Taking advantage of US preoccupation with events in Taiwan and China, Russia believes it can catch the US and NATO sleeping. This plot includes a lightning strike in Europe aimed at the US Africa Command (based near Stuttgart, Germany), an aerial assault on GPS and satellite systems to disrupt communications across Europe, and an invasion of Africa to take back the mine itself. He comes up with a sweeping plot to reclaim this mine for Russia–or to destroy it so no one can use it. The mine was rich in rare earth materials, REMs, which are used in high tech products like computers and cell phones. A Russian colonel is embarrassed by having to abandon a mine in Africa that had been controlled by the Russians. All seems lost until a few unlikely heroes step up? Check. Lots of technical jargon (but not too much)? Check. Hunter Ripley Rawlings, IV, checks all the boxes for exciting, suspenseful, military thrillers. Now a new book, co-authored with retired USMC Lt. Thriller fans will also know him from his “Gray Man” books featuring a former CIA agent who continues to work in the shadows. Ripley Rawlings IVįans of Tom Clancy already know Mark Greaney as one of the authors who has continued his characters in the ongoing Jack Ryan and Jack Ryan, Jr. Book Review: Red Metal, Mark Greaney and H.
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