Review: The Dig by Brad Taylor

A Mysterious Review of The Dig by Brad Taylor. A Pike Logan, Taskforce Short Story.

Review summary: These backstory and interstitial novellas are a clever way of filling in story arc details, keeping readers invested in series characters and looking forward to the next full-length novel. This fourth one starts a little slow, but by the midpoint the intensity picks up and the last half is really quite exciting. (Click here for text of full review.)

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The Dig
Brad Taylor
A Pike Logan, Taskforce Short Story
Dutton (June 2014)

Publisher synopsis: After finding the ruins of a Mayan temple — and saving the world from a terrorist attack — Pike Logan has been given the chance to rejoin the Taskforce, a top secret counterterrorist organization that operates outside the bounds of US law. But before he becomes an operator again, he's determined to get Jennifer Cahill into the Taskforce as well, though no one else seems willing to give a female civilian a shot.

Jennifer herself would rather focus on setting up their new company, Grolier Recovery Services, an archaeological research agency that Pike hopes will also serve as a sophisticated cover for future Taskforce missions. When Grolier receives its first job offer to check out a site in Roswell, New Mexico, Jennifer convinces Pike to go.

But once they arrive it's clear that there's a lot more going on than a simple search for Indian artifacts, and uncovering the secrets carefully guarded out in the desert could not only cost them their future with the Taskforce, but their very lives.