Silent enemy
When the Afghan National Police training center in Kabul is attacked by jihadists, Major Michael Parson accompanies wounded soldiers on planes bound for Germany only to discover that several of the planes have been sabotaged.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
G. P. Putnam's Sons,
c2011.
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| Summary: | When the Afghan National Police training center in Kabul is attacked by jihadists, Major Michael Parson accompanies wounded soldiers on planes bound for Germany only to discover that several of the planes have been sabotaged. |
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| Physical Description: | 292 p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780399157790 0399157794 |
| 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. |
