Publishers Weekly gave starred reviews to The Renegades, Silent Enemy, and The Warriors. The Mullah’s Storm was a Book of the Month Club Thriller of the Month and an Indie Next List Selection. Young’s well-received military adventure novels include The Mullah’s Storm, Silent Enemy, The Renegades, The Warriors, and Sand and Fire. degrees in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In civilian life he spent ten years as a writer and editor with the broadcast division of the Associated Press, and currently he works as an airline pilot based at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. Young retired from the Air Guard in 2013 after more than twenty years of service.

Military honors include the Meritorious Service Medal, three Air Medals, three Aerial Achievement Medals, and the Air Force Combat Action Medal. In all, Young logged nearly 5,000 hours as a flight engineer on the C-5 Galaxy and the C-130 Hercules, while flying to almost forty countries. He has also flown combat missions to Bosnia and Kosovo, and additional missions to Latin America, the horn of Africa, and the Far East. Agent: Michael Carlisle, Inkwell Management.Tom Young served in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Air National Guard. This page-turner offers thrilling action sequences and harrowing plot twists in abundance. With the strikes spreading to North Africa, the three heroes unite with old friends to take out terrorist leader Sadiq Kassam before he carries out his threats to bring chemical warfare to the U.S. Africa Command, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. translator stationed in Libya, while Michael Parson has been promoted to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. As for the series regulars, Sophia Gold now works as a U.N. In the aftermath, Blount-a big man, at almost seven feet tall and 245 pounds-reverses course, rejoining the Marines for another final mission, which might be his most dangerous yet. A day away from retirement, Blount witnesses a brutal chemical weapons attack by enemy jihadists on a nightclub mere steps away from the Sigonella Naval Air Station in Sicily. Blount joins the cast in Young’s gripping fifth military thriller (after 2013’s The Warriors).

Sand and Fire by Tom Young