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The Widow's Strike: A Pike Logan Thriller

by Brad Taylor
Dutton. Jul. 2013. 384p. ISBN 9780525953111. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101624272. F
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The premise of Taylor's latest thriller (All Necessary Force; Enemy of Mine; One Rough Man) is simple: Iranian bad guys want to release the virus that caused the influenza pandemic of 1918. The carrier will be a Chechen widow who hates the United States. If Logan and his cohorts from the Taskforce (an off-the-books group created to solve problems without having to get authorization from Congress or the courts) don't stop her, the death toll could run into the millions.
VERDICT Taylor writes a tight, exciting script. Fans of the previous Pike Logan books will be delighted, while newcomers will be pleased to make Pike Logan's violent acquaintance. Although this title draws heavily on its predecessors, reading them is not essential to newbies. And while the idea of a unit like the Taskforce is not original (see Tom Clancy's Campus among others), there is plenty of solid military and scientific tech and a ton of action here. [See Prepub Alert, 1/14/13.]
Reviewed by Robert Conroy, Warren, MI , Jul 01, 2013
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