Red Metal
A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy a Rare Earth mineral mine that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world’s hi-tech sector.
Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray in Africa, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish female partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the captain of an American tank platoon who, along with a German sergeant, fight from behind enemy lines in Germany all the way into Russia.
From a daring MiG attack on American satellites, through land and air battles in all theaters, naval battles in the Arabian sea, and small unit fighting down to the hand-to-hand level in the jungle, Russia’s forces battle to either take the mines or detonate a nuclear device to prevent the West from exploiting them.
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Mark Greaney
Long before The Gray Man was a global bestseller—or a Netflix action juggernaut—Mark Greaney was immersed in the world of shadows, diplomacy, and high-stakes espionage. What sets him apart isn’t just the precision of his plots or the grit of his protagonists—it’s his ability to make readers feel the tension of a sniper’s breath, the pulse of a tail through foreign streets, the weight of impossible decisions in murky moral terrain.
Greaney didn’t stumble into the thriller world; he stormed into it, notebook in hand and adrenaline in his blood. Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, he studied international relations and political science—fields that now pulse beneath the surface of his fiction. He took those early academic roots and grew them into stories that feel frighteningly plausible, weaving real-world geopolitics with explosive action. It's no wonder Tom Clancy's estate tapped him to co-write (and eventually continue solo) the Jack Ryan universe—a handoff that could’ve gone wrong in less capable hands but flourished under Greaney’s.
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