02154cam a2200373 i 4500 388537655 TxAuBib 20190807120000.0 190311s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019007191 9780451490414 $27.00 045149041X $27.00 (OCoLC)1057859591 TxAuBib rda Greaney, Mark. Red metal / Mark Greaney and Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV, USMC. First edition. New York, NY : Berkley, 2019. 638 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three rare earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray in Africa, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish female partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon who, along with his German counterpart, fight from behind enemy lines in Germany all the way into Russia. From a daring MiG attack on American satellites, through land and air battles in all theaters, naval battles in the Arabian sea, and small unit fighting down to the hand-to-hand level in the jungle, Russia's forces battle to either take the mines or detonate a nuclear device to prevent the West from exploiting them. 20190807. Imaginary wars and battles. Mines and mineral resources Fiction. Technology and civilization Fiction. Russia Fiction. Political fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) War stories. War fiction. Rawlings, Hunter Ripley, 1971-