Days of Rage

A Pike Logan Thriller, Book 6

By: Brad Taylor

Narrated by: Rich Orlow, Henry Strozier

Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's Summary

Former Delta Force operative Brad Taylor brings his military expertise to bear in the New York Times best-selling Pike Logan series. In Days of Rage, Russia takes aim at the Taskforce by supplying extremists in Nigeria with a weapon of mass destruction. With time running out, Pike races to unravel a Cold War-era mystery and stop a plot aimed at killing millions.

©2014 Brad Taylor (P)2014 Recorded Books

Exciting but not epic

Like all Pike Logan stories the story has a good start and gets you ready. The characters are well developed and you have a good understanding as to where the story is headed. I enjoyed that aspect of the book. However, I found the “Soap Box” style dialogue between Pike and some of the characters boring and counterproductive to the story. They were nothing more than page filling gibberish that the author could have minimized without impacting the movement of the story. The author’s details are spot on and nicely constructed into the story, so as to add inform the reader and better illustrate the story sequence from a technical perspective. I found the character development of the government official involved in the initial Olympic event weak and it stayed that way through the story. This person was the underlying nemesis, yet the author never painted the character as he should have. The same is true for the Israeli team. Their initial involvement was weak and left much for the reader to fill in. The author did a better job developing the Israeli team toward the end of the story, but their actual interface, goals, and objectives weren’t clear until the end of the book. Some of the plots were weak. For example the author spent considerable time on developing the character and purpose for the African agent, then several pages on the final pursuit, and then an anti-climatic end. The book’s ending appeared to be hastily written and anti-climatic. I was expecting a different ending regarding Pike’s involvement with neutralizing the threat and relationship with the female Israeli operator. Non of that happened. I found the entire book ending abruptly, without even a hint of to be continued. I found the narrative excellent. Each character was well presented and identifiable. I would read the book again and would urge Brad Taylor to spend s little more time developing and presenting the story. This one appeared to b

Solid story

Thought this to be one the best yet. With each book getting better in both the character evolution and story line

good -- took awhile to get into it

This was good. It took a long time for it to get started. Very!!slow. Almost stopped but glad I kept going almost two hours!


I like Pike and his 'new' Jewish friends. worth a credit

Brad Taylor is one my favorite espionage novelists

Since his first Pile Logan series novel was published less than seven years ago Brad Taylor has released 10 more novels and 6 novellas in the series. Taylor is not as good as Mark Greaney or Ben Coes (what living authors of espionage thrillers are?), but he is both prolific and terrific. Since Jennifer Cahill joined the Taskforce early on, the series should be called the Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill series.

Set mostly in Nigeria where a Jihadist group has been supplied with a nuclear bomb by the Russians. It is up to Pike Logan and his team and friends from the Mossad he did not ask for or know he needed to resolve the issue. I thoroughly enjoyed Days of Rage which is Book 6 in the Pike Logan series.

After a narration fiasco with his first Pike Logan novel, Brad Taylor hit upon wonderful narrators. Taylor writes his novels in a combination of third person and first person (of Pike Logan). Henry Stozier does the third person narration and Rich Orlow does the Pike Logan first person narration. The combination of two male narrators works wonderfully.

Great story and wonderful performance, but. . .

You lose the ability to suspend all disbelief when the story infers that Israel would do anything to help the USA. Remember the USS Liberty, folks!

Not typical Pike novel

I love Brad Taylor and his Character Pike Logan but this book simply did not have the right plot and action I am used to in the series. Way too much filler and not enough clandestine action.

Fun Thrills

As always with Taylor, a fun, thrill ride with interesting characters. I'm ready for the next one.

typical Pike novel

Any additional comments?

The story is good. But there is too much moral discussion popping up about every third chapter. It gets tedious.

Another Pike Logan Homerun

Taylor does it again with yet another Pike Logan masterpiece. I was a little confused following the narration when the story lines started to converge, but that may have just been me. Great story... Highly recommended.

Good story, narration off a little

I've enjoyed the 2 narrators throughout the series, but this book seemed to have Strozier as Pike as much as Orlow.
It's more like they just took turned from chapter to chapter.
It could be better.
Ive already got the next book, so it's not a deal breaker.