We carried tons of Meals Ready to Eat to Marines who had pushed north from their line of departure at the Kuwait border. In the first days of the Iraq War, my Air National Guard crewmates and I flew a C-130 Hercules to an airfield in Numaniyah, southeast of Baghdad. “A realistic, engaging, action-filled novel.”īackstory: The Story Behind Sand and Fire Military-thriller fans should make Young’s work an essential addition to their reading lists.” “Young has a gift for allowing the reader to experience the emotional aspects of being a soldier and for describing the desolation of the desert countries our troops are patrolling. There are, nonetheless, hearty helpings of realistic shootouts and fistfights.”
“Rather than relying on crude violence and gratuitous action scenes, Young takes the time to offer the reader a window into the deliberative process of these military men and women of action. “This page-turner offers thrilling action sequences and harrowing plot twists in abundance.” Soon they will all be fighting for their lives in the sand and fire of the desert. Immediately, Blount’s friends and colleagues Sophia Gold, now with the U.N., and Colonel Michael Parson, working for the United States Africa Command, rush to Libya to help coordinate rescue efforts. Several Marines are killed, some are captured, and the jihadist promises that unless forces withdraw, he will execute one prisoner a day. Blount, at six-foot-eight a formidable warrior, the grandson of one of the first black Marines, sets out with a strike force to kill or capture the terrorist.īut it’s a trap. Acting on information, Marine gunnery sergeant A. A jihadist leader has seized a supply of chemical weapons and is wreaking havoc: a nightclub in Sicily, a packed street in Gibraltar. Buy the Book: Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound
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