Is it inspired by a particular incident, or is it more of a what-could-happen scenario based on your military experience? In SAND AND FIRE, you envision a troop situation that seems real and familiar. With the book due in stores and online outlets in July, Young, who logged nearly five thousand hours as a flight engineer for the Air National Guard in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia, and elsewhere, answered a few questions about his new protagonist Blount, the realism of his stories, and events unfolding in the Middle East today. A rescue must be mounted for the Marines, and an unforgettable ordeal is ahead with the threat of a nightmarish outcome looming. Blount, the six-foot-eight grandson of one of the first African American Marines. In this tale, heroes from previous books, Sophia Gold, now with the U.N., and Colonel Michael Parson, now working the United States Africa Command, join Gunnery Sgt. As in previous books-which include THE MULLAH’S STORM, SILENT ENEMY, THE RENEGADES, and THE WARRIORS -he offers a look inside a region and a world that continues to be a focus of international concern.
The novel’s realistic tensions comes from former Associated Press journalist and retired senior master sergeant Young, who’s familiar with the world of which he writes. After inflicting casualties and destruction on a nightclub in Sicily and a crowded street in Gibraltar, the terrorist seizes members of a Marine strike force and threatens executions unless forces withdraw from his area. In SAND AND FIRE, a Marine gunnery sergeant faces the jihadist in North Africa who has obtained chemical weapons.
Tom Young’s new novel offers a situation that sounds as real as a news broadcast. Soldiers and diplomats struggling for a resolution. Jihadist holding Marines threatens to kill a prisoner a day. Chemical weapon attacks on international sites.
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