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The Mullah's Storm
Author: Thomas W. Young
Publisher: Putnam
Release date: Sept. 7, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0399156922
List price: $25.95
Author website: www.thomaswyoung.com
Description:
A U.S. Air Force transport plane takes off from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, carrying a high-value Taliban detainee bound for prison and interrogation. Insurgents shoot down the plane with a shoulder-launched missile, and it crash lands in the Hindu Kush mountains. A strong winter storm makes a rescue impossible. A surviving crew member, navigator Michael Parson, along with a female Army interpreter, must now evade capture in hostile territory with a prisoner who would like very much for them to get caught. A battle for survival begins across some of the most forbidding terrain on earth.
Advance Praise:
“Explosive! A gutsy, gritty thriller told only as one who’s been there and done that could write it. You will long remember this terrifying, timely tale – and its terrific new writer.”
–W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV, authors, The Corps series, The Brotherhood of War series, Badge of Honor series, Men at War series
“Courage and honor in the face of the enemy have not been so brilliantly portrayed since the great novels of the Second World War. I would recommend Thomas Young’s magnificent novel to anybody.”
–Jack Higgins, author, The Eagle Has Landed, A Prayer for the Dying, First Strike
“Gripping and impressively authentic.”
–Frederick Forsyth, author, The Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol
Author bio:
Thomas W. Young served in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Air National Guard. He has also flown combat missions to Bosnia and Kosovo, and additional missions to Latin America, the horn of Africa, and the Far East. In all, Young has logged almost four thousand hours as a flight engineer on the C-5 Galaxy and the C-130 Hercules, while flying to almost forty countries. Military honors include two Air Medals, three Aerial Achievement Medals, and the Air Force Combat Action Medal.
In civilian life he spent ten years as a writer and editor with the broadcast division of the Associated Press, and flew as a first officer for Independence Air, an airline based at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. Young holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Mullah's Storm is Young's first significant work of fiction. His nonfiction publications include The Speed of Heat: An Airlift Wing at War in Iraq and Afghanistan, released in 2008 by McFarland and Company. His narrative, "Night Flight to Baghdad," appeared in the Random House anthology, Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families.
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