Order of Brad Taylor Books

What happens when a real-life commando swaps his rifle for a pen? You get Brad Taylor—a man whose life reads like a thriller novel long before he ever wrote one.

Born on June 14, 1965, in Okinawa, Japan, Brad Taylor’s entry into the world wasn’t exactly what you’d call “ordinary.” The son of a military man, Taylor’s early years were steeped in the rhythms of discipline, relocation, and duty. It was almost as if destiny had whispered in his ears, “Your life is going to be one hell of a mission.”

After spending much of his youth moving from base to base, Brad eventually found himself at University of Texas, where he earned a Master’s Degree in Security Studies. But his real schooling happened in the shadowy corridors of special operations. Brad served more than 21 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. His illustrious career included eight years in 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Delta Force)—the very definition of elite. He didn’t just train for high-risk missions. He lived them. Taylor was deployed all over the world, from the Middle East to the most classified corners of black ops. And somewhere in those covert zones, the seeds of fiction began to grow.

But retirement didn’t mean rest. Brad Taylor traded his night-vision goggles for a keyboard and embarked on a new kind of war—this time in the world of espionage fiction. In 2011, he exploded onto the literary scene with “One Rough Man,” the first in the now-bestselling Pike Logan series, and hasn’t looked back since.

His protagonist, Pike Logan, is not your typical action hero—he’s raw, real, damaged, and deadly. In other words, he’s a reflection of the world Brad knows intimately. Every mission in the Pike Logan universe feels unsettlingly plausible—because Taylor’s not making it up out of thin air. He’s drawing from a life spent chasing shadows and neutralizing threats most of us will never hear about. It’s espionage with an edge because it’s laced with first-hand experience.

The irony? The man who once operated in silence now makes a living being as loud as possible—through the crack of literary gunfire, the chaos of chase scenes, and the eerie silence that follows a successful mission. His books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list more times than a covert op has classified pages, and his readers—millions of them—come back for that authentic adrenaline hit only he can deliver.

Today, Brad lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. He teaches, speaks at events, and still occasionally advises on counter-terrorism. But his primary battlefield is fiction, where he’s on a relentless mission to keep readers on the edge of their seats.

So here’s the cliffhanger—what happens when a man trained to kill with surgical precision decides to entertain instead? The answer is a masterclass in storytelling, where every chapter is a mission, and every ending leaves you breathless. Brad Taylor isn’t just writing thrillers—he’s redefining what it means to write with military-grade intensity.

Want to know what real covert warfare feels like? Read a Brad Taylor novel. But be warned—once Pike Logan pulls you in, there’s no extraction.