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The mullah's storm

When their plane is shot down in a blizzard while transporting an important Taliban detainee, navigator Michael Parson and Army interpreter Sergeant Gold fight for survival in the harsh terrain of Afghanistan, where they struggle to outmaneuver terrorists and dubiously trustworthy villagers.

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Main Author: Young, Thomas W., 1962-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010.
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Parson, Michael (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Gold, Sophia (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Soldiers > Fiction.
Afghan War, 2001- > Fiction.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. > Fiction.
Prisoners of war > Fiction.
Taliban > Fiction.
Afghanistan > Fiction.
War stories > Afghanistan.
Adventure fiction > Afghanistan.
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Summary:When their plane is shot down in a blizzard while transporting an important Taliban detainee, navigator Michael Parson and Army interpreter Sergeant Gold fight for survival in the harsh terrain of Afghanistan, where they struggle to outmaneuver terrorists and dubiously trustworthy villagers.
Physical Description:278 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780399156922
0399156925
Author Notes:Tom Young has logged nearly 4,000 hours as a flight engineer for the Air National Guard in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, and elsewhere, including Latin America, the Horn of Africa, and the Far East. Military honors include two Air Medals, three Aerial Achievement Medals, and the Air Force Combat Action Medal. He continues to serve with the Air National Guard as a Senior Master Sergeant.

He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and studied writing there and at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, among other places. He is also the author of the oral history The Speed of Heat: An Airlift Wing at War in Iraq and Afghanistan , and contributed to the anthology Operation Homecoming , edited by Andrew Carroll. Young lives in Alexandria, Virginia.


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