Red Metal
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About this book
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III. 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 three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the worlds 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 Russias forces battle to either take the mines or detonate a nuclear device to prevent the West from exploiting them.
