Shadow Strike: Brad Taylor

Shadow Strike
Pike Logan is back and has created a team of people not experienced in what must be done to take down terrorists. Asking Wolfe his boss to let him create a fake terror attack and choosing each member of his team to play a role, what will the outcome be and how many will make the team at the end.
Then we hear his voice as he learns more about Iran and the war and the main target the minister of Israel.
But a group of rogue Iranian officials stage a brazen plot to go after their enemies namely the Prime Minister of Israel. They create a series of dominos and there is only one man who can pull it off named The Ghost.
Chapter 5 and the rooms where Pike and his team are staying are robbed but they decide to continue with the plan and when the warden came to free him pages will he? Chapter 6 they will do the exercise, but Knuckles says live targets. The terrorist safe house was in the Embassy Suites and many college students, dog walkers and more in this area.
Chasing them and the two motorcycles and watching the Stinger jerk a cord but what’s wrong? Shane floored the accelerator and gaining on pickup but driving on flat tires. Then the team with Pike will they go after the thieves or evaluate the results and Knuckles makes a new decision and wait and find out because Pike might change it all. The action goes in another direction as you see the team in action and more.
Jennifer his wife is on this case and they are doing their Batman and Robin routine. The Robin team as Knuckles wants their direction and he stove as fast as he could and Veep and Brett in car now. Pike gets an update and then it goes in a horrible direction as Pike learns that the Ghost escaped and is in America.
We meet the other side next Sandra and the generals like commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force and his responsibilities plus Brigadier General Esmail commander of Quad Force responsible for all external operations and directed by the Then it’s formally discussed by all Iranians involved and explains why in secret from the Supreme Leader who does not see the future.

Then Quani explains more as Hamas and Hezbollah have been eviscerated, they have been infiltrating arms and Yeung in West Bank. More about why and what it will cause which groups need to be intertwined? The other commanders agreed but will the Mossad hunt to find the Ghost? The missions are described and how uses men are chosen by our side is vital to the Cloud miss the leader or Wolfe disagrees and says Cloud construct was a recipe for disaster and a matter of time when discovered. But the director of the CIA has her own opinion. Mark Ogethorpe said it was exposed by a leak. But another says it points to an infrastructure flaw. But where?

Then Flynn and Shane have the Ghost where he can’t spring free and our president has his own team trying to find him as all sides talk and Kerry explains and Wolfe agrees that Pike and his team need to go after the Ghost since he caught him but how did he escape? Someone on the inside helped but who?
Both sides moving and Pike gives the assignments and wants to take out the person who killed Marley and Ghost is not getting out until he’s released but just where is this going and will their credentials DHS get them in the door and getting revenge for the murder if the sheriff.
It gets more intertwined as Pike and Jennifer wind up in Vegas and their contacts can’t wait to leave plus the truth behind who burned the car and helped Ghost is shucking and would destroy a young man who thought Ghost was teaching him Arabic for school but using his resources to contact Iran and much more you won’t believe. The technology is huge as both sides utilize it but the Ghosts seems to have won!
Then all go with Gus own task force then taken to an airport plus papers that will get him through anywhere plus in a car where to and Jennifer and Pike are in the circus and enter their room dinner and now what’s next? Each side moving but Pike winds up on an Indian reservation and the contact has a video of the vehicle and how it was burned. But does it have more and was this a wasted trip more to reveal?
More questions and learning they can’t track every vehicle on the reservation. Would the vehicle relate Sardto the smoke? His group monitor border Reservation police crime scenes.
Then Pike learns the name he needs and where Ghost might be headed. Ghost is in Mexico and needed to place both index fingers on the reader will he pass through. Then pulled out cell phone and then chat Each side has their own operations and Pike and his team his team traced from their credit cards and plus need new SIM cards and Ghost created his bomb and detonator in place.

A shadow strike refers in a criminal stealthy and unexpected attacks designed compass security and avoid detection and more. As the title draws us to the final scenes the author lets us join both sides in enacting their plans. Flying continued by Pike and where is Ghost will there be an attack in the United States and a bomb?
Take them down no verbal warning said Knuckles and 415 you decide.
A decision and fake message and the prime minister of Israel. An unexpected ending in one respect but what about Ghost?
Read the brilliant ending. Is there a sequel? Told from the side of Pike and his team and the side of Ghost and his team. Wait until you read the surprise ending.
Well written and holds your attention Shadow Strike you beware you never know when! Whose side wins?
Fran Lewis just reviews