Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science.

Operation Red Metal is a nightmare scenario made real but could it just be the first move on the Russian chessboard? Ranged against the Russian attack are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray, 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, struggle to keep a small group of American and German tanks in the fight. It's all part of a master plan to confuse and defeat America and her allies.

Satellite killing missiles blind American forces while Spetznatz teams destroy Allied communications relays. Their tanks race across Poland crushing all opposition on a headlong dash for the heart of Germany. A stunningly realistic view of modern warfare from a battlefield commander and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man.

Author tour.A Russian military strike against Europe could change the balance of power in the West. This is powerful material, required reading for anyone interested in modern warfare. As in the best of this genre, there are no cartoon villains, just dedicated warriors who are given a mission and are determined to carry it out. The various battles fought on land, sea, and in the air are exciting, realistic, and technically detailed, complete with the high emotions experienced by the combatants. The Russian president approves, and Red Metal is on. Borbikov proposes a Russian raid into Europe to destroy America's Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and a simultaneous attack to retake the mine. Yuri Borbikov, the Russian special forces commander who was in charge of the mine, draws up a plan, Operation Red Metal. Several years after the Russians lose control of a rare earth mine in Kenya, Col. Bestseller Greaney (the Gray Man series) and Rawlings, a Marine lieutenant colonel, closely follow more than a score of characters in this outstanding near-future military action thriller.

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