The Hunters (A Parson and Gold Novel)

Author: Young, Tom

Number Of Pages: 352

Details:

A remarkable military thriller from one of the most acclaimed new suspense writers in years—“a triumph of the fiction of contemporary warfare” (Alan Cheuse, The Dallas Morning News).   Khatar. It's a Somali word for 'dangerous,' and it's one that Colonel Michael Parson has heard too often on his present mission. His friend Sophia Gold has talked him into using his leave from the Air Force to fly relief supplies into Somalia in an antique DC-3 cargo plane. Somalia is infested with armed clans, pirates, poverty, and, increasingly, terrorism. Parson and Gold are about to face all of them firsthand. An al-Shabaab leader called The Sheikh has declared all aid a sin against God, and he launches attacks against planes and convoys to stop it. If that weren't bad enough, a Hollywood actress and activist has flown into Somalia to make a documentary, and, as far as Parson is concerned, she might as well paint targets on their backs. The mission becomes even more complicated when they encounter a wounded teenage al-Shabaab fighter, who might be seeking asylum--or a chance to kill. Not even Parson knows just how  khatar his mission of mercy will become.

Reviews:

Praise for Sand and Fire  

“Easily the author’s best novel to date. Military thriller fans should make Young’s work an essential addition to their reading lists.” —Booklist (starred review)  

“Gripping . . . This page-turner offers thrilling action sequences and harrowing plot twists in abundance.”

— Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Tom Young is the author of six novels including  The Mullah’s Storm, Silent Enemy, The Renegades,  The Warriors, Sand and Fire, and  The Hunters, the  Sand and Fire e-book special  Phantom Fury, and the oral history  The Speed of Heat: An Airlift Wing at War in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also contributed to the anthology  Operation Homecoming, edited by Andrew Carroll. Young retired from the Air National Guard in 2013 at the rank of senior master sergeant. He served more than 20 years as a flight engineer on the C-130 Hercules and the C-5 Galaxy, logging nearly 5,000 hours of flight time. His career included service in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, the horn of Africa, and elsewhere. Military honors include the Meritorious Service Medal, three Air Medals, three Aerial Achievement Medals, and the Air Force Combat Action Medal. Young holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and studied writing there and at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, among other places. He He lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. CHAPTER ONE   Hunger. Rage. Fourteen-year-old Hussein felt little else as he rode in the back of a Nissan pickup truck along a dirt road south of Mogadishu. Five fellow al-Shabaab fighters traveled with him in the truck bed. One manned a Kord 12.7-millimeter machine gun bolted near the tailgate, and the rest brandished AK-47s. Hussein’s entire worldly possessions consisted of his AK, his sandals, a dirty cotton shirt and trousers, and the machete hanging from a rope belt in a leather sheath. For a promised piece of fruit every day, Hussein had become a soldier of God. The older men had yet to give him his daily tangerine; rewards would come later if he and his brothers in jihad performed this mission well. Along with the fruit, he hoped to get a bowl of onion and potato soup. Just like yesterday and the day before that. His mouth still watered when he remembered that day last week when the men fed him fried goat meat. Such feasts came rarely for the young soldiers of God. Al-Shabaab, or “The Youth,” faced many hardships inflicted by the infidels. These gaalos, the unbelieving foreigners, brought hunger, the death of parents and friends, and so-called medicine that only made diseases worse. But today, the unbelievers would feel God’s wrath. The truck slowed and stopped at a crossroads. Dust kicked up by the Nissan’s tires rolled in cloud...

EAN: 9780399166891

Release Date: 07-07-2015

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Hardcover Used - Like New Ships fast! 2015

Item Condition: UsedLikeNew

Binding: Hardcover