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The devil's ransom
- Title
- The devil's ransom / Brad Taylor.
- Author
- Taylor, Brad, 1965-
- Publication
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- ©2023
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-1384 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 417 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan, Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there's a man on the run. One that has done more for the United States in Afghanistan than anyone else. Pulled in to extract him, Pike collides headlong into a broader mystery: His covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, has been hit with a ransomware attack, and there's some connection between the Taliban and the hack. Given the order to track down the perpetrators, he has no idea that the problem set is much, much larger and more dangerous than a simple attack on his organization. That hack was just a test-run, and the real one is coming soon, engendered by a former NSA specialist in the U.S. government. A man who wants to return to the bipolar world of the Cold War, the turncoat has cloaked his attack behind hackers from Serbia and Russia, and if successful, his target will alter the balance of power on the global stage. So far, the specialist has remained one step ahead of the Taskforce, but he has just made one massive mistake: hitting Pike Logan"--
- Series Statement
- A Pike Logan novel ; 17
- Taylor, Brad, 1965- Pike Logan thriller ; 17.
- Subject
- Logan, Pike > Fiction
- Logan, Pike
- Taliban > Fiction
- Taliban
- Internet and terrorism > Fiction
- Intelligence officers > Fiction
- Cyberterrorism > Fiction
- Special forces (Military science) > Fiction
- Special operations (Military science) > Fiction
- Terrorism > Prevention > Fiction
- Intelligence officers
- Internet and terrorism
- Terrorism > Prevention
- Cyberterrorism
- Special forces (Military science)
- Special operations (Military science)
- Terrorism
- Genre/Form
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Fiction.
- Spy fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Call Number
- JFE 23-1384
- ISBN
- 9780063221987
- 0063221985
- OCLC
- 1313075923
- Author
- Taylor, Brad, 1965- author.
- Title
- The devil's ransom / Brad Taylor.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- A Pike Logan novel ; 17Taylor, Brad, 1965- Pike Logan thriller ; 17.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-1384