit deeds of offshore financing, they could prove his undoing. To prevent the exposure of his illegal activities, he sets in motion a plan to stop the next leak, but he is not the only one worried about spilled secrets. The data theft has left the Taskforce potentially vulnerable, so Operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are sent to interdict the next lead as well, in order to control the damage. Unbeknownst to either group, the Saudi has been using the shell company to fund terrorists all over the world, and he has a spectacular attack planned, coinciding with the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11. The information Pike and Jennifer uncover will put them on the trail of the imminent threat, but it's one that they might be unable to stop. Called Ring of Fire, it will cause unimaginable destruction across the United States, and the ensuing chaos and terror will distract the Taskforce from a truth no one sees: Ring of Fire was only the beginning, and the danger is far from over.
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- ISBN: 9781101984765 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 433 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Dutton, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
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| Subject: | Special forces (Military science) > United States > Fiction. Special operations (Military science) > Fiction. Terrorism > Prevention > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Adventure fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Altona Library | F Tay v.11 (Text) | 35864002179107 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2016 December #2
*Starred Review* With Taylor's latest Taskforce novel featuring Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill, he has further established himself as an elite military-thriller author. At this point, nobody is better at tackling hardcore action mixed with timely themes. The Taskforce works in secret, assisting with both assessing and eliminating foreign and domestic terrorist threats. This time the Taskforce itself is under threat, when Logan and his team learn that the release of documents called the Panama Papers may expose the organization to the public. It's up to Logan to find the mole and stop the material from getting published. Meanwhile, a threat to national security places the lives of the entire nation at risk from terrorists who have a bold plan to attack on the anniversary of 9/11. Taylor's background in Special Forces gives his story lines authenticity, and his uncanny sense of tomorrow's headlines makes him seem almost psychic. Fine work from a thriller writer at the very top of his game. Copyright 2016 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2017 January #1
An elite task force works frantically to prevent the next wave of terrorist attacks.After more than two decades in the military, including a period in the Special Forces, Taylor (Ghosts of War, 2016, etc.) returns with the latest thriller featuring Nephilim "Pike" Logan. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Dexter Trippler, the owner of a minor airplane maintenance firm, secures his first government contract by using a shell company to bribe the son of an influential Saudi financier. By the end of the day, Trippler is shocked to learn that his Saudi contact is connected to the terrorist attack. This information does not prevent Trippler from building his business and acquiring more government contracts until 15 years later when an illegal data dump (larger than WikiLeaks) threatens to connect Trippler with the Saudi financing of Islamic extremism. To prevent this exposure, Trippler enlists the help of his head of security, Johan van Rensburg, a former Special Forces operator wit h South Africa's Reconnaissance Commandos. A competent professional with a strict moral code, van Rensburg travels to North Africa and uncovers an international terrorist plot. Pike and his teammates from the Taskforce, an elite off-the-books paramilitary unit, also find their way to North Africa and into the midst of a Saudi-backed Moroccan terrorist cell. Those looking only for action-filled suspense won't be disappointed, but Taylor does expand his story with brief and intriguing discourses on the role of women in combat and whether violence is an intrinsic element of the Islamic faith. A page-turner that's enriched by the author's obvious familiarity with the intricacies of combating 21st-century terrorism. Copyright Kirkus 2016 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 August #1
A New York Times best-selling author who served for more than 20 years in the U.S. Army, Taylor has been building his Pike Logan series since 2011. Here, hints of a terrorist plot to launch simultaneous attacks across America set Pike and his team into motion.
[Page 60]. (c) Copyright 2016 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2016 November #4
Bestseller Taylor's 11th Pike Logan thriller (after 2016's The Ghosts of War) serves as a chilling primer for an all-too-feasible terrorist strike. The leak of the confidential offshore-banking Panama Papers reveals a secret shell company financing terrorism and threatens to expose the extralegal counterterrorism organization known as the Taskforce, for which Pike works. Pike's team must follow the money trail of a wealthy Saudi businessman's planned succession of attacks, code-named Ring of Fire, to cripple America's shipping industry. Taylor relies heavily on readers' familiarity with the main characters, as their backstory is kept to a minimum, but that leaves space for intriguing secondary characters such as a Somali-American sleeper-cell drone pilot and the deadly, but principled, South African mercenary who stalks the terrorists. Pike and his crew have a few too many "just missed 'em" moments and rely on convenient technology for assistance, but the ever-escalating chaos will leave fans breathless for the next installment. Five-city author tour. Agent: John Talbot, Talbot Fortune. (Jan.) Copyright 2016 Publisher Weekly.
