K-18 Tech teacher 30 years, adjunct professor, coach/mentor. Author of 100+ tech ed resources. Love getting outside my bubble and hearing from everyone #edtech.
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In this early Christmas tale, A Preacher Christmas (Kensington Books 2026), Preacher and two of his Mountain Man friends decide to visit Norwegians they haven't seen in a long time who live just across the border between American and Canadian territories. As usual, Preacher's friends are interesting. Audie is four feet tall, a brilliant former University scholar who chose nature over academe. Nighthawk is an overly large and extremely powerful Indian who speaks 90% of the time in grunts. Dog and Horse round out the party--no need to flesh them out. The group quickly find trouble not just on their way there, but once they arrive. The Norwegians have been attacked by Danes who burned large pieces of the camp and kidnapped a group of women and children. Preacher can't let any attack on friends go unanswered and he, with his small group and as many males as the battered Norwegian encampment can spare, go to the rescue. To complicate things, the invaders also steal a trunk with an ancient relic also being sought by a Brit who claims to the rightful owner. He pretends to be convivial, but his armed mercenaries know he will do whatever is necessary to retrieve the pieces. Needless to say, Preacher has his hands full.
This is as good as any Preacher book in the series, worthy of all five stars.
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Jacqui Murray’s review of Shadow Strike | Goodreads
Brad Taylor's Shadow Strike (William Morrow 2026), 20th in the Pike Logan series, is another well written, well plotted Pike-and-special-forces-squad story. This time, Pike, Jennifer, and the squad begin what appears as a fairly benign task--to recapture a criminal they already captured who escaped (called the Ghost). It quickly escalates to a major world threat and a much bigger issue when Pike realizes his sometimes Mossad partners, Shahana and Allan, are hunting the same criminal. As usual, the story is clever with lots of real-life worries and decisions sometimes absent in other geopolitical thriller.
What didn’t I like that lost it a star? One, Pike at times didn’t seem focused on the goal, too worried about the approval of the group's bosses. I get that’s the storyline, the angst of suits vs doers, but it annoyed me more than usual. In this book more than others, it sapped the energy giving chases more of stutter start-and-stop pace as the group debated the moral intricacies of a plan and the rights of the criminals. Second--a small thing--the book opened using Pike and Jennifer's adopted fifteen-year-old daughter Amina in a squad bad-guy chase. I get that in her former Middle East homeland , she was a pickpocket, but no credibility was laid for her credentials to do this as part of a specially-trained and authorized team.
Oh well. Tell me if I'm being too picky.
Overall a 4/5. It lives up to the series goals and kept me reading.
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