Welcome to the Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast.

The show covering all things health, wellness, culture, and more.

The show for all of us who aren't old were better.

Each week, we'll interview superstars, experts, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things,

all related to this wonderful experience of getting better,

not just older.

Now, here's your host, the award-winning Paul Vogelzang.

Thank you very much.

Today's guest is Brad Taylor, a hero with a career in special forces, years of

firsthand experience in high stakes environments, and now a long run as one of the most trusted

names in thriller writing. I am so looking forward to this interview with author Brad Taylor. Let me start

with something a little provocative for all of you to kind of think about. I thought about this

myself. At this stage in life, certainly in my life, none of us need cardboard heroes. We want

characters who carry consequence. That's why Pike Logan works. He isn't

polished, per se. He isn't tidy. He isn't the kind of hero who lets us sit back and feel comfortable.

Pike Logan is wounded, he's disciplined, he's relentless, and sometimes unsettling, and that's precisely why he feels so true.

Because by the time you've lived a little, and you all know this, the people who stand between order and chaos rarely come through untouched.

Duty leaves a mark. Service leaves a mark.

Loss leaves a mark. And Brad Taylor writes that truth with hard-earned authority is truth.

Author Brad Taylor served in special forces before becoming one of America's most compelling thriller

writers. And in his new book, Shadow Strike, he sends Pike into a global chase against an old

enemy. You guys will know his name. He's the ghost. With the action moving from Iguazu Falls

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