The Dig

Written by Brad Taylor

Narrated by Rich Orlow and Henry Strozier

In retired Delta Force officer Brad Taylor's latest exhilarating short story, Pike Logan's personal mission to get Jennifer Cahill into the Taskforce becomes tied to an archaeological dig in Roswell, New Mexico, where exposing a conspiracy leads to something much more treacherous than alien cover-ups. Includes an exclusive preview of Brad Taylor's hotly anticipated sixth Pike Logan novel, Days of Rage, coming July 15, 2014. After finding the ruins of a Mayan temple-and saving the world from a terrorist attack-in One Rough Man, 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490620572

Brad Taylor

Brad Taylor, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), is a twenty-one-year veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry and Special Forces, includ­ing eight years with Delta Force. Taylor retired in 2010 after serving more than two decades and participating in Oper­ation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has written seventeen New York Times bestsellers and is a security consultant on asymmetric threats for various agencies. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters.

Reviews for The Dig

[Mike Peck · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very good short story. Will recommend to friends and enemies

[mswallack_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Much like Black Flag (book #4.5 in the series), this book suffered from the coincidence factor, which tends to annoy me in books (the protagonist just happens to get involved in something nefarious...). I don't mind when that is the basis of the series (the Jack Reacher series being the prime example), but when, as here, the series is about special forces operatives, the repetition of coincidences that involve them in "missions" gets tiresome. Come to think of it, The Polaris Protocol (book #5 in the series) also had this sort of coincidence problem as a major driving force in getting the story moving. 

[amdrane2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

You know the good thing about websites like this? You get to discover new books and series you normally would never of heard of before or would've just overlooked for some odd reason. I had never really noticed this series before, but the description of this book really intrigued me since I love archeology and I'm just starting to get into the military genre, which this book has both plus a bit of humor from the back and forth between the two MCs. I even went back and downloaded the first book in this series after I finished. Here's hoping this novella wasn't just a fluke.Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.