ANALYSIS/OPINION:
In Brad Taylor’s “An American Traitor,” the latest thriller in his series about the “Taskforce,” a fictional covert counterterrorism unit, Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are vacationing in Australia when they are forced to come to the rescue of former Taskforce member Clifford Delmonty, whose callsign is “Dunkin.”
The pair discovers that Delmonty is being pursued by a group of Communist Chinese operatives who work for the Communist government’s intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, the MSS. The Chinese operatives are chasing Dunkin and his Australian girlfriend as he had spoken to a security officer at the Australian F-35 facility where he worked about a rival contractor computer ace who has been acting suspiciously. The Chinese killers will do anything to protect their asset, the American traitor.